In Rome the principles of the Government underwent no variation, although the Consuls were changed every year, because the Senate, which was an hereditary assembly, possessed the directing authority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now she had fresh anxieties to think of; at the moment the captain had stumbled upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch as he was going out, Liza had suddenly begun laughing—at first quietly and intermittently, but her laughter grew more and more violent, louder and more conspicuous.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Probably what pleased her was that the latter in her turn seemed almost fawning upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch and was more gracious to him than to anyone.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Labat, Le P. Traité de la culture du café, dans un nouveau voyage aux iles de l'Amérique.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Let us not venture all this poor remainder In one unlucky bottom.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

"We'd begin, you see, to breed up new vegetables and fruits.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Let it be borne in mind in what an endless number of strange peculiarities our domestic productions, and, in a lesser degree, those under nature, vary; and how strong the hereditary tendency is.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

If then we have under nature variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why should we doubt that variations in any way useful to beings, under their excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited?
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

2.16; silent, mute, uttering no voice, Ac. 8.32; inarticulate, consisting of inarticulate sounds, unmeaning 1 Co. 14.10.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

"I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

The Church had as yet uplifted no voice against it.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The humbler folk apparently bore us no vindictiveness, and showed no signs of resenting our presence in the city.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

in a more confidential tone; and last of all, an unmistakably Northern voice attempts it, but ends in something between Antonio and Anthony.
— from To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana

To Uncle Nathan victory and defeat were alike the messengers of woe.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton