It should not be forgotten, that at the present day, with perfect specimens for examination, two forms can seldom be connected by intermediate varieties, and thus proved to be the same species, until many specimens are collected from many places; and with fossil species this can rarely be done.
— 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, what satisfaction canst thou make For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects, And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"There never was," said my guardian, musing as he smiled upon me, "such a Dame Durden for making money last."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Here the rocking of the vessel, which increases the higher you go from the foot of the mast, which is the fulcrum of the lever, and the smell of the grease, which offended my fastidious senses, upset my stomach again, and I was not a little rejoiced when I got upon the comparative terra firma of the deck.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

But at this evocation she broke down; she dropped, with a sudden sob, upon my sofa and, as I had seen her do before, gave way to all the grief of it.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

It is these groups that propaganda tries to stir up, move, set against each other, and use in any handy way.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

[To Somerset] Unless my study and my books be false, The argument you held was wrong in you; In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And then, hour after hour, would I linger by her side, and dwell upon the music of her voice, until at length its melody was tainted with terror, and there fell a shadow upon my soul, and I grew pale, and shuddered inwardly at those too unearthly tones.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Booth stood a moment, as if he had been thunderstruck, and then, the tears bursting from his eyes, he said, "Upon my soul, Atkinson, you overcome me.
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

In sheer desperation, when the supply of pearl-shell hooks was exhausted, they were wont to attach bait to their harpoon-points, and they used such unpropitious means successfully, and occasionally made a miniature hook by tying a sharp spur to a thin, straight stick.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Into this he has cramm’d such uncommon monstrosities, Such animals rare, such unique curiosities, That we wager a CROWN—not to speak it uncivil— This HOUSE of BULL’S beats Noah’s Ark to the devil.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 by Various

I felt the deck sink under me; shrieks and cries arose.
— from Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston

Now one on the farther bank of the river saw that which sat upon my shoulders, and saw also the wolf’s skin on my head, and ran to the kraal crying, ‘Here comes one who walks the waters on the back of a wolf.’
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I shut up my shop and went home, thinking to myself: "Now I shall be nothing in my own house; this Trubert is going to rule everything.
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

I could wish that time would put on its utmost speed until May, so as to move thereafter so much the more slowly.'
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas