Placed out of the reach of attack, both by remoteness and Insignificancy, our only dread lay lest those supplies intended for our consumption should be captured.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
Nor is the suggestion unreasonable, even if it had been made, that the government might improperly oppress and harass the militia, the better to reconcile them to the idea of regular troops, who might relieve them from the burthen, and to render them less opposed to the measures it might be disposed to adopt for the purpose of reducing them to that state of Insignificancy and uselessness.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford
Now the tribe has been reduced to comparative Insignificancy by this dreadful scourge.
"Monsieur Violet"
Frederick Marryat