Ovary top-shaped, upper part somewhat concave.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises her at times into heroical and godlike regions, and verifies the pictures of Minerva, [441] Juno, [442] or Polymnia; [443] and, by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, she convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The jealous protection thus afforded by Australian men and women to bats and owls respectively (for bats and owls seem to be the creatures usually allotted to the two sexes) is not based upon purely selfish considerations.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

un periódico suelto, como dijo quien sabía muy bien 5 lo que decía.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

[ As this treatise was written in the reign of Trajan, when the affairs of the Romans appeared unusually prosperous, some critics have imagined that Tacitus wrote vigentibus , "flourishing," instead of urgentibus , "urgent."
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

The ladies, who were very impatient to be gone, made their courtsies, and tripped away, followed by all the gentlemen of their party, except the lord before mentioned, and, Lord Orville, who stayed to make inquiries of Mrs. Mirvan concerning our leaving town; and then saying, with his usual politeness, something civil to each of us, with a very grave air he quitted us.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Never was such labyrinths of uncarpeted passages, such clusters of mouldy, ill-lighted rooms, such huge numbers of small dens for eating or sleeping in, beneath any one roof, as are collected together between the four walls of the Great White Horse at Ipswich.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Her prudent and blameless conduct gave her the more right in after years to {4} deal severely with Mary Stuart, whose behaviour under precisely similar circumstances was so very different.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

Then, as also upon Puget Sound, cities were founded with most extravagant size and expectations—on paper.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

The psychologist, who had been listening to the exuberant youth with undisguised pleasure, spoke calmly.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Perhaps not in our day and generation, but in the words of the lamented Douglas, "So certain as this republic exists, so certain as we remain a united people, so certain as the laws of progress, which have raised us from a mere handful to a mighty nation, shall continue to govern our action, just so certain are these events to be worked out, and you will be compelled to extend your protection-in that direction.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 by Various