[808] The difference between the two versions becomes still smaller and is reduced to almost nothing, if we observe that, when Spencer and Gillen tell us that the ancestral soul is incarnated in the woman, the expressions they use are not to be taken literally.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

On the Duty of Man and Citizen (published at Lund, where he was professor, in 1672–73), did much to establish the utilitarian and naturalistic tendency in ethics which was at work at the same time in England; but his latent deism had no great influence even in Germany, his Scripture-citing orthodoxy countervailing it, although he argued for a separation of Church and State.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

"Article first of the treaty embodied the usual and necessary obligation of such pacts—the pledge to exchange views upon any fact and economic questions of a general nature that might arise pursuant to its terms.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish

He undertook to explain the use and nature of those things which were new to them.
— from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

3. Not so as to exclude the use and need of Scripture, ministry, sermons, books, conference, examples, use, or other means and helps.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

“They were in rather high spruce trees, within two or three feet of the extreme top, usually as near the top as suitable site and cover could be secured.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

Accordingly, I dwell here without the light of any human countenance or voice, and strap away at The Ebb Tide until (as now) I can no more.
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson

On the night of the 30th of June the enemy threw up a new barricade within two feet of the American one.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty