Now, although I deem his conclusion precipitate, yet the very fact of a simultaneous, functionally concordant, yet essentially diversified modification of numerous parts, points conclusively to the circumstance that something is still wanting to the selection of Darwin and Wallace, which it is obligatory on us to discover, if we possibly can , and without which selection as yet offers no complete explanation of the phyletic processes of transformation.
— from On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation by August Weismann

He has accused you of not caring enough for him.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

As to the agent producing these great gaps, which so strikingly interrupt the continuity of the curve, and, as you see, in one place, cut it completely into two, I have as yet obtained no conclusive evidence.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various

no eran hombres que hazian mal a nadie, ni les yuan a tomar sus haziendas: que lo alcanço facilmente con su prudencia, y con darles a los Caciques algunas sartas de quentas de vidrio que llenaua para este effeto, y sombreros, y otras ninnerias: con este, y con el buen tratamiento que les hazian, se fueron muchos dellos en compannia de los nuestros algunos dias, caminando siempre por la ribera del rio grande arriba dicho, portoda la qual hauia muchos pueblos di Indios desta nacion, que duraron por espacio de doze jornadas, en todas las quales auisados los vnos Caciques de los otros salian a recebir a los nuestros sin arcos, ni flechas, y les trayan muchos mantenimientos, y otros regalos y dadiuos, en especial cueros y camuças muy bien adereçados, y que no les excedian en esto las de Flandes.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Not a very glorious style of warfare for those days of vaunted chivalry, yet one, nevertheless, characteristic enough of the times.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

Fuller, who errs in describing Ralegh as a Privy Councillor, says in his Worthies : 'Sir Walter Ralegh declined the challenge without any abatement to his valour; for having a fair and fixed estate, with wife and children, being a Privy Councillor, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries, he looked upon it as an uneven lay to stake himself against Sir Amias, a private and single person, though of good birth and courage, yet of no considerable estate.'
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Some of the symptoms have been relieved, but we know as yet of no cure effected by it.
— from The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832. by Various

You shall, in your own name, call every one in Allerdale, gentle and simple, to Aspatria Church.
— from A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr