Animals

Examples

• By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
• We can clearly discern this in the case of animals with simple habits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While I am speaking of animals, I will mention that I have a horse now by the name of Jericho. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Receiving this reply, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite did, what all animals (human and otherwise) do, when they find themselves caught in a trap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A few days of rest were necessary to recuperate the animals and also to have them shod and put in condition for moving. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This is the order of nature, to prevent animals being infected by their own perspiration. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Out of the question, sir,' remarked Sam Weller, coming to assist in the conference; 'it's a cruelty to animals, sir, to ask 'em to do it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
• But all natural fabrics, whether they come from plants, like cotton and linen, or from animals, like wool and silk, contain more or less coloring matter, which impairs the whiteness. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the case of most animals the new generation is on trial in a year or less. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There are, also, cases of dimorphism and trimorphism, both with animals and plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Some of the many kinds of animals which live on the beach between high and low water mark seem to be rarely preserved. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But we watch him, and see him kind to animals, to little children, to poor people. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have not seen animals that moved faster, unless I might say it of the antelopes of our own great plains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But perhaps he was speaking now; there was a momentary hush of their noise, inarticulate as that of a troop of animals. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A certain amount of baggage was allowed per man, and saddle animals were to be furnished to commissioned officers and to all disabled persons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• During the convalescence of animals, great benefit is derived from almost any change in their habits of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Jo and the other lower animals get on in the unintelligible mess as they can. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Some of the lower animals have a speaking apparatus similar to our own, but they cannot perfectly transform sound into speech. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• How many animals there are which will not breed, though kept in an almost free state in their native country! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We had called ourselves the paragon of animals, and, lo! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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