From these facts; from the great difficulty of ascertaining the infertility of varieties in a state of nature, for a supposed variety if infertile in any degree would generally be ranked as species; from man selecting only external characters in the production of the most distinct domestic varieties, and from not wishing or being able to produce recondite and functional differences in the reproductive system; from these several considerations and facts, I do not think that the very general fertility of varieties can be proved to be of universal occurrence, or to form a fundamental distinction between varieties and species.
— 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

Concerning the Women If our highly pointed Triangles of the Soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our Women.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

We all got in a big room in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the new couple.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The blue crested Corvus and the small white breasted do have been previously discribed and are the natives of a piney country invariably, being found as well on the rocky mountains as on this coast.—the lark is found in the plains only and are the same with those before mentioned on the Missouri, and not very unlike what is called in Virginia the old field lark.—The large bluefish brown or sandhill Crain are found in the valley of the Rocky mountains in Summer and Autumn where they raise their young, and in the winter and begining of spring on this river below tidewater and on this coast.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One day she took some clay and fashioned it into the likeness of what is now the crocodile.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Adv. strongly &c. adj.; fortiter in re[Lat]; with telling effect.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

It is a symbol of purity, and it derives this symbolism from its color, white being symbolic of purity; from its material, the lamb having the same symbolic character; and from its use, which is to preserve the garments clean.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

It was—Melisande in the wood—one of Sinding's haunting melodies, an old Saga caught and fixed in color and carving.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

We are now prepared to understand the use of the marginal spikes, which form so conspicuous a feature in the appearance of the plant (fig.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

Since Christ, and faith in him are denied, and almost wholly extirpated by an ungodly life, what shall his doctrine profit us?
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

As they draw out their hair into small cords a foot in length, and entwine the inner bark of a certain tree round each separate cord, and dye this substance of a reddish color, many of them put me in mind of the ancient Egyptians.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

If he did not put it quite so crudely as Fanny in her disagreeable irony, his problem resolved itself into this: How to divide the work and yet rake in all the credit?
— from Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair

It is, in fact, the Gospel story, with only such changes as fit it for continuous presentation.
— from The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by David Starr Jordan

The second shell passed through the hen house, scattering chickens and feathers in all directions, and continuing on its course, burst in the rear of the fleeing rebels.
— from The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers by David Lathrop