If the reason of their not being engaged, and no other seems so probable, was, that they refused to renew their treaties with England upon any terms, all that can be said is, that they were guilty of flagrant ingratitude, as they had both received a subsidy from this kingdom for many years in time of peace, when they neither were nor could be of any service to the interest of Great Britain.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He condemned the tropical garden as an abomination, because it was impossible that a place which could give hospitality to a growth of New Zealand fern, Phormium Hookeri , should harbour a sago palm Metroxylon Elatum , which was not indigenous to New Zealand; and then he went on to talk about the obligations of the place to be educational and not ornamental, showing quite plainly that to be botanical should be the highest aim of any one anxious for the welfare of his country.
— from A Garden of Peace: A Medley in Quietude by Frank Frankfort Moore

Secondly , by employing a needle of steel instead of the bar of iron used by Page, Reis obtained an instrument which once used could never become completely demagnetised on the cessation of the current; it was thenceforth a permanent magnet , and all that the fluctuating currents could do was to vary its degree of magnetisation.
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

Their brevity is, in fact, such as renders them all bad English ; and not only so, it makes them obviously inadequate to their purpose, as bringing into use but a part of the principles which the learner had studied.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Wintry weather seemed to have visited the Island, but the cold was deceptive, for though a heavy coat was acceptable, plenty of flowers were in blossom, even a number of surprised-looking roses.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

Which explanation is correct, can only be told by examining a number of such individuals under critical conditions, or by an examination of the ancestry.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson

what's become of it?), to the Cigarette Fund, the 1914 Christmas Plum Pudding Fund, the Blue Cross, the Purple Cross, the Green Cross funds; to the outstandingly good work at St. Dunstan's and at Petersham—(I am glad she gave a Hundred pounds each to them ); and to the French, Belgian, Russian, Italian, Serbian, Portuguese and Japanese Flag Days and to Our Own Day; besides enriching a number of semi-fraudulent war charities which had alluring titles.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

In this country, England, where I write, there are bridges everywhere and no one seems to appreciate them.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

What is known as the Epicure'an school of philosophy was founded by Epicurus, a native of Samos, born in 342, who went to Athens in early youth, and, at the age of thirty, established himself as a philosophical teacher.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson