“I hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk with you alone!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If the answer is: other capitalists, of course,—then, seeing that the capitalist class is represented in the diagram by the two departments, this portion of the surplus value must also be regarded as invested de facto , as employed in the productive process.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

"Such a book ... revealing as it does the first developments of an industry which has become the mainspring of the national prosperity, ought to be specially interesting to all patriotic Scotchmen."— Saturday Review.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

"Is n't he a beauty?" repeated Agnes, in delighted tones, taking another look at her prisoner herself, and then twisting the bag together again.
— from Ruby at School by Paull, George A., Mrs.

I haven't tried to force myself into any belief about it—it's a mystery—but it has grown into my mind somehow, and become real; and I do feel more and more that there is something very true and great about it, linking us with a life beyond.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

Reuben objected if she made the servant run up and downstairs ten times or so with jugs of hot water to fill a wash-tub in her bedroom—they had once had a battle royal about it, during which Rose had said some humorous things about her man's washing—so in summer she relieved the tension by bathing in the Glotten brook, where it ran temporarily limpid and reclused at the foot of the old hop-garden.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

The enactment of this statute accomplished beneficial results, and it does not appear that injustice or undue hardship resulted therefrom to any person or interest.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

She went boldly up to the broad entrance of the house, and boldly rang at it, drawing her white veil over her face as she did so.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Bounty, defined by some sentimentalist as a "bribe to Neptune," for a while made a stronger appeal; but, ranging as it did from five to almost any number of pounds under one hundred per head, it proved a bribe indeed, and by putting an irresistible premium on desertion threatened to decimate the very ships it was intended to man.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

"I don't trust any man, least of all a Boris Raphael; and I don't trust any woman—not even you.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips