Part time employment [67] tends to low standards of living, because during the period of reduced financial income the standards of living are lowered, and when it is found that the family can exist on the reduced income there is little inducement for seeking work since the desire for economy and saving is not greatly developed among the working classes of Porto Rico.
— from Social Problems in Porto Rico by Fred K. Fleagle
Has not my daughter explained, and she is not given to colouring things falsely.”
— from The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The refutation of popular errors, even in theology, is not gospel; the criticism of traditional theories, even about Scripture, is not gospel; the intellectual "economy," with which a clever man in a dubious position uses language about the Bible or its doctrines which to the simple means Yes, and to the subtle qualifies the
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney
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