We need hardly say we believe in the absolute, the indispensable, the universal necessity of divine conversion.
— from The Great Commission. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. IV by Charles Henry Mackintosh

God's possession of us not only demands consecration, [Pg 41] but it ensures safety.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

An unusual number of differently coloured varieties exist, such as black and brown-breasted reds, duckwings, blacks, whites, piles, etc., with their legs of various colours.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

For the first time his utter neglect of duty came home to him.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

To this may be added, that, early in the thirteenth century, a chivalric association was formed, and afterwards merged in the Dominican order, called the Militia of Christ: ‘un nouvel ordre de chevalerie destiné à poursuivre les hérétiques, sur le modèle de celui des Templiers, et sous le nom de Milice de Christ.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Hence the {126} condition ( a ), or the unlimited number of digits contained in each constant employed, is fulfilled.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage

They were particularly suspicious of the unusual number of diplomatic couriers passing between Berlin and Petrograd.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

You might as well bring into one room unlettered natives of distant climes and expect them all to enter into a general conversation.
— from Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. (William Constantine) Egan

The council is composed of a chairman (who is the prime minister), a first deputy chairman, an unspecified number of deputy chairmen, the ministers, and the heads of certain other important government agencies (see fig.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe