She is quite capable of a little romantic folly if nobody is near to put some common-sense into her sometimes.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

But this was scarcely needed to secure us breathing space and credit on every side; for no sooner was it known, for all the secrecy with which the matter was treated officially, that Samuel Spoelmann had become the State banker, in fact if not in name, than the skies cleared up above us and all our need was changed into joy and rapture.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

but the best way is; See every man compare his devotion in matters of God, with his spirits and mettle in other affayres, wherein his element or delight lies; if the one equall not the other, the fault is not in nature: the oldest man hath memory enough for his gold, and the coldest constitution heate enough where it likes.
— from A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich by Samuel Ward

He is being punished for it now; if not through remorse of conscience, by coward craven fear.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

Chemistry, since Lavoisier's time, has brought to light a great truth: it is, that nothing of the elements of matter is lost; bodies change their form, but the material element, the simple body, is imperishable, indestructible, and always to be found intact, notwithstanding its numerous transformations.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

The directors of the Bank are, therefore, in fact, if not in name, trustees for the public, to keep a banking reserve on their behalf; and it would naturally be expected either that they distinctly recognized this duty and engaged to perform it, or that their own self-interest was so strong in the matter that no engagement was needed.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

The Bank agrees, in fact, if not in name, to make limited advances on proper security to anyone who applies for it.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

Even after Cromwell had come forward as the chief leader, in fact if not in name, the apparent losses are largely increased by the random massacres to which his soldiers were unfortunately addicted.
— from The Historic Thames by Hilaire Belloc

this Pine Orchard House? many will ask; for its name is not to be found in most books of American travels.
— from Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

She said, 'I will take no gift of thee as now, for I need it not, though hereafter I may ask a gift of thee.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

This made him in fact, if not in name, the French ruler of Acadia, for his Fort St Louis was the only place of any strength in the whole country.
— from The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir