What is of far greater importance than the exact representation of the natural fly is, that when the artificial falls on the water there should be nothing else occurring at the same time to scare the fish.
— from Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing by James Tayler

Until modified or revoked by higher authority, it clearly remains the governing influence throughout the entire range of mental effort which, in conjunction with the moral and physical effort, is calculated to result finally in the attainment of the assigned objective.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

The building behind the Temple of Castor in the Forum, now entirely stripped of its architectural decorations, retained its interior order of marble columns until the sixteenth century, and this building also was of great importance to the earlier restorers of antique art: it is thought by modern archæologists to have been the Temple of Augustus, which is known to have existed in this neighborhood.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

At their point of junction were telescopic gates, flung open as soon as the train stopped, and Mrs. Rosamond, who had just time to observe that there were not two rails only on the track, but a third in the middle, hurried into the first car she could find, and the earliest train on the Tube glided into the tunnel en route for the Bank.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

Had he but known it, each of the Galbraiths in their turn esteemed Robert Morton for widely contrasting reasons.
— from Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

These examples are, it is hoped, sufficient to make known the general characteristics of a style which is at the same time of great interest to the English reader from its proximity to our shores, and from its influence on our own, although it is comparatively so familiar as to require less illustration than many others.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

My comment on it is this in general: I think the extreme right is just as much a danger to the freedom of this country as the extreme left.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

A history of this establishment at the extremity of the globe, in a country where the astonished settler sees nothing, not even the grass under his feet, which is not different to whatever had before met his eye, could not but present objects of great interest to the European reader; and the public curiosity has been gratified by the perusal of various respectable publications, wherein the proceedings of the colonists, the country round Port Jackson, its productions, and native inhabitants, are delineated with accuracy, and often with minuteness.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

General index to the Edinburgh review, from its commencement in October 1802, to the end of the twentieth volume, published in November 1812.
— from On the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles With Rules and Examples by Charles C. (Charles Coffin) Jewett

Though he is one of the greatest of the great in the Turkish Empire (ranking with a Cabinet Minister or Lord Chamberlain here), his fine countenance was clouded with care, and savage with ennui.
— from Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray