It enables us to bring our ideas to a logical conclusion with far less effort at concentration than is necessary in that realm where all is in such incessant and turbulent motion.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

Among the higher classes, the Mexican señora and señorita were far less educated and cultivated than their Spanish kindred; yet among the lower classes--not the peons, but the shopkeeper class in the cities, the small landholders in the country--education of a kind was further advanced in Mexico than in Spain.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

If on the top of that they had freed the land, given up the system of forced labour entirely, and cancelled the charters of all the concessionnaire companies, for the obvious reason that they have notoriously abused their powers, then Belgium could go forward in its colonizing enterprise on the same terms as other States, with her sins expiated so far as expiation is now possible.
— from The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle

We came up the river with feelings far less exultant and confident than those experienced in our downward trip.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

He had no other income than the few shillings he received weekly for lighting, extinguishing and cleaning the burgh lamps, and from this he paid his college fees and kept himself fairly respectable.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

Another great feature of Robinson is the family picnic, but the French love ease and comfort too much to dine on the grass under the trees.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

At the same time only the British Empire, and not any of the Dominions, was given a place in the real organ of power, the Executive Council of the League, and in many respects the exact relationship between the United Kingdom and the other parts of the Empire in international affairs was left ambiguous, for later events and counsel to determine.
— from The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

Comstock had been very liberal to the natives in this way, and his object was, no doubt, to attach them as much as possible to his person, as it must have been suggested to his guilty mind, that however he himself might have become a misanthrope, yet there were those around him, whose souls shuddered at the idea of being forever exiled from their country and friends, whose hands were yet unstained [42] by blood, but who might yet imbrue them, for the purpose of escape from lonely exile, and cruel tyranny.
— from A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants by Cyrus M. Hussey