Afterward we frame each letter or note automatically, and think only of the idea and its expression.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

In future years the present tax system, in conjunction with a full employment level of national income, could be expected to yield more than 30 billion dollars, which is substantially above the anticipated peacetime level of expenditures.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Harry S. Truman

( c ) Forms, either luminous or non-luminous.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $NA, NA% of GNP *Virgin Islands, Header Affiliation: (territory of the US) *Virgin Islands, Geography Location: in the eastern Caribbean Sea, about 110 km east and southeast of Puerto Rico Map references: Central America and the Caribbean Area: total area: 352 km2 land area: 349 km2 comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 188 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 m or depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: subtropical, tempered by easterly tradewinds, relatively low humidity, little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season May to November Terrain: mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land Natural resources: sun, sand, sea, surf Land use: arable land: 15% permanent crops: 6% meadows and pastures: 26% forest and woodland: 6% other: 47% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: rarely affected by hurricanes; subject to frequent severe droughts, floods, earthquakes; lack of natural freshwater resources Note: important location along the Anegada Passage - a key shipping lane for the Panama Canal; Saint Thomas has one of the best natural, deepwater harbors in the Caribbean *Virgin Islands, People Population: 98,130 (July 1993 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The fact is, that a discerning eye might have seen that some form or other of the doctrine of transmutation was inevitable, from the time when the truth enunciated by William Smith that successive strata are characterised by different kinds of fossil remains, became a firmly established law of nature.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Ambrosia has been loved for many centuries by Englishwomen; it is in the first English list of names of plants, which was made in 1548 by one Dr. Turner; and in this list it is called "Ambrose."
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Bearing this in mind let us inquire into the various meanings discernible in the very familiar expressions, “laws of nature,” “physical laws,” “natural laws” .
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Situations occur in which certain factors exert little or no influence.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)