The sutures in the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beautiful adaptation for aiding parturition, and no doubt they facilitate, or may be indispensable for this act; but as sutures occur in the skulls of young birds and reptiles, which have only to escape from a broken egg, we may infer that this structure has arisen from the laws of growth, and has been taken advantage of in the parturition of the higher animals.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The pilgrims are now deep in the hollow cone.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This indisputable happiness of aristocratic culture, based as it is on the feeling of superiority, is now beginning to rise to ever higher levels; for now, thanks to the free spirits, it is henceforth permissible and not dishonourable for people who have been born and reared in aristocratic circles to enter the domain of knowledge, where they may secure more intellectual consecrations and learn chivalric services even higher than those of former times, and where they may look up to that ideal of victorious wisdom which as yet no age has been able to set before itself with so good a
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Esa planta proporciona al natural de América un alimento barato, sano y fácil de preparar.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—No lo digo sólo por eso, sino porque estos garrapatos no 05 se parecen a ninguno de los que he visto hacer a gente cristiana.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Il m'est par ailleurs nécessaire d'effectuer une veille internet: la connaissance des produits et des pratiques liés à l'internet sont indispensables dans le cadre de mon activité.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

disaster Major problems, accidents & natural disasters.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

We made careful note of the place, and next day I drew four plans, one for each of us, and put the sign of the four of us at the bottom, for we had sworn that we should each always act for all, so that none might take advantage.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then I was right in saying that a man may do what seems good to him in a state, and not have great power, and not do what he wills? POLUS:
— from Gorgias by Plato

But they were a reconnoitring party, and next day about four in the afternoon they noticed a vessel propelled by sails and oars steering straight for them, as if in the intention of running them down.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

I am not sure that any satisfactory progress can be made toward these results, until our good men with unanimity cease regarding politics as necessarily debasing, and by active participation shall displace the selfish and unworthy who, when uninterrupted, control party operations.
— from Presidential Problems by Grover Cleveland

It is my intention to trace in the poetry of England of the first decades of this century, the course of the strong, deep, pregnant current in the intellectual life of the country, which, sweeping away the classic forms and conventions, produces a Naturalism dominating the whole of literature, which from Naturalism leads to Radicalism, from revolt against traditional convention in literature to vigorous rebellion against religious and political reaction, and which bears in its bosom the germs of all the liberal ideas and emancipatory achievements of the later periods of European civilisation.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

The Poodle bitch makes a good mother, rarely giving trouble in whelping, and the puppies are not difficult to re
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

You are not difficult to please, Although no doubt a trifle "knobby;" Whilst I'm reclining at mine ease, I leave you standing in the lobby.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890 by Various

The great merit of Cervantes is not that he founded or perfected a national dramatic school.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Rose will be much prettier, and no doubt have lovers in plenty.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

But till that ripened moment, not a sheaf Of arrows should be wasted, not a brave Should perish aimlessly, nor discord reign Amongst our tribes, nor jealousy distrain The large effects of valour.
— from Tecumseh : a Drama by Charles Mair

‘I must go at the end of next week,’ Paul answered, not daring to look at him, ‘and I must go for good.’
— from Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

9 and 10 ) has a close connection with such churches as those of Perigord and Notre Dame-du-Puy.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward