Every plant, whether an alga or a flowering plant passes, under natural conditions, through a series of developmental stages characteristic of each species, and these consist in a regular sequence of definite forms.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

They require neither penning up nor cramming to acquire plumpness, and if well fed should be fit for market in eight or ten weeks.
— from Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

The colonists were a hardy, a stubborn, and a high-minded people, well fitted to battle with the elements and the Indians, and to preserve, under new conditions, the austere standard of morality which led them to look for liberty across the sea.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy