But I shall attempt no description of Rome.
— from Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister

It follows from these figures that by the end of the sixth month the weight of the brain is already very nearly doubled; but the maximum growth takes place between the ages of one month and three, after which it shows a notable diminution of rate.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

My Sundays are not days of rest....
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

The voyage to Isenland was long, but no peril of wind or weather followed the ship, and no dangers of rocks and shoals marred the pleasure of the journey, or hindered the good ship’s speed.
— from Stories from Northern Myths by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

Proechimys —main fold shallow: aristiforms not developed on rump and outer thighs; tail less than 75 per cent of length of head and body; groove for transmission of nerve present in infraorbital foramen of several subspecies; molariform teeth increasing in size from premolar to second molar; 2 to 5 counterfolds in molariform teeth.
— from Speciation in the Brazilian Spiny Rats by João Moojen

Fruit medium, oblate; skin rough, yellowish, some stains and numerous dots of russet; flesh yellowish, coarse, wanting in juice; Nov. Hammelsbirne.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

No; the peasant was always receiving from the soil, and never dreaming of restoring anything; acquainted with no manure but that of his two cows and his horse, of which he was very thrifty.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

Among the people there needs to be developed a better conscience as to the sanctity of an oath, and the sacred majesty and divine authority of law that knows no conditions of society and no distinctions of race.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 1, January, 1887 by Various

I yielded, and married Sackvil, and never dreamed of regretting the step.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

XV, p. 800: "But this artistic completeness was closely connected with 'the third cardinal virtue' of Hippocratic medicine—the clear recognition of disease as being equally with life a process governed by what we should now call natural laws, which could be known by observation and which indicated the spontaneous and normal direction of recovery, by following which alone could the physician succeed.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr