10 The insignificance to which the priests had reduced the devil in the plays, where they were usually the actors, reflected their own petty routine of life.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Thus the only positive result of Louis Nassau's victory was the execution of his imprisoned friends.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

No suggestion of passion, feeling, or even thoughtfulness, did they give; and in fact the only possible result of looking at this face which some people called expressive, was a feeling that the man himself was calmly conscious of the fact that some people were in the habit of calling his face expressive.
— from Daireen. Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

I am glad to find that Corner Camp showed up well; in fact, in more than one place remains of last year's pony walls were seen.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

To the Powers :— The Revolutionary Government of the Philippines, on being constituted, explained, by means of a message of the 23rd June last, the real causes of the Philippine Revolution, and went on to show that this popular movement is the result of those laws which regulate the life of a nation ardently desiring progress, and the attainment of perfection by the only possible road of liberty.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

Wilkinson ( Londina Illustrata , vol. i.) gives an account of the City conduits:— 235 “In addition to the Great and Little Conduits in West-Cheap, the other public reservoirs of London consisted of the following.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

Let us remember that Jesus was condemned by the principle of separation because he himself was the externalisation of the principle of Unity, and that, in adhering to the principle of Unity we are adhering to the only possible root of Life, and are maintaining the Truth for which Jesus died.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward