In his book upon Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia , [185] he had already pointed out that totemism supposes a likeness in nature, either natural or acquired, of men and animals (or plants).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The house, though large, is neither elegant nor comfortable.—It looks like a great inn, crowded with travellers, who dine at the landlord’s ordinary, where there is a great profusion of victuals and drink, but mine host seems to be misplaced; and I would rather dine upon filberts with a hermit, than feed upon venison with a hog.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Los ingleses no entienden nada de eso.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Yet it is also śûnyatâ, negation or the void, because it cannot be said to possess any of the attributes of the world we live in: neither existence nor non-existence, nor unity nor plurality can be predicted of it.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

To be a perfect stranger to literature is not, even now, a disgrace among the better class of Spaniards.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

At Talladega the land is neither extensive nor very fertile, yet yields fairly.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 2, February, 1882 by Various

But inasmuch as the Moon’s orbit does not lie in quite the same plane as the Earth’s, but is inclined thereto at an angle which may be taken to average about 5⅛°, the actual facts are different; that is to say, instead of there being in every year about 25 eclipses (solar and lunar in nearly equal numbers), which there would be if the orbits had identical planes, there are only a very few eclipses in the year, never, under the most favourable circumstances, more than 7, and sometimes as few as 2.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers

We accordingly find among the laws of William I. a law enacting feudal law itself, not EO NOMINE, but in effect, inasmuch as it requires from all persons the same engagements to, and introduces the same dependence upon, the king as supreme lord of all the lands of England, as were supposed to be due to a supreme lord by the feudal law.
— from Landholding in England by Fisher, Joseph, F.R.H.S.

In the deserted harems of the chiefs at Cairo, and in the neighbouring villages, men at length found proofs that "eastern luxury" is no empty name.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

I can't take the title, but luckily the land is not entailed now.
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

“Beauty of her kind,” Gavin explained learnedly, “is neither earthly nor heavenly.”
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie