En los días sucesivos Rey hizo conocimiento con varias personas de la población y visitó el Casino, trabando amistades con algunos individuos de los que pasaban la vida en las salas de aquella corporación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A piece of living tissue, unequally injured at the two ends, is thus seen to act like a voltaic element, comparable to a copper and zinc couple.
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Tum spectaculum horribile in campis patentibus: sequi fugere, occidi capi; equi atque viri afflicti, ac multi vulneribus acceptis neque fugere posse neque quietem pati, niti modo, ac statim concidere; postremo omnia, qua visus erat, constrata telis, armis, cadaveribus, et inter ea humus infecta sanguine.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

We can very easily conceive that, after Corneille had turned into verse the "Imitation of Jesus Christ," some sarcastic wag might menace the public with the acting of a tragedy in prose, by Floridor and Mondori; but this project having been seriously executed by the abbé d'Aubignac, we well know with what success it was attended.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

There [ 91 ] is no specific ancestor worship, in connection with which I could endeavour to trace out an association between that ancestor and a totemistic object, and there is no special reverence paid to any animal or vegetable, except certain trees and creepers, the fear of which is associated with spirits and ghosts generally, and not with ghosts of individual persons, and except as regards omen superstitions concerning flying foxes and fireflies, which are general and universal among all these people, and except as regards the possible imitative character of the Mafulu dancing, which, if existent, is probably also universal.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson