Likewise if the water in the spring is itself limpid and clear, if there is no growth of moss or reeds where it spreads and flows, and if its bed is not polluted by filth of any sort but has a clean appearance, these signs indicate that the water is light and wholesome in the highest degree.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Love is a contradiction if there is no God.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

Nor is it quite clear if there is no God (by which term let it again be noticed, is meant a Being of supreme intelligence, the contriver of the material universe and yet no part of the material system) that the world in which man inhabits is either fatherless or deserted.
— from Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Matthew Turner

They did not wait to form into one line—that operation would have taken time—but each squadron wheeled up, and, closing in towards its neighbour, galloped forward to back up the General in the charge.
— from Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

He placed Blanche at a convent in the immediate neighbourhood, going to see her daily, and gave himself up to the education of his son.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

It is believed the circumstance, if true, is not generally known in the neighbourhood.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone