A little reflection will explain why along the rising coast of the western side of South America, no extensive formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the supply of sediment must for ages have been great, from the enormous degradation of the coast-rocks and from muddy streams entering the sea.
— 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

The ladies treat with tea in their turns; and even girls of sixteen are not exempted from this shameful imposition—There is a public ball by subscription every night at one of the houses, to which all the company from the others are admitted by tickets; and, indeed, Harrigate treads upon the heels of Bath, in the articles of gaiety and dissipation—with this difference, however, that here we are more sociable and familiar.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Miss Manette!” Perfectly still and silent, and not even fallen back in her chair, she sat under his hand, utterly insensible; with her eyes open and fixed upon him, and with that last expression looking as if it were carved or branded into her forehead.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

She, wanting strength, and now expiring, forced herself to utter these few words: “‘I suppliantly beseech thee, by the ties of our marriage, and by the Gods above, and my own Gods, and if I have deserved anything well of thee, by that as well , and by the cause of my death, my love even now enduring, while I am perishing, do not allow the Nymph Aura [ breeze ] to share with thee my marriage ties.’
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

A little reflection will explain why, along the rising coast of the western side of South America, no extensive formations with recent or tertiary remains can anywhere be found, though the supply of sediment must for ages have been great, from the enormous degradation of the coast rocks and from the muddy streams entering the sea.
— 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

She looked on Abraham's sacrifice as natural enough, for she herself would not have hesitated to kill both father and mother if she had received a divine order to that effect; and nothing, in her opinion, could displease our Lord, provided the motive were praiseworthy.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A vizio di lussuria fu si` rotta, che libito fe' licito in sua legge, per torre il biasmo in che era condotta. Ell'e` Semiramis, di cui si legge che succedette a Nino e fu sua sposa: tenne la terra che 'l Soldan corregge.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It grows around the houses like shade trees or flowering shrubs, and nearly every family cultivates a small patch.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Verily, verily, I say unto you, woe be unto him that lieth to deceive because he supposeth that another lieth to deceive, for such are not exempt from the justice of God.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

"No country can boast of a richer collection of Ballads than Scotland, and no Editor for these Ballads could be found more accomplished than Professor Aytoun.
— from Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon by William Blackwood and Sons

I well remember having once walked through them on a summer evening, when the sunshine was casting a chequered glow through the oaks and beeches—such scenes are not easily forgotten.
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

On the site of this building, anciently called the 'Long Shop,' are now erected four shops, with rooms over them."
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

But—with such a new, exciting "friendship" for Brian's prop, it seems as if, for me—Othello's occupation would be gone!
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

For the rest, they must depend as you and I did, on their own Industry and Care: as what remains in our Hands will be barely sufficient for our Support, and not enough for them when it comes to be divided at our Decease.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

It said: "A novel Exhibition, for which we venture to [Pg 7] prophesy no little success, is being prepared by Harry Furniss of Punch celebrity.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss