The difference is that Malthus regards evil in general not as a sort of accident of which we can get rid by reason; but as the essential stimulus which becomes the efficient cause of intellectual activity.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

They are strong, sulphureous, boiling springs, oozing out of a rocky eminence in great numbers, and spreading over an acre of the top of a gentle hill.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

In the northern wilderness, and particularly central Canada, where rabbits exist in great numbers and supply the wants of a large carnivorous population, this plague is well known, and among trappers and woodsmen is a common topic of conversation.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

On arrival in London, De Péchels proceeded to make inquiry amongst his Huguenot friends—who had by that time reached England in great numbers—for his (p. 308) wife, his children, his mother, and his sisters.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

Wild animals, such as lions, bears, wolves, stags, bucks and roes, exist in great numbers; and there are also vast quantities of fowl of every kind.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

As the school was not intended for rudimentary instruction, none were to be admitted who could not read "except in great need," [Pg 168] when the usher should teach it; but "in learning to read much time was not to be spent, for the continual exercise of learning other things should make it perfect."
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

EPILOGUE; At length then have I liberty to yawn—a freedom whereof doubtless my readers have long been liverymen: I have written myself and my inkstand dry as Rosamond's pond; my brain is relieved, recreated, emptied; I go no longer heavily, as one that mourneth; and with gleeful face can I assure you that your author's mind is once again as light as his heart: but when crowding fancies come thick upon it, they bow it, and break it, and weary it, as clouds of pigeons settling gregariously on a trans-Atlantic forest; and when those thronging thoughts are comfortably fixed on paper, one feels, as an apple-tree may be supposed to feel, all the difference between the heavy down-dragging crop of autumn and the winged aërial blossom of sweet spring-tide.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper