15 The moulds of thought were not then, nor are they even now, entirely ready for the full truth of Christian revelation.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

{158} To think them is to think real, universal, infinite, perfect, necessary, immutable, and eternal being, the ens perfectissimum of St. Anselm, the ens necessarium et reale of the theologians, a greater than which or the contrary of which cannot be thought.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

So will every tribe, every nation, every race, which sets forth to oppose the resistless flow of civilized progress.
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Finally, we could not depend upon Bulgaria siding with the Entente, nor even Roumania; and although Italy would certainly not take up arms against us she had not yet declared herself an Ally.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

And in the end, nothing else really matters.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

For the purposes of the present study I am not recognizing Eleutherodactylus beati , E. dorsoconcolor , and E. venustus as specifically, [Pg 55] or even subspecifically distinct from the earlier named E. rhodopis .
— from A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México by William Edward Duellman

On such days the Senn, even in the depth of winter, appears dressed in a fine white shirt, with the sleeves rolled above the elbows; neatly embroidered red braces suspend his yellow linen trowsers, which reach down to the shoes; he wears a small leather cap on his head, and a new and skilfully carved wooden milk-bowl hangs across his left shoulder.
— from Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey

Our time is but a fleeting shadow, hurrying us on to the end—so it is ordained; and having reached that end, none ever retraces his steps.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

I should feel the greatest satisfaction in punching his head for him, but I suppose it would be hardly the correct thing on so short an acquaintance, and in my father's house too; eh?” “Not exactly,” replied I, turning away with a smile.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

And in the reigns of the successive sovereigns down to a.d. 709, when the capital was for a time established at Nara, we observe it as a most singular circumstance that each new emperor resided in a new palace.
— from Japan by David Murray

“Travellin', eh?” “Not exactly,” replied Cameron.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor