He states that the eclipse came on much earlier than had been predicted.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers

From Fréjus, St. Raphaël, or La Napoule, or even Cannes, one may enter the Estérel and lose himself to the world, if he likes, for a matter of a week, or ten days, or a fortnight, and never so much as have a suspicion of the conventional Riviera gaieties which are going on so close at hand.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"That's easy to say, Mr. Wolverton, but it takes every cent of my earnings to pay my monthly expenses.
— from Bob Burton; or, The Young Ranchman of the Missouri by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

There are some natures that seem to require some extraordinary circumstance or moral earthquake to "draw them out."
— from The Water-Finders by Judith Vandeleur

Sir Edward Coke once more endeavoured to say what [532] he had not been able to say before, but which must be said, and none so proper as this veteran statesman to say it.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

But though it be allowed by the materialists themselves that Matter was thought of only for the sake of supporting accidents, and, the reason entirely ceasing, one might expect the mind should naturally, and without any reluctance at all, quit the belief of what was solely grounded thereon; yet the prejudice is riveted so deeply in our thoughts, that we can scarce tell how to part with it, and are therefore inclined, since the thing itself is indefensible, at least to retain the name, which we apply to I know not what abstracted and indefinite notions of being, or occasion, though without any show of reason, at least so far as I can see.
— from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley

Ability and environment are each composed of many elements that differ greatly in character.
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton

Then we are told ... not only is the stroke in golf an extremely difficult one—it is also an extremely complicated one, more especially the drive, in which its principles are concentrated.
— from The Soul of Golf by P. A. (Percy Adolphus) Vaile