After they have fallen off, the gynophore, that is the part which supports the ovarium, grows to a great length, even to 3 or 4 inches, and bends perpendicularly downwards.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

"I, for one, can have no use for a man who devotes himself to a girl long enough to win her affections, and then deserts her with as little compunction as a dog does a rat it has shaken.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

New-fangled books are also like made-dishes in this respect, that they are generally little else than hashes and rifaccimentos of what has been served up entire and in a more natural state at other times.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

The learned students of feudalism who translate "feudum" by "clientela" are really giving something, much more than a good linguistical equivalent; they are unawares giving a historical definition of the feoff.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

She learned to leave her brother's welfare in the hands of God, and to be more content with her task of waiting and praying, sure that a greater love even than her own was watching over Dick.
— from Dick's Desertion: A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests A Tale of the Early Settlement of Ontario by Marjorie L. C. (Marjorie Lowry Christie) Pickthall

XII When daylight was come, Buonamico he told: “A good lad ever thou wert, and indeed, Wise for thy years; and, therefore, speak out,
— from Children of Christmas, and Others by Edith Matilda Thomas

He now made a progress through the cities of Greece, in which he established tranquillity and good laws, encouraged them to regard each other with good will, put an end to faction, and brought back exiles, taking no less pride in acting as counsellor and mediator to the Greeks than he did in having conquered the Macedonians, so that liberty seemed to be the least of the benefits which he had bestowed on the Greeks.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Previous to this time, one or two ships in the course of a year found their way through the Golden Gate and into the beautiful harbor of San Francisco in quest of hides, horns and tallow, and gave languid employment to two or three Americans settled on the sand hills, and engaged in collecting these articles of trade and commerce.
— from A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 by Stephen Palfrey Webb

The book is somewhat inchoate, but contains short passages of real beauty, keen shafts of observation, and an occasional flight of emotional expression, which raise the writer to a greater literary elevation than the merely sensational incidents of her earlier novels.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

The mineral grains interlock as they do in igneous rocks , and they are generally large enough to be seen without a magnifying glass.
— from Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide by Roselle M. Girard