This nonobservance of the fact of puberty would be very remarkable, since its observance is so widespread among primitive people, were it not for the fact that the Igorot has developed the olag - an institution calculated to emphasize the fact and significance of puberty.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
The stamp of publicity had of course been fully given by her confinement and departure, and the change itself was now ushered in by our nonobservance of the regular custom of the schoolroom.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
At any rate, the grammars of different languages must needs differ as much as do the languages themselves, otherwise some of their principles will of course be false; and we have already seen that the nonobservance of this has been a fruitful source of error in respect to English syntax.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown