But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

All our hunters except Gibson returned about noon; none of them had killed anything except Sheilds who brought with him two deer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

All our hunters except Gibson returned about noon; none of them had killed any thing except Shields who brought with him two deer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

quam is also used with some virtual comparatives: thus, nihil aliud , nōn aliud quam , no other than , often as adverb, only ; secus quam with a negative, not otherwise than ; bis tantō quam , twice as much as ; and prae quam in old Latin, in comparison with how ; and similar phrases: as, ( a. ) per bīduum nihil aliud quam stetērunt parātī ad pugnandum , L. 34, 46, 7, for two days they merely stood in battle array .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Conjugal society is made by a voluntary compact between man and woman; and tho' it consist chiefly in such a communion and right in one another's bodies as is necessary to its chief end, procreation; yet it draws with it mutual support and assistance, and a communion of interests too, as necessary not only to unite their care and affection, but also necessary to their common off-spring, who have a right to be nourished, and maintained by them, till they are able to provide for themselves.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

When the retreat is made down the bank of a river, wooden houses may be thrown into the stream, also fire-ships and mills,—a means the Austrians used in 1796 against Jourdan's army, near Neuwied on the Rhine, where they nearly compromised the army of the Sambre and the Meuse.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

"It being once demonstrated," continues Rousseau, "that man and woman are not, nor ought to be, constituted alike in temperament and character, it follows of course, that they should not be educated in the same manner.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

They are noticed now, only to afford an opportunity for the presentation of a fifth, and, as it is believed, the true opinion, which is as follows.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

He had, in fact, received absolutely no news of the whereabouts of his wife and little son since they separated at Volhynien.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And Newman Noggs opened the door once again to nod cheerfully, and laugh—and shut it, to shake his head mournfully, and cry.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

If certain fossils are not necessarily older than certain others, it might reasonably be expected that we would now and then find them reversed as to position, i.e., with the "younger" below and the "older" above.
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price

For truly there is almost now no other thing in our cities and commonweals than is [Pg 58] contained in Homer’s work Iliad, The wrath of indiscreet princes and people.
— from Erasmus Against War by Desiderius Erasmus

With all the cry of aristocracy, and feudality, and nobility, neither of the Rensselaers, by the letter of the law, has one particle more of political power, or political right, than his own coachman or footman, if the last be a white man; while, in practice, he is in many things getting to be less protected."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

And, in those cases where there is no accumulation of antiquated rules and no need of the individual reformer, but where society at large has the happy knack of imperceptibly accommodating its practice and principles of action to altered circumstances, there can be no doubt that it is by considerations of well-being, half conscious though the process of application may be, that the change is directed.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

He had never [294] experienced any sisters, nor much mother consciously—being the eighth son, as of course we know, of a jolly Yorkshire baronet; at any rate he had lost his mother at the birth of Nonus Pell; and I am sorry there are not ninety of them, if of equal merit.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

These modern Americans, for instance, knew little of hand to hand fighting, and nothing, naturally, of trench warfare.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

ii. , I have classed the Toltecs among the Nahua nations, it will be noticed that the preceding conclusions of the present chapter are independent of such a classification, and are not necessarily opposed to the theory, held by some, that the cities of Central America were built by the Toltecs before they assumed a prominent position among the nations of Anáhuac.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

"I was born," said she, "in this house; and I have never quitted it; but my parents are not natives of this country—they came here as strangers, without either friends or relatives.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

We specify the reference room of the library because those who search for fiction, newspapers and magazines are not necessarily of the pure type.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict