The Bank of England, notwithstanding their great annual coinage, found, to their astonishment, that there was every year the same scarcity of coin as there had been the year before; and that, notwithstanding the great quantity of good and new coin which was every year issued from the bank, the state of the coin, instead of growing better and better, became every year worse and worse.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Isabel of course knew nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The affected bone being exposed secundum artem , first the broader ones are to be used, then the smaller down to the narrowest.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Your hair is darker, and your eyes Touch'd with a somewhat darker hue, And less aerially blue, But ever trembling thro' the dew 4 Of dainty-woeful sympathies.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

(?) None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

the rock of the clifts this evening is a hard black grannite like that of the clifts of most parts of the river below the limestone clifts at the 3 forks of the Missouri this evening just before we encamped Drewyer discovered a brown bear enter a small cops of bushes on the Lard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

India alone boasts black ebony; the best incense is produced in Sabaea; the sphragitid earth at Lemnos; so this island is the only place where such fine pears grow.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

A brief address on those occasions would not be mistimed, wherein a judicious instructor would take the opportunity of referring to the sufferings of the primitive Christians; to the torments of martyrs; to the exhortations of our blessed Lord Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; to His warnings that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, “If ye suffer hunger or thirst for My sake, happy are ye.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

[A; ab] 1 cut a tail off or short, usually of animals but by extension, also of fowl.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The sovereign can only be considered collectively and as a body, but each individual, as a subject, has his private and independent existence.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sometimes he started abruptly, and a bright but evanescent flush darted over his faded and hollow cheek; and once the fingers of the thin hand which lay upon the bed expanded and suddenly closed in a firm and almost painful grasp; it was then that for the first time the words of the artist became distinct.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Glancing briefly at the title-pages of the first two, he threw them in a corner with a brief but emphatic "Rubbish!"
— from The Call of the Town: A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Chip's jealousy of Dr. Cecil Grantham, who turns out to be a big, blue eyed young woman is very amusing.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

Take three times as much water as honey; then let the tubs, that the honey must be wrought in, be cleansed very clean with scalding water, so that it may not prove sowre; also when you mix them together, take half-warm-water, and half cold, and squeese them well together; Afterwards when you think the honey is well melted, then let it run through a sieve; and see your kettle of Copper or Iron (but Copper is better than Iron) be very clean; then put in your spice, as, Nutmegs, Ginger, Cloves, Cardamome, Anisseeds, Orange peel; put these in according to the quantity you make, and let them all be bruised, except the Orange peel, which leave whole.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

A regulation stipulated that "noe Gentleman shall speak in the forenoon to the Regent about any businesse, but either in Italian, French, or Latin; but if any gentleman be deficient in all these languages, then shall he deale with some professour or other to speak unto the regent for him in the morning, but in the afternoon free accesse shall be granted to all that have any occasion to conferre with him."
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

[1] (202) 667-4563 consulate(s) general: Cleveland, New York Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Thomas B. ROBERTSON embassy: Presernova 31, 1000 Ljubljana mailing address: American Embassy Ljubljana, US Department of State, 7140 Ljubljana Place, Washington, DC 20521-7140 telephone: [386] (1) 200-5500 FAX: [386] (1) 200-5555 Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red, with the Slovenian seal (a shield with the image of Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the center; beneath it are two wavy blue lines depicting seas and rivers, and above it are three six-pointed stars arranged in an inverted triangle, which are taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Celje, the great Slovene dynastic house of the late 14th and early 15th centuries); the seal is located in the upper hoist side of the flag centered in the white and blue bands Economy Slovenia Economy - overview: With a GDP per capita substantially greater than the other transitioning economies of Central Europe, Slovenia is a model of economic success and stability for its neighbors in the former Yugoslavia.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Here was the doll bought in Nikko, and bouncing balls, ever so many; and in a piece of rice paper, still ferocious, but terribly old and warped, the famous dragon.
— from The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The head-dress is a brilliant black enamel, as are also the bamboo tubes and rod which he carries in his right hand; the latter and the face are in biscuit, and the beard is aubergine.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker