It not only divided states and churches, it divides families; aye, it divides the individual , separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The shape of a crystal is determined solely by the molecular forces, and it is not surprising that dissimilar substances should sometimes assume the same form; but with organic beings we should bear in mind that the form of each depends on an infinitude of complex relations, namely on the variations which have arisen, these being due to causes far too intricate to be followed out—on the nature of the variations which have been preserved or selected, and this depends on the surrounding physical conditions, and in a still higher degree on the surrounding organisms with which each being has come into competition—and lastly, on inheritance (in itself a fluctuating element) from innumerable progenitors, all of which have had their forms determined through equally complex relations.
— 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

She does not obey impostors, their miracles are wrought in holes and corners, in deserts, within closed doors, where they find easy dupes among a small company of spectators already disposed to believe them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In accordance with the above peculiarity of our Understanding it cannot happen that the whole shall contain the ground of the possibility of the connexion of the parts (which would be a contradiction in discursive cognition), but only that the representation of a whole may contain the ground of the possibility of its form and the connexion of the parts belonging to it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

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— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

How they hate a Christian in Damascus!—and pretty much all over Turkeydom as well.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I generally dragged the remains of a carcase I did not want in the way of the ants, and watched them at their feast.
— from The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

When an axillary cluster is developed it is included in a brace, with the cluster occurring immediately above it, the axillary cluster always being placed below.
— from The Kansas University Science Bulletin (Vol. I, No. 1) by Various

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— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

This section of the alimentary canal is distinguished by the fact that its walls send out a series of paired diverticula, which meet the skin, and after a perforation has been effected at the regions of contact, form the branchial or visceral clefts.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

And when he is gone, the mistress comes in again where Sarah is at work for her on a fine new gown, and snatches it away, and casts it down on the floor, and throws after it all the fine jewels she has got on her table, and stamps and cries with the misery and the passion that is in her.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

Both are grave and cautious in demeanour, and formal in manner,princes in rags or paint.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

At one time he considered attempting to import Palatine Germans to settle there, but after careful investigation decided that the plan was impracticable.
— from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities by Paul Leland Haworth

No matter what our belief may be in religious matters, every good citizen knows that when the restraining influences of religion are withdrawn from a community, its decay, moral, mental and financial, is swift and sure.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll