However unimportant such abandoned rights may appear, experience has shown that the results are not so.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

To these Superiors, in many diligent Writings, we have proposed, as we think, many unanswerable Scriptures, and Reasons much advanced beyond those represented by our Party to the former Nicene Council (and therefore from which Evidences of ours we have just cause to hope from a future Council a contrary Sentence); and finding no redress by their calling another Council for a reviewing this Point, we cannot but conceive it as lawful for a Socinian Church, Pastor, or Bishop, to reform for themselves, and the Souls committed to them, in an Error appearing to them manifest and intolerable , as for the Protestants, or for Dr. Luther , to have done the same for Transubstantiation, Sacrifice of the Mass, and other Points that have been concluded, against the Truth, by several former Councils.
— from The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism by R. H.

Bookm 45:650 Ag ‘17 330w “It is not all of equal merit, but at least in the figures of this beautiful Giulia and of her ‘Cousin’ Cesare he has made us see a real man and woman of much more than ordinary fascination.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

e, or, the Irish Emigrant in the United States; and Rob Maxwell, a Tale of the Highlands of Scotland.
— from Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel by Anonymous

"I've always been remarkable for an unusually strong and retentive memory, as you know very well—but it isn't superhuman.
— from Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland

"I thought you had given up slang, Alan," remarked Mrs. Adams, as she motioned him to a chair beside her.
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray