One pair mates and the male, at least, is slain; the other pair mates and survives, to encourage vegetable life.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

The canal has hitherto been employed almost entirely for the transport of passengers, mails, and such traffic as will bear a high rate of freight, the charge of 7 s. to 10 s. per ton being prohibitory in respect to much of the commerce that passes from the East to the West.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

Still civilization, education, and religion, with all the improvements of the age, are progressing, and the old pioneer missionaries and settlers that were contemporary with them, with a few exceptions, are foremost in every laudable effort to benefit the present and rising generation.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

"And to this unprovoked design against an inoffensive stranger I fitted the only possible meaning and shape that would make a lick of sense, dovetailin' in with the real honest-to-goodness facts I already knew."
— from Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

They broke open with a stone hatchet some tins of preserved meat, and seemed to enjoy the contents greatly.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

In regard to Kolbe’s attestation, we reckon it nothing, for a man [190] who has seen at the Cape of Good Hope, elks and lynxes, like those of Prussia, might also see the ant-eaters in the same climate.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 07 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

On this occasion Penn made a speech, to which the [149] Indians replied by saying: "We will live in peace with Penn and his children as long as the moon and the sun shall endure."
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

1. Perfectly soft iron we can easily free, by vibrations, from the slightest trace of previous magnetism, and study the neutrality produced under varying conditions.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

They are cases in which one of two opposite predicates, mero adspectu , seemed to be incompatible with the subject, and the other, therefore, to be proved always to exist with it.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill