There are certain hybrids which instead of having, as is usual, an intermediate character between their two parents, always closely resemble one of them; and such hybrids, though externally so like one of their pure parent-species, are with rare exceptions extremely sterile.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

This theory does not, in my view, account adequately for the actual results of the faculty of moral judgment and reasoning, so far as I can examine them by reflection on my own moral consciousness: for this, as I have before said, does not yield any apparent intuitions that stand the test of rigorous examination except such as, from their abstract and general character, have no cognisable relation to particular experiences of any kind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

SYN: Urge, compel, require, exact, exert, strain.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[66] los trabajos ya realizados en el San Juan, por el lado del Atlántico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Not counting the large ruby or the large sapphire, this crown Page 361 {361} contains: Four rubies, eleven emeralds, sixteen sapphires, 277 pearls, 2783 diamonds.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Mi sobrino, por una serie de fatalidades, que son otras tantas pruebas de los males pasajeros que a veces permite Dios para nuestro castigo, equivale a un ejército, equivale a la 181 autoridad del Gobierno, equivale al alcalde, equivale al juez; mi sobrino no es mi sobrino; es la nación oficial, Remedios; es esa segunda nación, compuesta de los perdidos que gobiernan en Madrid, y que se ha hecho dueña de la fuerza material; de esa nación aparente, porque la real 5 es la que calla, paga y sufre; de esa nación ficticia que firma al pie de los decretos y pronuncia discursos y hace una farsa de gobierno y una farsa de autoridad
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

There are certain hybrids which, instead of having, as is usual, an intermediate character between their two parents, always closely resemble one of them; and such hybrids, though externally so like one of their pure parent-species, are with rare exceptions extremely sterile.
— 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

Note 37 ( return ) [ Totam illam veterem et squalentem sylvam legum novis principalium rescriptorum et edictorum securibus truncatis et caeditis; (Apologet. c. 4, p. 50, edit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This was a surprise; for the hour was late, and in that part of the country people were accustomed to retire early, even such busy men as the Judge.
— from The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green

Urge unrelaxing vigilance redoubled efforts ensure success six year plan praying Almighty’s blessings guidance mighty undertakings.
— from Dawn of a New Day by Effendi Shoghi

“Who says ‘furgive?’” she said, with her restless, eager eyes searching the room as if for something long expected—“who says ‘furgive?’”
— from Virginia of Virginia: A Story by Amélie Rives

How the French peasants stared, open-mouthed, as the service proceeded, wondering at our madness as we stood there in the sand-pit, with a misty rain enveloping everything, singing at the top of our voices.
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze

W. Moore, Rev. J. E. Moorland, Prof. H. C. Morgan, A.M., Rev. H. H. Proctor, Miss Jennie A. Robinson, Rev. E. E. Scott, Rev. A. K. Spence, A.M., Miss Mary A. Spence, A.M., Rev. E. C. Stickel, A.M., Mrs. Luretta C. Stickel, B.L., Miss Birdie M. Wills, Miss Elnora M. Winter, Prof. H. H. Wright, A.M. Pine Bluff.—Mr.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 02, February, 1895 by Various

"Say, if you haven't got room enough," Eliza said in a thin high voice, "I can move over to the other side of the car."
— from Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall; Or, Leading a Needed Rebellion by Janet D. Wheeler

“In large retail establishments every salesman keeps a book in which his sales are entered.
— from The Cash Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.