Lastly, natural selection is a slow process, and the same favourable conditions must long endure in order that any marked effect should thus be produced.
— 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

Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at noon to the ‘Change with Mr. Hater, and there he and I to a tavern to meet Captain Minors, which we did, and dined; and there happened to be Mr. Prichard, a ropemaker of his acquaintance, and whom I know also, and did once mistake for a fiddler, which sung well, and I asked him for such a song that I had heard him sing, and after dinner did fall to discourse about the business of the old contract between the King and the East India Company for the ships of the King that went thither, and about this did beat my brains all the afternoon, and then home and made an end of the accounts to my great content, and so late home tired and my eyes sore, to supper and to bed. 26th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For, in all the world, is there a more entrancing spectacle than that of a young, handsome mother with, in her arms, a healthy child?
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Gilpin, on the other hand, who travelled with an easel before his mind’s eye, cannot make a picture of it; and Gray the poet asserts, in reference to the spot in question, that “all points that are much elevated spoil the beauty of the valley, and make its parts, which are not large, look poor and diminutive.”
— from The Wye and Its Associations: A Picturesque Ramble by Leitch Ritchie

If I do not say "Lord, Lord!" to Jesus, it is because I bow my head to a greater Power than Jesus, to a more efficient Savior than he has ever been—Science!
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

To cling to a mischievous error seemed to him to savor of moral depravity and corruption of heart.
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

It isn't much fun after we have pitched the tent and made everything shipshape to have some angry landowner come along and order us off because we are trespassers.
— from Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude Harris Miller

If the transition takes place rapidly, the stalk, suddenly become thinner and more elongated since the node of the last-developed leaf, shoots up and collects several leaves around an axis at its end.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

" "I have sometimes thought, Andrew," Mr. Eassie said, "that you are lacking in the imaginative faculty.
— from Better Dead by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

In England and in towns of Anglo-Saxon origin, where the economies of life have a natural sway, we find inns representative; in London, especially, a glance at the parlour wall reveals the class to whose convenience the tavern is dedicated: in one the portraits of actors, in [Pg 32] another scenes in the ring and on the racecourse; here the countenance of a leading merchant, and there a military effigy, suggest the vocation of those who chiefly frequent the inn.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

Mrs. Eddy Denies the Atonement When she comes to the Atonement, Mrs. Eddy says that Christ did not come to save Page 183
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

As a child sees his earrings reflected in the water, and says, "Those are my earrings," so the purified ascetic recognises the truth.
— from The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity by Arthur Lillie