The construction of dwellings is no exception, and the nests of the Sociable Weaver Birds of South Africa are the best constructed that can be found.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

[264] The chronology of the conquests of Darius is not easy to fix.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

From controlling one director in Northwestern Electric, he had played kitchen politics until he controlled the two-thirds majority.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

In these recommendations I am not forgetting that an effective check on diplomacy is not easy to devise, and that high personal character and class disinterestedness (the latter at present unattainable) on the part of our diplomatists will be as vital as ever.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

[223] on The Character of Dogs is not entirely satisfactory.
— from Rustic Sounds, and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir