Therefore to Bacchus duly will we sing Meet honour with ancestral hymns, and cates And dishes bear him; and the doomed goat Led by the horn shall at the altar stand, Whose entrails rich on hazel-spits we'll roast.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

No difficulty arose on either side in the agreement; and she waited only for the disposal of her effects at Norland, and to determine her future household, before she set off for the west; and this, as she was exceedingly rapid in the performance of everything that interested her, was soon done.—The horses which were left her by her husband had been sold soon after his death, and an opportunity now offering of disposing of her carriage, she agreed to sell that likewise at the earnest advice of her eldest daughter.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Then arose the watch-towers, where the watchmen were unceasingly posted night and day, and whence the alarm signal was ever ready to issue its powerful sounds when danger threatened the city.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Either the present deity we hear, Or he of the third heaven hath left his sphere, And through the bosom's pure and warbling wells, Breathes tenderly his smoothed oracles; Breathes tenderly, and so with easy rounds Teaches our mortal hearts to bear immortal sounds.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

It flew from tree to tree and scolded, warning every rabbit within hearing that either a cat or a fox was coming up the plantation.
— from A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories by Beatrix Potter

These were the sum of her thoughts as she went, ever recurring to the point how Walpole would feel offended by her absence, and how such a mark of her indifference would pique his vanity, even to insult.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

Among biologists who confess themselves supporters of the mechanical theory, there are some who expressly reject explanations in terms of [pg 258] chemical and physical principles, and emphasise, more energetically than others, that these can only give rise to vital phenomena and complex processes of movement, on the basis of a most delicately differentiated structure and architecture of the living substance in its minute details, and from the egg onwards.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

Her senses were very feeble; she could see only with one eye; taste and smell were extremely rudimentary; her hear 7 ing was her best means of relation with the external world.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

They were extremely popular with the arbiters of taste, and sold with extraordinary rapidity.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

The garden of Woodcote was the best in Rutherford; even the Hill houses could not compete with it: an extensive lawn lay before the house, with a shrubbery on one side, and the trees and shrubs were exceedingly rare; a little below the house the ground sloped rather steeply, and a succession of terraces and flower-beds led down to a miniature lake with a tiny island; here there were some swans and a punt, and the tall trees that bordered the water were the favourite haunt of blackbirds and thrushes.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

[203] Système analytique des Connaissances de l’Homme , etc. CHAPTER XX THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LAMARCKISM AND DARWINISM; NEOLAMARCKISM Since the appearance of Darwin’s Origin of Species , and after the great naturalist had converted the world to a belief in the general doctrine of evolution, there has arisen in the minds of many working naturalists a conviction that natural selection, or Darwinism as such, is only one of other evolutionary factors; while there are some who entirely reject the selective principle.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

—The first pair are placed at a considerable distance from the second pair; they are short with equal rami, and rather broad segments furnished with a few transverse rows of bristles.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin