Thy sins are visited in this poor child; The canon of the law is laid on him, Being but the second generation Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This gradual increase in number of the species of a group is strictly conformable with my theory; as the species of the same genus, and the genera of the same family, can increase only slowly and progressively; for the process of modification and the production of a number of allied forms must be slow and gradual,—one species giving rise first to two or three varieties, these being slowly converted into species, which in their turn produce by equally slow steps other species, and so on, like the branching of a great tree from a single stem, till the group becomes large.
— 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

“Here, Sylvie! girl, run for the doctor,” called the widow.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

" "'Tis—'tis," said Gabriel, recovering from a meditation.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Such a case seems to have been the remarkable one from Charcot which I shall give rather fully in the chapter on Imagination.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The seed bruised and boiled in wine, is a singularly good remedy for the wind colic, or the stone, being drank warm: It is also given to women troubled with the mother, both to drink, and the seed put into a cloth, and applied while it is warm, is of singularly good use.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The common Red Rattle hath sundry reddish, hollow stalks, and sometimes green, rising from the root, lying for the most part on the ground, some growing more upright, with many small reddish or green leaves set on both sides of a middle rib, finely dented about the edges: The flowers stand at the tops of the stalks and branches, of a fine purplish red colour, like small gaping hooks; after which come blackish seed in small husks, which lying loose therein, will rattle with shaking.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The Romans themselves bore so great reverence for these arts that besides the respect that Marcellus, in sacking the city of Syracuse, commanded to be paid to a craftsman famous in them, in planning the assault of the aforesaid city they took care not to set fire to that quarter wherein there was a most beautiful painted panel, which was afterwards carried to Rome in the triumph, with much pomp.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

But no one had so much as thought of danger coming so quickly to their own gates from such a distance, especially as the youth of the king still gave room for a certain feeling of contempt.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“If Skobeleff has ordered,” said the Grand Duke Nicholas, “he has some good reason for it.”
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

“He should have understood that I had some good reason for planning matters just as I did or I should not have done it.”
— from The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

The survivors felt that they had still greater reason for gratitude that they had been spared while others had been taken.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

The instances in which sulphuric acid could not be passed though baryta, or baryta through sulphuric acid 129 , because of the precipitation of sulphate of baryta, enter within the pale of the law already described (380. 412.), by which liquidity is so generally required for conduction and decomposition.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

No doubt Kitty had some good reason for her chivalrous act.
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

Conway’s letter to Gates Just before leaving Saratoga, Gates received from Conway a letter containing an allusion to Washington so terse and pointed as to be easily remembered and quoted, and Gates showed this letter to his young confidant and aid-de-camp, Wilkinson.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske