The inhabitants of the English metropolis and country, it may be safely asserted, are looking not to armies as sources of greatness, and objects for gratulation, but to the busy thousands who are deepening and spreading the resources of national wealth by their commercial and manufacturing industry.
— from London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

Women smirked and giggled and called him a naughty fellow, and said they really ought not to let him wait on them.
— from What's-His-Name by George Barr McCutcheon

Abundant sunlight, the recompense of Nature for six flights of stairs, was its sole redeeming virtue.
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

In short, it disgusts both parties (scholars and tradesmen), and satisfies the requirements of neither.
— from International Language, Past, Present & Future With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

The terrible, suppressed rage in his eyes caused a shiver to run over Neal, his face turned a dull white, his eyes stared fearfully.
— from The Boss of the Lazy Y by Charles Alden Seltzer

Still, he and his army seemed to reck of no rival: they at once broke out into the unbridled cruelty, debauchery and oppression of some outlandish court.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

To the inner edge of this plate are secured two rings of non-magnetic metal E , which are insulated from the copper conductor, but held firmly thereto by means of the bolts F .
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin