The water's own noises, too, were more apparent than by day, its gurglings and "cloops" more unexpected and near at hand; and constantly they started at what seemed a sudden clear call from an actual articulate voice.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

As we swung around the Emerald Isle, I spotted Cape Clear for an instant, plus the lighthouse on Fastnet Rock that guides all those thousands of ships setting out from Glasgow or Liverpool.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When the storm of persecution ceased, the faithful Christians, who, during the time of danger, had hidden themselves in woods and deserts and secret caves, came forth and rebuilt the churches which had been levelled to the ground; founded, erected, and finished the cathedrals raised in honour of the holy martyrs, and, as if displaying their conquering standards in all places, celebrated festivals and performed their sacred rites with pure hearts and lips.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

7. Earl's Coronet (Garter): Quarterly of six, 1. gules, on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée argent, an inescutcheon or
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Species " only expresses the fact that an abundance of similar creatures come forth at the same time, and that the speed of their further growth and of their [Pg 36] further transformation has been made almost imperceptible for a long time: so that the actual and trivial changes and increase of growth are of no account at all (—a stage of evolution in which the process of evolving is not visible, so that, not only does a state of equilibrium seem to have been reached, but the road is also made clear for the error of supposing that an actual goal has been reached —and that evolution had a goal...).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

— B. Vicuña Subercasseaux ( Chileno ) Chapter Footnotes: [A]
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If, unfortunately, the fly has got caught in the net, the spider can come forth and talk business upon its own terms.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Finally, his chair being deep and softly cushioned, Clifford fell asleep.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His grace’s fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advised him, “Live like me.”
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

A call has been signed by the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, for a meeting at Topeka on the 15th, to pledge the party to that single issue.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But I'll never believe that she can care for a fellow like that.
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

909-13 February 914-17 March 918-21 April 922-25 May 926-29 June 930-33 July 934-36 August 937-39 September 940-42 October 943-45 November 946-48 December 949-52 ball supper for 60 persons p. 957 ball supper, cold collation, for a summer entertainment for 70 or 80 persons p. 958 breakfasts 959 game dinner for 30 persons p.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

All the lowest animal and vegetable forms— Protozoa and Protophyta —consist essentially of a single cell containing fluid, and having usually a solid nucleus.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

It was not possible that so much smoke could come from a charcoal kiln.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

I had long looked forward and suffered in imagination the pain of this anticipated separation; but I had not tasted of its realities , and none but those who have parted with a family under similar circumstances, can form any just conception of the depth and power of the emotions which pervaded my breast on that occasion.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

She did not at once see Dot, but a boy was selling cheap candies from a basket, and Tess was smitten with the thought that she had forgotten Aunt Sarah!
— from The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill