53 For in the latter case something comes into existence which did not exist previously, while in nutrition the inflowing material becomes assimilated to that which has already come into existence.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

in the heather, and the light coming slowly clearer in the east. * Village fair.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

When it had been first proposed that Lord Carstairs should come into the house as a private pupil she had expressed her fear to the Doctor,—because of Mary.
— from Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

After removing his baggage and stores over the Delaware, and sending his sick to Philadelphia, the American General, finding that Lord Cornwallis still continued in Brunswick, detached twelve hundred men to Princeton in the hope that this appearance of advancing on the British might not only retard their progress, but cover a part of the country, and reanimate the people of Jersey.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

After entrance came the “little course,” so called, in order that we might not be afraid of it.
— from A Christian Woman by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

A form flies past them with wild eyes and disheveled hair; a form that pounces upon the little chap still crying in fright, and presses him convulsively to her breast.
— from Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

Keeping these facts in mind, the statistics contained in the following extracts are of telling force: “If the laboring class should contribute its due proportion to the congregations, the churches, many of which are now half empty, would not begin to hold the people.
— from Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Jane M. (Jane Marie) Bancroft