Hence, the expression "enzymes are colloids," means only that enzymes exist in the colloidal condition, and not that enzymes represent a definite type of substances having the group name "colloids."
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

He nowhere refers to the fact that any system which looks to compelling a nation to export raw produce, tends necessarily to the impoverishment of the land and its owner, and to the diminution, of the freedom of the labourer, and yet that such was the case could scarcely have escaped his observation.
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey

If Jefferson Davis [V2:pg 48] had in truth created a nation then early recognition must be given it.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

All was dark below and for an instant the Englishman came as near to experiencing real terror as he had ever come in his life before.
— from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

But if any such idea had been in his mind, it soon vanished, for almost the instant I was in the saddle, he wheeled himself about and led the way eastward, whipping and spurring his horse as if it were a devil's ride he contemplated, and not that easy, restful canter under the rising moon demanded by our excited spirits and the calm, exquisite beauty of the summer night.
— from The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green