It would, however, be easy to show that whatever steadiness or consistency these moral beliefs have attained, has been mainly due to the tacit influence of a standard not recognised.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

"Of course I shall not really push him," I thought, already more good-natured in my joy.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who sat near Raymond was telling a story, which convulsed the rest with laughter.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But it all comes back to me so fresh that I can't help crying sometimes to think I shall never read them again with him.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Hence I can see no reason to doubt that natural selection might be most effective in giving the proper colour to each kind of grouse, and in keeping that colour, when once acquired, true and constant.
— 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

A detachment of men and boys, who had set out in search of the buffaloes which were to be sacrificed, now returned driving before them three cows, which escaped from their pursuers to rejoin the main herd.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Hence it has come, that when we compare the now living productions of the temperate regions of the New and Old Worlds, we find very few identical species (though Asa Gray has lately shown that more plants are identical than was formerly supposed), but we find in every great class many forms, which some naturalists rank as geographical races, and others as distinct species; and a host of closely allied or representative forms which are ranked by all naturalists as specifically distinct.
— 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

By day the more enterprising spirits would diverge from the route to track the red deer or the scarcer blacktail in the wooded fastnesses of some neighbouring ravine, while the waggons creaked on their slow and ponderous course.
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

And then repetition at sea is somehow not repetition; monotony is in the air, the mind is flat and everything recurs—the bells, the meals, the stewards' faces, the romp of children, the walk, the clothes, the very shoes and buttons of passengers taking their exercise.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

They were, it seemed, not round Cape Horn yet, and the Aldebaran still held on plunging through the white-topped rollers close-hauled.
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss

But while this distinction between the parachordals and the trabeculæ must I think be admitted, I see no reason against supposing that the trabeculæ may be plates developed to support the floor of the fore-brain, for the same physiological reasons that the parachordals have become formed at the sides of the notochord to support the floor of the hind-brain.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

They should neither have meat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor rest, till they expired."
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

There seems no reason why we should lack power to drive back the English to their ships; yet I have that within me which speaks of calamity and disaster.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

I shall not readily forget an experience that came to me in 1871, when I travelled from London to Brighton to play for the Gentlemen against the Players for the benefit of John Lillywhite.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

But from whatever point of view you may look at the question, it is obviously better to aim at imperfection than perfection; for if we aim steadily at imperfection, we shall probably get it within a reasonable time, whereas to the end of our days we should never reach perfection.
— from Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler

The next day Waife, who seemed now recovered as by enchantment, walked forth with George, Darrell again with Sophy.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron