But it does mean that this class is not nearly so large as a fairer economic system might easily make it, that those who survive in the competition are handicapped so as to accomplish much less than they deserve to, and that, above all, the personnel of the successful class is left to chance and accident, and not to any intelligent culling or reasonable methods of selection.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

It may also be noted that the physiognomy of a community is not necessarily the same at all times of the year, the distinction sometimes being caused by a rotation of species.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Clifford is not now insane; but the interview which you insist upon may go far to make him so.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Davie Bluster, for a saint ye do muster, The corps is no nice o' recruits; [Footnote 7: James Mackinlay, Kilmarnock.—R.B.] [Footnote 8: Alexander Moodie of Riccarton.—R.B.]
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

`But that I nil not holden him in honde, Ne love a man, ne can I not, ne may Ayeins my wil; but elles wol I fonde, Myn honour sauf, plese him fro day to day; 480 Ther-to nolde I nought ones have seyd nay,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

[100] into smaller groups, or who must leave those smaller groups on their joining the larger organisation, my proposal appeals not only to individuals but to co-operators, manufacturers, philanthropic societies, and others experienced in organisation, and with organisations under their control, to come and place themselves under conditions involving no new restraints but rather securing wider freedom.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Here the totem of the child is not necessarily either that of the mother or that of the father; it is that of a mythical ancestor who came, by processes which the observers recount in different ways, [241] and mysteriously fecundated the mother at the moment of conception.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

From the headland of Quipit and Candicar, the course is north northwest and south southeast without meeting any headland.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

-existence of two characteristics is not necessarily significant that one is cause of the other.
— from Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils: Their Effect on General Intelligence by Margaret Cobb Rogers

What effect the very pious application of the funds of the eleemosynary establishments at Manila may have in checking this savage custom is not noticed by the author; and we have reason to fear the practice is so general, that any attempt to check it by this means might rather tend to stimulate the avarice of the parents, and produce an opposite effect.
— from An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga

Binding in Black Morocco, with Medallions and Coat-of-arms, by Thomas Berthelet (Sixteenth Century) I need not dwell upon the splendid jewelled and silver mounted manuscripts of the scriptures of Byzantine times, which called in the work of other craftsmen, since I presume one is dealing rather with the design of surface ornament as a matter of mass and line adapted to the ordinary conditions of the book-cover.
— from Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical by Walter Crane

Rose liked to read aloud, and gladly gave him the chapter in “Nicholas Nickleby” where the Miss Kenwigses take their French lesson.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Corruption in, not necessary to the Tudors, 209.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

ya , already, certainly, indeed; —— no , no longer.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Their habits are crepuscular if not nocturnal, and Fayrer does not state positively that they or any of the Indian Crotalidæ are viviparous.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley