But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects.
— 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

Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Aspirants to a philosophic religion turn, as a rule, more hopefully nowadays towards idealistic pantheism than towards the older dualistic theism, in spite of the fact that the latter still counts able defenders.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

"Da che tu vuo' saver cotanto a dentro, dirotti brievemente", mi rispuose, "perch'io non temo di venir qua entro.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

si contingat a daemonio, sufficit nobis ut convertat complexionem ad choleram nigram, et sit causa ejus propinqua cholera nigra ; the immediate cause is choler adust, which [1245] Pomponatius likewise labours to make good: Galgerandus of Mantua, a famous physician, so cured a demoniacal woman in his time, that spake all languages, by purging black choler, and thereupon belike this humour of melancholy is called balneum diaboli , the devil's bath; the devil spying his opportunity of such humours drives them many times to despair, fury, rage, &c., mingling himself among these humours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

whose bald head Totty, seated in her small chair at Dinah's side, was caressing and pressing to her fat cheek with much fervour.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

She had answered all the questions she could and done all the prose work.
— from Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill

In spite of my warning, my son cut a dozen or more of the largest canes, and stripping them of their leaves, carried them under his arm.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

The storm ceased at dawn of day.
— from The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne

It is common to the markets of most of the large seaport cities; and, during the winter and spring, is shipped in large quantities to the interior and more southern sections of the United States.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

"I'd sooner claw a dog that hadn't been washed for years.
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss

Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipitation, that fifty feet up in the air, on the roofs and upper stories of high houses and on great trees, there was a chance of escaping its poison altogether, as was proved even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A slight cough, a deeper rose upon the cheek, and a brighter fire in the eye, were almost its only indications.
— from Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

Her hands were tied by her mother's policy, and she sat moping and chafing like a chained captive, waiting till Mr. Van Dam should come and deliver her from as vile durance as was ever suffered in the moss-grown castles of the old world.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe