But here, the winter winds are not to blame: the soft, gentle breezes of the perpetual summer have wrought the havoc, leaving, however, a not unpleasing picture of dark, cool, mossy green foliage.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In putting the vivisector's knife to the breast of the very VIRTUES OF THEIR AGE, they have betrayed their own secret; it has been for the sake of a NEW greatness of man, a new untrodden path to his aggrandizement.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Il s'agit d'un catalogue des langues dans le monde, avec des informations sur les endroits où elles sont parlées, une estimation du nombre de personnes qui les parlent, la famille linguistique à laquelle elles appartiennent, les autres noms utilisés pour ces langues, les noms de dialectes, d'autres informations socio-linguistiques et démographiques, les dates des Bibles publiées, un index des noms de langues, un index des familles linguistiques et des cartes géographiques relatives aux langues.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For paintings which are not upon patents the design of the shield rests with the individual taste of the different officers of arms, and recently some of the work for which they have been responsible has reached a high standard judged even by the strictest canons of art.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The cardiac valves are normal, unless previously damaged.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The so-called captivation of our visual capacity plays a not unimportant part in distinguishing correct from illusory seeing.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I have but one Shooe and one Slipper; no Head-dress, and no upper Petticoat.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She laid her head on his bosom, and said, “It’s all no use, papa, to keep it to myself any longer.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“He has played a not unimportant part in this drama,” said he.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The flabbiness of coalitions increased the weakness due to inefficient preparation; a great and not unnatural panic on the English Channel coast, and the capture of one ship-of-the-line, were the sole results of a cruise extending, for the French, over fifteen weeks.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The antelope and deer are not uncommon pets at the frontier ranches; the mountain sheep and elk can be tamed as readily, but it is more difficult to catch them.
— from St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

‘I am not utterly penniless; I have good expectations; I have hopes indeed of succeeding to a title—’ ‘That of chevalier d’industrie , I presume.
— from A Son of Mars, volume 2 by Arthur Griffiths

There was not a country in which assassination was unknown; and in most countries it was common, kings and churchmen being its patrons, and not unfrequently perishing by the very arts which under their fostering care had been carried to the highest pitch of artistic perfection.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

If we were only permitted to attack the more complicated phenomena after gaining a complete insight into the simpler ones, then all scientists would be physicists and chemists, and not until Physics and Chemistry were done with should we be permitted to proceed to the investigation of organic nature.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

Thicknesse, although he afterwards quarrelled with the painter, and slandered him in a venomous [Pg 31] pamphlet, was at first a highly useful friend and not ungenerous patron.
— from Gainsborough by Max Rothschild

We think the testimony adverse to such a supposition, and it affords no unequivocal proof of talents, that notwithstanding such an adventitious circumstance, certainly without being of the line of ruling chiefs, he elevated himself to be, not only the head chief and leader of his tribe, but of the Six Nations.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

They may have visited me in my dreams; they may, indeed, have come to me betwixt the sherry and the champagne, but nevertheless I do aver that they are buzzing about here in the minds of many very serious and not unimportant persons.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Only on condition that there be no more sources of infection, that is to say, that there be no longer unhealthful places in the world, and no underfed people constrained to work beyond their strength.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

Riot and strikes are not unpatriotic piracy; they are the localized suppuration of an economic distress that can be cured or forestalled in a democracy by other means than a soldiery, which we have found a failure in America and Britain.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson