The fact that war to no small extent removes cultural repressions and allows the instincts to come to expression in full force is undoubtedly a considerable factor.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

They may be sure that no such extensive reform could possibly be accomplished without defects appearing somewhere.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

No such extended record could be made of American sun-dials; but it pleases me that I know of over two hundred sun-dials in America, chiefly old ones; that I have photographs of many of them; that I have copies of many hundred dial mottoes, and also a very fair collection of the old dial faces, of various metals and sizes.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

He despatched to her cloves, nutmegs, spices, eringo roots, "coronation" and stock-gilly-flower seed, "colly flower seed," hearth brushes (these came every year), silver whistles and several pomanders and pomander-beads, bouquet-glasses (which could hardly have been the bosom bottles which were worn later), necklaces, amber beads, many and varied pins, needles, silk lacings, kid gloves, silver ink-boxes, sealing-wax, gilt trunks, fancy boxes, painted desks, tape, ferret, bobbin, bone lace, calico, gimp, many yards of ducape, lustring, persian, and other silk stuffs--all these items of transport show the son's devoted selection of the articles his mother wished.
— from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

On the Southern as on the Northern side every really capable general was embarrassed by the ignorant and intrusive dictation of men in place above him.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

[267] No such established reverence could have been felt for this document, unless there had existed for a long time prior to Peisistratus, the habit of regarding and listening to the Iliad as a continuous poem.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

'No,' said Edward rather curtly.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb