What we need at the present time more than anything else is a spiritual unity such as, perhaps, will only be the distant result of our present special activities.
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood

This quaint old room was formerly open for its full length, and looked very picturesque with its double row of oaken pillars supporting the floor of the chamber above, and deeply recessed windows, the oaken shutters, as well as the pillars, graven with the names of former Etonians.
— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

But absolutism , whether the outcome of Divine Right or of popular sovereignty, is always the same and steadily works against the true principles of Poli
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

[Pg 273] well-marked and easily defined races of one primitive species, the gradation from one form to the other being very regular, and agreeing with the general variation attendant upon geographical distribution.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway