In other words it seems probable that when the whitish variety arises a second time from the red species, it is not at all necessary that it should exhibit this same tendency to revert.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

Government was glad to have individuals join in the work of building and equipping ships of war, and it was accordingly natural that individuals should expect to reimburse themselves for the heavy risk and expense by taking a share in the spoils of victory.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

This is a score rich in beauty and strangeness, yet the music has often a deceptive naïveté, a naïveté that is so extreme that it reveals itself, finally, as the quintessence of subtlety and reticence—in which respect, again, we are reminded of its perfect, its well-nigh uncanny, correspondence with the quality of Maeterlinck's drama.
— from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Lawrence Gilman

A nation that is strong enough to carry the war into its enemy's country, and keep it there, will certainly prove strong enough to win in the end, unless interference by some other power prevents it; while a nation that is too weak to keep war, with all its devastation and ruin, out of its territory, must certainly be defeated unless assisted by some neighboring people.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

It was a minor point and nobody thought it significant enough to pursue.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

But it is absolutely necessary that I should explain to you, at the very beginning of your work, how we look at these things.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne

And now there is something else to prove that he was not an ordinary rabbit.
— from The Red Cow and Her Friends by Peter McArthur