Hence it was quite natural that the older naïve study of nature, in explaining the origin and activity of the living being, should postulate a creator who had “arranged all things with wisdom and understanding,” and had constructed each plant and animal according to the special purpose of its life.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

A fact like this seems to fit in with that flattering, fascinating, ingenious hypothesis invented by Mr. Wallace to account for facts which, according to the theory of natural selection, ought not to exist.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

For another reference by Stevenson to the older novelist, see our Note 47 of Chapter IV above.]
— from Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps by Robert Louis Stevenson

After Mrs Ann Bloomer of New York, who introduced the original nondescript style of “New Woman” in 1849.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

I do not think this would destroy the interpretation, for the Lord may have wished to draw the man out, and make him, a Gentile or doubtful kind of Jew, rebuke the disciples; only the man's love for his son stood in the way: he could think of nothing, speak of nothing save his son; but it makes it unsatisfactory.
— from Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

A settlement here and there broke the forest with smiles of civilization, which she passed with proud consciousness of seeing the world; but, altogether, she thought more of the rosy mother and riotous children at home than of new scenes or new people.
— from Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

* * * Siam’s National Anthem (To the Tune of “America.”) Ova tannas Siam Geeva tannas Siam Ova tannas Sucha tammas Siam Inocan gif fa tam Osucha nas Siam Osucha nas.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various