The war with Germany, incident on that country's seizure of the Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporary occupation of Norfolk by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeated naval victories, and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube's forces in the State of New Jersey.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Wherefore let these things remain, according to the order of nature, to some persons certain, to others doubtful, by some approved, by others condemned.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

A pretty heart-shaped one, Micraster cor-anguinum , marks a zone of the higher chalk, which runs along the top of our northern downs.
— from The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes

In this investigation he was guided by the fundamental assumption, that what is called an irregularity, is in truth perfectly regular, and that the operations of nature are invariable.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

This was the reason alleged to the ordinary of Newgate by Spiggott.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

frō whence the first inhabitants there of came, by reason of such diuersitie in iudgements as haue risen amongst the The originall of nations for the most part vncerteine. learned in this behalfe.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

In this investigation he was guided by the fundamental assumption, that what is called an irregularity is in truth perfectly regular, and that the operations of nature are invariable.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

Now we must observe that as God Who is the universal efficient cause requires neither previous matter nor previous disposition of matter in His corporeal effects, for He is able at the same instant to bring into being matter and disposition and form, so neither does He require a previous disposition in His spiritual effects, but is able to produce both the spiritual effect and at the same time the fitting disposition as requisite according to the order of nature.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The departure of the Mirza for this campaign was extremely agreeable to the Diwan, Majad-ud-daulah, for he never lost an opportunity of prejudicing the Emperor's mind against this powerful rival, in whose recent appointment to the office of Naib Vazir, moreover, he had found a special disappointment.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene

As I have already said, there is nothing in the morbid appearances found after death which is characteristic of fatal angina, and in the milder kinds of cardiac neuralgia we are driven back upon the general probabilities which we deal with in reasoning as to the origin of neuralgias in general.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie