JOHN SKELTON Was born of an ancient family in Cumberland, he received his education at Oxford, and entering into holy orders was made rector of Dysso in Norfolk in the reign of Henry VIII.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

True, a mistake as to the definition, yet does it not indicate the reason of its use politically and otherwise?
— from Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

The two young people remained silent for some moments: the thoughts of Guillen [Pg 142] were not less sad than those of Teresa: first he thought of the happiness that would be his if Teresa loved him, and if they could be united, and this dream lulled him for a moment; he then awoke from it, and thought how difficult, if not impossible, the realisation of it would be.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

In so far as the community tolerates functionless property it makes difficult, if not impossible, the restoration of the small master in agriculture or in industry, who cannot easily hold his own in a world dominated by great estates or capitalist finance.
— from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

Any deviation in number is the result of embryonic change occurring between the sixth and fifteenth week, for the temporary teeth, and the fifteenth week and birth for the permanent.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot