Ten thousand lives were sacrificed among the laborers annually while the work was going on, owing to its unhealthy nature; but still the autocratic designer held to his purpose, until finally a respectable but not unobjectionable foundation may be said to have been achieved upon this Finland marsh.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
As test experiments to confirm observations on man, or made with a view of finding a correct theory of the action of snake-poison, these attempts were unobjectionable, although, without an elaborate scientific apparatus and in other than skilled hands, they were not likely to produce results of any value.
"On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote"
A. Mueller
They complain there are so few unobjectionable tracts to give them.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald