This change was therefore brought about, not by new creations, but by successive losses.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Roasting enterprises on a comparatively small scale (not by consumers, but by sufficiently expert dealers) would probably be much more numerous on account of the "fresh-roast" argument, except for the fact that coffee-roasting machines can not be installed so easily as the grinding mills, meat-choppers, and slicing machines, that find extended use in small stores.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She came forward, bobbing curtsies, but between Sara's eyes and her own there passed a gleam of friendly understanding, while her words tumbled over each other.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The effort, in selecting this series of translations, has been to choose those works which best represent the various schools of thought in criminal science, the general results reached, the points of contact or of controversy, and the contrasts of method—having always in view that class of works which have a more than local value and could best be serviceable to criminal science in our country.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But of course the effects which I have mentioned could best be studied in a domestic animal like the dog.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

For pure space between is sufficient to take away the necessity of mutual contact; but bare space in the way is not sufficient to stop motion.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her house-work, or read to her when there was nothing to do.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

v 1 [B2; c1] be, become short, low.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They cannot be trapped by any contrivance, but by singular manoeuvres often themselves decoy the over-curious antelope to approach too near them.
— from The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North by Mayne Reid

Mrs. Hedderwick slackened her pace, not because her desire of vengeance was cooling, but because she did not wish to appear in a panting state.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

Rose and Mabel immediately became as discreet and commonplace and proper as they could be; but Stephanotie knew that the boxes of bon-bons were reposing in each of their pockets and her spirits rose higher than ever.
— from Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl by L. T. Meade

Faint objects can be better seen with the whole surface than with a reduced aperture, and this though apparently a property common to all reflectors and object glasses is not so in reality.
— from On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography by Henry Draper

Du Marsais came, but, before sitting down to table, he begged the actress to do him the favour of reciting a tirade from one of her favourite rôles.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

For the Gentiles, there had begun a sort of "reign of terror," which can be best summed up by an account of a private conference of twelve prominent non-Mormons held as late as 1905.
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon

The cardinal thought I have in mind, which I believe will provide an escape from such intolerable moral dilemmas, can best be set forth by contrasting it with its diametrical opposite.
— from The Essentials of Spirituality by Felix Adler

The army was now organised in three divisions: one under General Turr marched for the centre of the island; the right wing, commanded by Bixio, started for the south-east; and the left, under Medici, was to move along the north coast; all were finally to concentrate at the Straits of Messina.
— from Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“Davidson shuddered at any human creature being brought so low as to have to thank God for the favours or affection of a Bamtz.
— from Within the Tides: Tales by Joseph Conrad

That if a man taketh a wife in the Prouince wherein he holdeth office, the marriage is good, if after the time his Office shall expire, they continue in the same consent [84] : but so that the children borne before, shall not be thereby helde for legitimate.
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir