Every such branch is evidently upon a level with all the other branches of trade which are carried on without bounties, and cannot, therefore, require one more than they.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She dropped her book and ceased to rock her doll; she gazed at me with gravity and earnestness.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Mrs. March is as brisk and cheery, though rather grayer, than when we saw her last, and just now so absorbed in Meg's affairs that the hospitals and homes, still full of wounded "boys" and soldiers' widows, decidedly miss the motherly missionary's visits.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Mystery is isolation, exception, or it may be apparent contradiction: the resolution of the mystery is found in assimilation, identity, fraternity.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

In the practical department of human art we easily find connexions such as this; e.g. a house, no doubt, is the cause of the money received for rent, but also conversely the representation of this possible income was the cause of building the house.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Short-sighted man!—go seek the mountain's brow, And cast thy raptured eye o'er hill and dale; The waving woods, the ever-blooming vale, Shall spread a feast before thee, which till now Ne'er met thy gaze—obscured by passion's sway; And Nature's works shall teach thee how to pray.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

When Bossuet and Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with a rampart higher than a man.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Being anxious carefully to reperuse these, and afterwards to make acquaintance with other works of the same kind, he found himself an object of contempt, and was laughed (523) at for his lectures, instead of their gaining him fame or profit.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

These were processed by a computer to remove the known variations in Mariner 9 camera response and geometric distortions, as well as to enhance surface detail.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

It begins at the lower end of the breast-bone and crosses to ribs back and down, in a slanting direction to the third or fourth lumbar vertebra.
— from Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still

The consequence was, that the whole operation was paralysed, and the French army, instead of being extinguished on the field, was allowed by a convention to retire from the country.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

On the opposite side of the room is a chimney-like flue, running to the top of the building and containing two registers, by the opening and closing of which the movements of the air in the room can be controlled.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

"Well, don't be a chump, then," replied Steve.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

Of [147] course it wasn't pleasant to be everywhere hailed as "Corporal" Graham, and to be compelled, whether in ranks or out, wherever he moved, to stalk along with his shoulders braced back, his little fingers on the seams of his trousers and the palms of his hands turned square to the front, his elbows in consequence being spitted to his side like the wings of a trussed chicken; but this was the method resorted to with one and all the new-comers, whether naturally erect or not, to square the shoulders, flatten the back, and counteract the ridiculous carriage of so many—at least, of the Eastern city boys.
— from Cadet Days: A Story of West Point by Charles King

Had this action continued undisturbed, the result would have [53] been a nugget with a nucleus of lead salts, or if there had been a current to remove the results of the decomposition, a nugget without a nucleus of foreign matter.”
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

After dinner they carefully discussed the situation in order that every possible accident might be foreseen, argued the pros and cons of the venture in all their bearings, and even went so far as to plan the vengeance they would take should, by any chance, the rescue fail or come too late.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

It is said that Torquemada used to shed tears over the agonies of his victims and that he recommended slow burning, not because he wished to inflict pain, but because he really desired to give the gentleman or lady he was burning a chance to repent of his or her sins, and make his or her peace with God previous to becoming a cinder.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

" Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson