Immer Neues spriesset / Eh' ein Mensch geniesset / Mit Verstand das Alte —Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. Rückert.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

(From references in Bronn's "Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelungs-Gesetze", it appears that the celebrated botanist and palaeontologist Unger published, in 1852, his belief that species undergo development and modification.
— 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

Edward heard with pleasure of Colonel Brandon's being expected at the Cottage, as he really wished not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford—"Which, at present," said he, "after thanks so ungraciously delivered as mine were on the occasion, he must think I have never forgiven him for offering.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Lo! this day has my godmother sickened unto death, and my stokh become as a withered palm-leaf.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

However, I made myself sociable; and so, after dinner, my wife and I, with my Lord Brouncker and his mistress, they set us down at my cozen Turner’s, and there we staid awhile and talked; and particularly here we met with Dr. Ball, the Parson of the Temple, who did tell me a great many pretty stories about the manner of the Parsons being paid for their preaching at Paul’s heretofore, and now, and the ground of the Lecture, and heretofore the names of the founders thereof, which were many, at some 5s., some 6s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But, since the gods have devised these evils, would, at any rate, that I had been wife to a better man—to one who could smart under dishonour and men's evil speeches.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was like some gruesome dream, some ugly, dead, amorphous mood become concrete.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

H 2´: “ Nos vero dicemus, non solum permittere Deum creaturis ut operentur, sed ipsum omnia proprie agere, ut, sicut fatentur, proprium Dei opus esse Pauli vocationem ita fateantur, opera Dei propria esse sive quæ media vocantur, ut comedere, bibere, communia cum brutis, sive quæ mala sunt, ut Davidis adulterium, Manlii severitatem animadvertentis in filium.... Iam cum constet, Deum omnia facere, non permissive, sed potenter, ut Augustini verbo utamur, ita ut sit eius proprium opus Iudæ proditio sicut Pauli vocatio ,” etc.—For Melanchthon’s statement in his “ Loci ” of the Lutheran denial of free-will, see above, vol. iii., p. 346.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Here was an unhappy subject threatening to call and see us at night, and then screw us down and make us comfortable.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 by Various

seven three Pilarone show unusual development and may cause trouble, as they have already brought knowledge of the metal of power and of the impenetrable shield to the Central System, which is to be our base.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

She seemed to be thinking always and directly of matters in hand, of things to be done, and subjects under discussion, as much as if she were an impersonal being.
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lo, this day has my godmother sickened unto death, and my STOKH become as a withered palm-leaf.
— from Legends and Tales by Bret Harte

And once we saw lifted in the sky three steamboats sailing upside down, a mirage ... and, once, a gleaming city in the clouds, that hung there spectrally for about five minutes, then imperceptibly faded out....
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

The statue remained motionless, as statues usually do, and Mabel withdrew her head, lay down, was covered up, and left.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The curds are often merely squeezed in a cloth, then turned out and placed upon an upper shelf to dry, where they look like the back portions of gigantic skulls until damp and mould somewhat destroy the resemblance.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

He got smashed up, driving a motor ambulance, you know.”
— from The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler