It was probable, also, that it would affect him precisely as it affected Mrs. Caird, but how he would meet or baffle it no one could say.
— from Playing With Fire by Amelia E. Barr

But our recent work is not always true, although from the outside it appears [36] correct, because in numbers of cases such double bands are simply glued on the outside of the back, the real sewing, of a very inferior kind, possibly even done by machinery, being hidden underneath the leather.
— from The Book: Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport

For these words are inserted to provide for the case of co-effects of a common cause (such as the flash and report of a gun); but if no other change (such as the discharge of a gun) has concurred with the variations of two phenomena, there cannot have been a common cause, and they are therefore cause and effect.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

What he really meant by it no one can say.”
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

It had been claimed by many that England could never be invaded; nevertheless our course should have been to prepare for possible events.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

Agnes and St. Disciole is that of Ste. Radegonde herself, but it now only contains some particles of her remains, as the greater portion was burnt by the Huguenots in 1562.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

The fact that the highest officials in the country, having a large amount of hard work to do, should prefer to do it in an invigorating mountain atmosphere, rather than amid swamps, steam and fever in the plains below, is not, of course, surprising.
— from Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society by Cunningham, H. S. (Henry Stewart), Sir

A small propeller of fine pitch quickly starts a machine, but is not, of course, so efficient when the model is in actual flight.
— from The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning by V. E. (Valentine Edward) Johnson