I went to the professor of Physics in the University I then attended, and I told him it was a fraud, a huge book of mere nonsense.
— from The Coming of the Ice by Green Peyton

But what was donned voluntarily, in a holiday spirit, forty-eight hours ago, will have to be branded on every one's person in the universe in three and a half years time—or less—or else the refuser of the degradation will have to seal his or her loyalty to God by their life.
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

His place in the universe is to answer your bell, and from your point of view he should only exist by intermission.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

A moment later the pigeon is tossed up into the air, and we witness the working of that mysterious instinct which all our modern science leaves unexplained.
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

[131] , which the country afterwards acquired: but the idea which it properly indicates to us, is, that Argos which had been settled by the Pelasgians .
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

So simple a discovery as this, and determination to put it to use, is the Abenaki’s stock-in-trade.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

Of the water which thus falls upon cultivated fields, a part runs away into the streams, either upon the surface, or by percolation through the soil; a part is taken up into the air by evaporation, while a very small proportion enters into the constitution of vegetation.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French