How, then, can we explain these several facts in embryology,—namely the very general, but not universal difference in structure between the embryo and the adult;—of parts in the same individual embryo, which ultimately become very unlike and serve for diverse purposes, being at this early period of growth alike;—of embryos of different species within the same class, generally, but not universally, resembling each other;—of the structure of the embryo not being closely related to its conditions of existence, except when the embryo becomes at any period of life active and has to provide for itself;—of the embryo apparently having sometimes a higher organisation than the mature animal, into which it is developed.
— 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

Up, and with my wife and W. Hewer, she set us down at White Hall, where the Duke of York was gone a-hunting: and so, after I had done a little business there, I to my wife, and with her to the plaisterer’s at Charing Cross, that casts heads and bodies in plaister: and there I had my whole face done; but I was vexed first to be forced to daub all my face over with pomatum: but it was pretty to feel how soft and easily it is done on the face, and by and by, by degrees, how hard it becomes, that you cannot break it, and sits so close, that you cannot pull it off, and yet so easy, that it is as soft as a pillow, so safe is everything where many parts of the body do bear alike.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the central figure of the three I recognised the man to whom I had spoken in England, when the Indians appeared on the terrace at Lady Verinder’s house.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The personal pronouns he , she , it , etc., which are necessary in the inflection of the English verb, are not needed in the Latin, because the personal endings take their place.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

To him whose eyes with fury shone, In charge impetuous rushing on, Skilled in each warlike art and plan, Báli with hasty words began: “My ponderous hand, to fight addressed With fingers clenched and arm compressed Shall on thy death doomed brow
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

After a long journey by sea and land, from Venice to Constantinople, the ambassador halted at the golden gate, till he was conducted by the formal officers to the hospitable palace prepared for his reception; but this palace was a prison, and his jealous keepers prohibited all social intercourse either with strangers or natives.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It flows for the most part through a deep valley, to the north of which lives the Celtic tribe of the Ardyes; while its southern side is entirely walled in by the northern slopes of the Alps, the ridges of which, beginning at Marseilles and extending to the head of the Adriatic, separate it from the valley of the Padus, of which I have already had occasion to speak at length.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

(4) The humorous pictures of the lean dogs and the fatted sheep, of the light active boxer upsetting two stout gentlemen at least, of the ‘charming’ patients who are always making themselves worse; or again, the playful assumption that there is no State but our own; or the grave irony with which the statesman is excused who believes that he is six feet high because he is told so, and having nothing to measure with is to be pardoned for his ignorance—he is too lxi amusing for us to be seriously angry with him.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Kant has a very unfavourable opinion of the English state in every way.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

His vows were so tender, his speech was so fluent, He whispered his sorrow if ever we must part.
— from A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems by A. B. S. (Alfred Browning Stanley) Tennyson

There is a vast mass of sympathy in England with you, but it is inert and inactive.
— from Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

No, their bodies were never recovered, and there would be sad hearts somewhere in England when the news reached home.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

The interest grows constantly; it is never, as it sometimes is elsewhere, watered out by too much talk, though there is enough of this to carry out the author's usual system ( v. inf. ).
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Seems if everybody wanted 'em.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham