This is probably the real explanation of the ceremony, but it is not the explanation given by the Todas themselves.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It may well be, said Sir Kay, for yet heard I never that ever good knight came out of Cornwall.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Is not that enough? Give her back to me one day, one hour, one minute; one minute, Lord!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

As soon as the ceremony of his investiture had been performed, Constantius addressed him with the tone of authority which his superior age and station permitted him to assume; and exhorting the new Caesar to deserve, by heroic deeds, that sacred and immortal name, the emperor gave his colleague the strongest assurances of a friendship which should never be impaired by time, nor interrupted by their separation into the most distant climes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As soon as the ceremony of his investiture had been performed, Constantius addressed him with the tone of authority which his superior age and station permitted him to assume; and exhorting the new Cæsar to deserve, by heroic deeds, that sacred and immortal name, the emperor gave his colleague the strongest assurances of a friendship which should never be impaired by time, nor interrupted by their separation into the most distant climes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In fact, to ascertain it from the plate, it is necessary to employ glasses which enabled us to embrace a certain extent of the photographic image.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

All honorary and useless military titles and employments were abolished, and the law on that subject contains the following curious provision: "In naming the eight generals spoken of by the Constitution, from whom must [Pg 466] be chosen the commander-in-chief of the army, all Colombians over twenty-one shall be considered as generals of the republic."
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

With the Lepidoptera it is necessary to exercise greater care.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

For some reason which the committee did not deem it necessary to explain, General Stone was not furnished with the names of the witnesses who had testified against him in the dark; their testimony was not submitted to him; it was not even read in his hearing.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

It is necessary to exercise great care, or the membranes connecting the cartilages together will be cut through; and on the other hand, unless the work in the neighborhood of the arytenoids be cautiously done, these cartilages may be injured, and it is most important that their swivel-like action and their relations to the true vocal bands be observed.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills

With the increasing noise the excitement grew apace.
— from Boy Scouts on the Open Plains; Or, The Round-Up Not Ordered by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson