Such a situation might easily be hopeless for an organism reacting directly to the stimulus abc, and yet be easily met by a free knowledge of d.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
The first booklet of the charts for the Latin schools of the Middle Ages contained the abc; the second, the first reading-material, viz.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
All of which was doubtless very romantic and unmodern in a sensible young man of Brockway's practical and workaday upbringing; but there are more curious seeds lying dormant in the soil of human nature than the analyst has ever yet classified; and ideality and romanticism are but skin-masked in many a man whose outward presentment is merely the abc of modern realism.
"A Romance in Transit"
Francis Lynde