20 When rabbits run wild in foreign countries under new conditions of life, they by no means always revert to their aboriginal colour.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

And even as I stood, smiling at my own small grandeur, came tender memories crowding thick upon me,—of a soft, warm lap, in which I had once loved to lay my head; of a face, fair, pensive, loving, lovely; of eyes whose deep and quiet light a shadow of unkindness never crossed; of lips that sweetly crooned the songs of a far-off, happy land; of a presence full of comfort, hope, strength, courage, victory, peace, that perfect harmony that comes of perfect faith,—a child's trust in its mother.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

"A union between us now could only lead to unhappiness.
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

When rabbits run wild in foreign countries under new conditions of life, they by no means always revert to their aboriginal colour.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Let us now convert our lookes to Wales , to Perotto ; being lefte there with the other Lord Marshall, who was the President of that Countrey.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio