If you mean, Do I not think Abbie has attained to a rare growth in spirituality for one of her age, I most certainly do; but if you mean, Do I not think it almost impossible for people in general to reach as high a foothold on the rock as she has gained, I certainly do not.
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

There are some fifty or sixty of these teeth on each side, and they are regularly graduated in size, being longest in the middle of the beak, and becoming very short at either end.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

Every island of the Archipelago, and every valley of ancient Hellas, differed from its neighbours as regards social condition, dialect, and customs, but they all remained Greek, in spite of the Phœnician and other influences to which they had been subjected.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

If they are really good, I should want one, of course.”
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Though ordinarily written as griffin or griffon, the alternative rendering gryphon is somewhat more correct, as the word is derived from the Greek grypos , or hook-nosed, in evident allusion to its eagle-beak.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme