I pray be gone companions.—And, gentlemen, I begin to suspect you for having parts with them.—Sir, will it please you hear me?
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

So that we are reduced to consider whether the exceptions to continuity of range are so numerous, and of so grave a nature, that we ought to give up the belief, rendered probable by general considerations, that each species has been produced within one area, and has migrated thence as far as it could.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

If a man who delights in annoying and vexing peaceable people at last receives a right good beating, this is no doubt a bad thing; but everyone approves it and regards it as a good thing, even though nothing else resulted from it; nay, even the man who receives it must in his reason acknowledge that he has met justice, because he sees the proportion between good conduct and good fortune, which reason inevitably places before him, here put into practice.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

The other epic poets have used the same practice, but generally carried it so far as to superinduce a multiplicity of fables, destroy the unity of action, and lose their readers in an unreasonable length of time.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The most wealthy are distinguished with a vest, not one large and flowing like those of Sarmatians and Parthians, but girt close about them and expressing the proportion of every limb.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

This beautiful feature may be developed so as to ignore or even conceal the rest; then the visible portion may be entirely beautiful, like the ideal human figure, though no pledges be given concerning the anatomy within.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He had been appointed to this post by General Cavaignac.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade[obs3], esplanade, parterre.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There is no reason to suppose that moral judgment, as Kant conceived it, was excluded from the consideration of relevant data, such as the knowledge of actual effects produced by given courses of conduct.
— from John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

At first general consternation prevailed; but, gathering confidence, they whispered together, casting the while revengeful looks towards the wizard.
— from Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea. Vol. II by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

HENRY, T.A., a variety of the ash produced by grafting. -crossing of species of Rhododendron and Arabis. HENSLOW, Prof., individual variation in wheat.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

If the sensitive collodion soon assumes a reddish colour, it is improved by the addition of one or two drops of a saturated solution of cyanide of potassium; but great care must be used, as this salt is very active.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“ A Ploughboy ,” by George Clausen .
— from The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

Photo by Gough, Cheddar.
— from The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker

You know that some physicians declare madness to be a mere illness of the brain—an illness to which any one is subject, and which may be produced by given causes, and cured by given means.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He is “purged by grief,” “chastened by suffering,” and everything, in short, that he should be, and Mr. Courtney is touched and pleased.
— from The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports by Charles Grolleau

There were also Smith Thompson, taught in the law by Chancellor Kent and tutored in politics by George Clinton, who was to follow the former Chief Justice and end his days on the United States Supreme bench; Joseph C. Yates, founder of Union College, and Samuel L. Mitchill, scientist and politician, who has been called the Franklin of New York.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander