Viewing the situation broadly, it must be acknowledged that except for the realization that scurvy is due to a new food factor—a vitamine—our fundamental understanding of its pathogenesis has advanced but little, in spite of the employment of experimental methods and the availability of modern technic.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Nevertheless, no time may be lost in sending for him at this hour, if we would save the lives of thy three sons.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

What mortal hath a prize, that other men May be confounded and abash'd withal, But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical, And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
— from Lamia by John Keats

I must here take further notice that nothing was more fatal to the inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people themselves, who, during the long notice or warning they had of the visitation, made no provision for it by laying in store of provisions, or of other necessaries, by which they might have lived retired and within their own houses, as I have observed others did, and who were in a great measure preserved by that caution; nor were they, after they were a little hardened to it, so shy of conversing with one another, when actually infected, as they were at first: no, though they knew it.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

They are not, as we know them, found in the earliest times of heraldry, unless we are to presume their existence from early seals, many of which show isolated charges taken from the arms; for if in the cases where such charges appear upon the seals we are to accept those seals as proofs of the contemporary existence of those devices as heraldic badges, we should often be led into strange conclusions.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

So that Adam and Eve should be left in sorrow, and he should cut off their trust in God, and make them deny Him.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

If He be lying in some forgotten grave, and if all that fair thought of His having burst the bands of death is a blunder, then there was nothing in His death that had the least bearing upon men's sin, and it is no more to me than the deaths of thousands in the past.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

Therefore personal existence is existence somewhere in space, but locality in space is an attribute of body, not of spirit, and implies bodily existence.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Like the latter, it possessed great wealth, cultivation, and a certain distinction of character; but, like it, suffered from insufficient knowledge of Jewish religious and scientific literature.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

“You believe all this poppy-cock, Chief”? said Lazenby to the Factor, but laughing in Shon’s face the while.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

Would your respect or your affection for your mother be lessened if she took to smoking.
— from Windfalls by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

It resembles the orange brown Lactarius in size and shape, but the color is different, so we have placed it in the orange-colored section and L. volemus in the red division of colors.
— from Among the Mushrooms: A Guide For Beginners by Caroline A. Burgin

If you have so intimate an acquaintance with your brother's affairs, you will be tender of turning 30 so far back: they will hardly bear looking into, so far back.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Accordingly, the progressive and democratic spirit of the age, which in other parts of the country took other shapes, assumed in Massachusetts the form of "liberal Christianity." Arminianism, Socinianism, and other phases of anti-Trinitarian doctrine, had been latent in some of the Congregational churches of Massachusetts for a number of years.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers