We do not look for local colour in, for example, the agreeable essays of euclid.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
However hard both professors and students may labor, it can not be possible in a four-years' course to fill a lad, who has previously had but a common-school education, with a satisfactory knowledge of Latin, high mathematics, euclid, history, English grammar and composition, chemistry, organic and inorganic, geography, geology, mechanics, electricity, polarization of light, and various other studies usually required for the master of arts honors examination in a British university.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
In short, it is absurd and hopeless to bid us limit our contemplation, in a divine narrative, to what can be demonstrated like the propositions of euclid.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick