So that we may assume that the organism is capable of responding to every demand that nature makes upon it under normal conditions; and since the [Pg 89] greatest possible assimilation under the existing conditions is thus removed from the control of the creature, the latter appears practically insatiable.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Bowers attacked the ship's stores, surveyed, relisted, and restowed them, saving very much space by unstowing numerous cases and stowing the contents in the lazarette.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

The Padrone, who had seemed paralysed until now, came as suddenly to life as Sophy had turned to stone.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

We may, then, establish a class of vases intermediate between the R.F. fabrics proper and the local Italian fabrics, which represents the manner in which Athenian artists carried on their traditions under new circumstances, and serves to explain how the new Italian schools came into being.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters