The mischievous effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members would fill a volume: every new election in the States is found to change one-half of the representatives.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members, however qualified they may be, points out, in the strongest manner, the necessity of some stable institution in the government.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Two simple substances are only capable of a certain number of chemical combinations, which form a regular series of new substances; as for example oxygen and nitrogen.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

One, obvious, course was indicated; but it was a big step for a reserved schoolboy of nineteen.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

" "Then," Frodi cried, "I leave thy roof now, nor ever are we friends again!" "Frodi," answered Rolf, "sleep one night more under my roof; then if thou art minded thou shalt leave me forever.
— from The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow by Allen French

They have no features which proceed from a realistic study of nature.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

The mischievous effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members, would fill a volume; every new election in the states is found to change one half of the representatives.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

These gourds and cylinders, as you see, are of different sizes, so graduated that they form a regular series of notes.
— from Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

It raised them, or at least a portion of them, from a rude state of nature to a higher grade of culture.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz