We ought not, therefore, to infer that equal periods of time are always attended by an equal amount of change in organic life, since a great fluctuation in the mean temperature of the earth, the most influential cause which can be conceived in exterminating whole races of animals and plants, must, in different epochs, require unequal portions of time for its completion.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

So far as I can see, it is this same desire for gain that has driven men into doing every really great thing that has ever been done.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

who, observing with all the intuition of a man in deadly earnest, read in her expression something of what his answer was to be.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

Suffice it now to repeat the opinion that the Code is one of the most important documents ever recovered to elucidate ancient history.
— from The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Many interpreters deny every reference to Christ.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg