For Alpine species, excepting in so far as the same forms, chiefly of plants, have spread widely throughout the world during the recent Glacial epoch, are related to those of the surrounding lowlands;—thus we have in South America, Alpine humming-birds, Alpine rodents, Alpine plants, etc., all of strictly American forms, and it is obvious that a mountain, as it became slowly upheaved, would naturally be colonised from the surrounding lowlands.
— 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

"Stroll quietly down to Toad Hall?" cried the Rat, greatly excited.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Mich dräng'st den Grundtext aufzuschlagen, / Mit redlichem Gefühl einmal / Das heilige Original /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He appeared to be serenely happy, albeit there was an infantine gravity about him, a contemplative light in his round gray eyes, that sometimes worried Stumpy.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

If you are really good enough to wish to do me a favor, I beg that you will become his friend.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

But harder still, to my fancy, would it be to live on, green in the leaf and fair, but dead and rotten at the core, and feel that other secret worm of recollection gnawing ever at the heart.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The Canadian and I sat him up; we massaged his contracted arms, and when he regained his five senses, that eternal classifier mumbled in a broken voice: "Class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, suborder Selacia , family Rajiiforma , genus electric ray ."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

By a substantive with an adjective habitually agreeing with it, both parts being declined: as, rēs pūblica , the common-weal ; rēs gestae , exploits ; iūs iūrandum , oath ; pecūniae repetundae , money claim .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Earl Ragnvald gave Einar a vessel completely equipped, and he sailed with it into the West sea in harvest.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Wherefore it may very well be, and it is thoroughly credible, that we shall in the future world see the material forms of the new heavens and the new earth in such a way that we shall most distinctly recognise God everywhere present and governing all things, material as well as spiritual, and shall see Him, not as now we understand the invisible things of God, by the things which are made, [1046] and see Him darkly, as [Pg 540] in a mirror, and in part, and rather by faith than by bodily vision of material appearances, but by means of the bodies we shall wear and which we shall see wherever we turn our eyes.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If General Brock was justified in giving [Pg 33] these discretionary orders to act offensively as circumstances might require, it follows that he must have considered a similar line of conduct open to himself; and yet, in the face of this statement, the Reviewer gravely endeavours to persuade his readers, that General Brock was in perplexity with regard to the measures which he should pursue.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

At Forrestal's request, Granger explained how he viewed the special adviser's role.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

From year to year fresh boughs appear—it waxes huge in size; And, with wild glee, this prodigy Sir Ranulph grim espies.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

"He likes it so much," replied Granny easily.
— from The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman

Or they would take ears of Indian corn and bury them in wet mud, leaving them thus for two or three months; then the cobs would be removed and the rotted grain eaten with meat and fish, though it was all muddy and smelt horribly.
— from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston

Writing from Oxford, where the first Russian grammar ever published was printed, as your correspondent JARLTZBERG correctly states, perhaps it may interest him, or his friend, who, he says, is about to go to Russia, to be informed (should he not already be aware of the fact) that a "Course of Lectures on Russian Literature" was delivered in this university, by Professor Trithen, at Sir Robert Tayler's Institution, in the winter of 1849.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various

He rose gracefully enough when I was announced; and no sooner had the waiter retired, than he came up to me, shook me warmly by the hand, and said, “Let me thank you now for the attention you formerly shewed me, when I was less able to express my acknowledgments.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron