With respect to the second chief peculiarity, namely, the little mass of viscid matter attached to the end of the caudicle, a long series of gradations can be specified, each of plain service to the plant.
— 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

Je pense que le web (contrairement au système vieillot du courrier électronique textuel) peut permettre de combiner avec succès la transmission des informations par différents canaux (ou moyens), même si ce processus n'est que partiellement satisfaisant pour chacun des canaux pris isolément.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The twice-born sages, whose delight Was Scripture's page and holy rite, Their calm and settled course pursued, Nor sought the menial multitude.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then, tumbled out of the cars without ceremony, they were no better off than before; they stood staring down the vista of Dearborn Street, with its big black buildings towering in the distance, unable to realize that they had arrived, and why, when they said “Chicago,” people no longer pointed in some direction, but instead looked perplexed, or laughed, or went on without paying any attention.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Sometimes when some outrage of peculiar offensiveness stung her to the heart, she would plan schemes of vengeance and revel in the fancied spectacle of his exposure to the 64 world as an imposter and a slave; but in the midst of these joys fear would strike her: she had made him too strong; she could prove nothing, and—heavens, she might get sold down the river for her pains!
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

No bouquets came now; no graceful little notes with books or invitations to some coveted pleasure; no dangerously delightful evenings in the recess, where, for a time, she felt and used the power which to a woman is so full of subtle satisfaction; no bitter-sweet hopes; no exciting dreams of what might be with the utterance of a word; no soft uncertainty to give a charm to every hour that passed.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Another let or hindrance is strict and severe discipline, laws and rigorous customs, that forbid men to marry at set times, and in some places; as apprentices, servants, collegiates, states of lives in copyholds, or in some base inferior offices, [5896] Velle licet in such cases, potiri non licet , as he said.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The study of the principles of strategy can produce no valuable practical results if we do nothing more than keep them in remembrance, never trying to apply them, with map in hand, to hypothetical wars, or to the brilliant operations of great captains.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

V ARIANTS : Catalogación por orden alfabético , alphabetical filing ; catalogación por asuntos , filing by subjects ; catalogación por numeración consecutiva , filing by serial number .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ned , S; need , C2; neid , B; nedes , pl. , S2, PP; nede , adv. , necessarily, S, C2, PP; nedes , needs, of necessity, S2, C, PP; nedis , W; neodes , S2, PP; needely , C; nedelich , W. Der. : nedful , needy, necessary, S; nedfol , S2, PP; neodful , S, PP; needles , needlessly, C2; neidwais , of necessity, S2, B.—OMerc. néd (VP), AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I have information from Algiers, of the 5th of June, that the plague is raging there with great violence; that one of our captives was dead of it, and another ill, so that we have there, in all, now, only fifteen or sixteen; that the captives are more exposed to its ravages than others; that the great redemptions by the Spaniards, Portuguese and Neapolitans, and the havoc made by the plague, had now left not more than four hundred slaves in Algiers; so 464 that their redemption was become not only exorbitant, but almost inadmissible; that common sailors were held at four hundred pounds sterling, and that our fifteen or sixteen could probably not be redeemed for less than from twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

ou sete que elles são, quada hum per si tinha o nome proprio per que nesta scriptura os nomeamos, posto que ao presente todos se chamão per nome commum os ilheos d'Arguim ; por causa de huma fortaleza que el Rei D. Affonso mandou fundar em hum delles chamado Arguim."
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

She knew exactly what was the matter with Samuel: a severe cough persistently neglected, no more.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

The incident is handled so carelessly (Proteus not being Thurio's friend) that it seems to me to have no importance save as a mere coincidence.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

A truck farm or a small country place near town, which may have either fallen to you by inheritance or which you may have purchased, or which you have for kennels or for your horses, can also be used for entertaining.
— from The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men by Walter Germain

I succeeded in eliciting some curious points not yet recorded, which, with the details of an interesting discovery made in the far north in this formation, I may be perhaps able to weave into a chapter somewhat more geological than my last.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

As she could produce no associations to the hat, I said to her: "The hat is really a male genital, with its raised middle piece and the two downward hanging side pieces."
— from Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

Midway Islands about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC Moldova slightly larger than Maryland Monaco about three times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC Mongolia slightly smaller than Alaska Montserrat about 0.6 times the size of Washington, DC Morocco slightly larger than California Mozambique slightly less than twice the size of California Namibia slightly more than half the size of Alaska Nauru about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC Navassa Island about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC Nepal slightly larger than Arkansas Netherlands slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey Netherlands Antilles more than five times the size of Washington, DC New Caledonia slightly smaller than New Jersey New Zealand about the size of Colorado Nicaragua slightly smaller than the state of New York Niger slightly less than twice the size of Texas Nigeria slightly more than twice the size of California Niue 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Norfolk Island about 0.2 times the size of Washington, DC Northern Mariana Islands 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC Norway slightly larger than New Mexico Oman slightly smaller than Kansas Pacific Ocean about 15 times the size of the US; covers about 28% of the global surface; larger than the total land area of the world Pakistan slightly less than twice the size of California Palau slightly more than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC Palmyra Atoll about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC Panama slightly smaller than South Carolina Papua New Guinea slightly larger than California Paracel Islands NA Paraguay slightly smaller than California Peru slightly smaller than Alaska Philippines slightly larger than Arizona Pitcairn Islands about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC Poland slightly smaller than New Mexico Portugal slightly smaller than Indiana Puerto Rico slightly less than t
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[170] For the first half of the sixteenth century probably no state in the world possesses a document like the magnificent description of Florence by Varchi.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

The faces of all three were very grave, and Wahneenah, who had come across to nurse a sick child, paid no heed to its fretful calls for her.
— from The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond