So it will be all right as far as THAT goes.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Thence down with Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Rider, who was there (going along with us from the East Indya house to-day) to discourse of my Lord Peterborough’s accounts, and then walked over the Parke, and in Mr. Cutler’s coach with him and Rider as far as the Strand, and thence I walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, where by agreement I met my wife, and there dined with the young ladies; my Lady, being not well, kept her chamber.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After first consulting the god at Delphi and receiving a favourable answer, they sent off the colonists, Spartans, and Perioeci, inviting also any of the rest of the Hellenes who might wish to accompany them, except Ionians, Achaeans, and certain other nationalities; three Lacedaemonians leading as founders of the colony, Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The hair of the bear is enclosed in a casket or cylinder, and tied to the girdle round the loins of male children, and in strings round the neck of female children, as a remedy against fever, and to prevent involuntary discharge of urine during sleep.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Thine enemy, King, am I. With thine own hand thou slewest my dear lord, A knight of Uther in the Barons' war, When Lot and many another rose and fought Against thee, saying thou wert basely born.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The first is from the Kingdom's Intelligencer of June 5, 1662, and reads as follows: At the Exchange Ally from Cornhill into Lumber Street neer the Conduit, at the Musick-Room belonging to the Palsgrave's Hall, is sold by retayle the right coffee powder; likewise that termed the Turkey Berry, well cleansed at 30d.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As it was, she could only say, "You are too kind," and begin to shovel tea into the pot, as Kitty came in, as rosy and fresh as the daisies she put in her hair.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

59: then the pavement, continuing to rise, begins to open with a longitudinal crack, as at b ; then the points of the fractured ridge reach the roof, as at c ; and, lastly, the upraised beds close up the whole gallery, and the broken portions of the ridge are reunited and flattened at the top, exhibiting the flexure seen at d.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The river Aar is by our side, leaping from ledge to ledge in its rapid descent; dashing now against rocks and foaming around them and onward, as if maddened by every obstacle and brooking no delay.
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

But, although each of the notable Athenians has his peculiar place and way of holding forth, there is a regular intercourse among them all; and accounts current of praise or censure are as regular and frequent among the Athenians, as those of cash are among other people.
— from The Modern Athens A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital. by Robert Mudie

Now she was again to be a reproach among Friends and to feel that these people had brought into her quiet home for her child only misfortune and sorrow.
— from The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

'T ain't many fellers ever has as real a friend as that!"
— from Buffalo Roost A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley

But she saw only Silvius Antonius, as he stood there, decked with pearls and rings, and fair as the sunrise.
— from From a Swedish Homestead by Selma Lagerlöf

For among all religions, all faiths, all theories of the unknown there are only these two ideas, Personality or Law, free will or inevitableness.
— from The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding

It is a confused and patchwork philosophy, drawn, consciously or unconsciously, from many quarters—from the old cosmopolitan tradition of German culture, dating from Goethe and Leasing; from the brave and arrogant claims of Fichte and the prophets and poets of the Napoleonic era; from the far-reaching influence of Hegel and his idealisation of the Prussian State; from the reaction to "realism" in politics after 1848; from the prestige of Bismarck and the deep impression made by the apparent success of his methods and principles; from the gifted Prussian historians, Treitschke and Sybel, who set their own interpretation upon Bismarck's work and imprinted it, by speech and pen, upon the mind of the German nation; and from a hasty interpretation of the theories of writers like Nietzsche and Thomas Carlyle, with their exaltation of "heroes" and "supermen," their encouragements to "live dangerously," their admiration for will-power as against reason and feeling, and their tirades against legal shams, "ballot-box democracy," and flabby humanitarianism.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

I really hardly know what it's like, as I arrive there about twelve o'clock every night and fall into bed, and then up again at 7.30 next morning as a rule, and frowsy at that.
— from Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson

They finally started for the house; and when they saw their mamma standing at the dining-room window watching, Pet and Milly joined hands, and ran as fast as they could towards home: they could not tell exactly why, except that they felt like it.
— from The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan by Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson