And hence the sentiment, when pure, creates a sort of companionship of beings robed in celestial light and exorcises those degrading passions which belong to earth.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

For by its elaborate services the Church has far too much identified religion with that worship which can only be rendered in church.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Their adhesion, from which the cohesion of bodies results, is clearly an effect of their mutual attraction.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

One comic opera Bank registered in Calcutta in 1910 put down £20,000,000, without having at the time of the last return any paid–up capital at all.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

Under Afghan (Sunni) rule these ceremonies were often [ 59 ] interdicted, or at least restricted; but now they are able to carry them on unhindered, and pray for the continuance of British rule in consequence.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

CHAPTER II The Dutch and the Natives. Hottentot Character At the commencement of British rule in Cape Colony (1806) there were in the country 26,000 persons of European descent, chiefly Dutch; 17,000 Hottentots who wandered around the outskirts of settlement and made a precarious livelihood by raising or stealing cattle; and 29,000 slaves.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

The Assiniboine attacked Mountain-chiefs camps on Big River in Canada, at night, but did not kill anyone.
— from The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

Or we may take an illustration from the modern use of a telegraphic code: if suzaw means ‘I have not received your telegram,’ or sempo ‘reserve one single room and bath at first-class hotel’—we have unanalyzable wholes capable of being rendered in complete sentences, but not in every way analogous to these sentences.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen