Iona, a name supposed to have arisen from a mistaken reading of Ioua , an adjectival form used by Adamnan ( v. infra note 4), feminine, agreeing with insula , formed from the Irish name, I, Ii, Hii, etc. (the forms vary greatly).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

There was one well-known feature of all the military navies of that day which calls for a passing comment; for its correct bearing and value is not always, perhaps not generally, seen.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Pagan, of which Paugan may be a variant, is not uncommon as a personal name in early records.
— from The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies by Thomas Taylor

This claim was supported by a very intelligent negro who was stopped a few blocks away from the plant and questioned as to the conditions there.
— from Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

Such a hypothesis for our own higher interest rates would seem to be supported by the fact that in Germany, too, interest is consistently on a higher level than in London or Paris, Germany, like ourselves, being a vigorous industrial nation without any very great accumulated fund of capital saved by the people.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

to have rest and plenty, should be a volunteer in new sorrows by my own unhappy choice, and that I, who had escaped so many dangers in my youth, should now come to be hanged in my old age, and in so remote a place, for a crime which I was not in the least inclined to, much less guilty of.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Such a hypothesis for our own higher interest rates would seem to be supported by the fact that in Germany, too, interest is consistently on a higher level than in London or Paris, Germany, like ourselves, being a vigorous industrial nation without any very great accumulated fund of capital sa
— from Elements of Foreign Exchange: A Foreign Exchange Primer by Franklin Escher

Generosity would then, like justice, be a virtue in no higher sense than that of not being a vice—a negative virtue if a virtue at all.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

The title of the work conveys but a very inadequate notion of its wide scope, of the encyclopaedic learning and originality of treatment which it displays, and, least of all, of the abundance of _human interest_ which characterizes it so markedly.
— from The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp

Some have defined this figure in a way that betrays a very inaccurate notion of what it is: as, "ELLIPSIS is when one or more words are wanting to complete the sense ."— Adam's Lat. and Eng.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

We have known intelligent men speak as if the apostles laid no stress upon holy baptism, and valued it not one whit as compared with the interior gift of the Holy Ghost.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

His partiality however, to that part of the kingdom, is manifest enough, for he pretended to say, that a good racer could be bred in no place but the North; whereas, late experience has proved that to be a very idle notion.
— from A Dissertation on Horses Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the Blood by William Osmer