In war, the action sought is something militarily harmful to the enemy—strikes against his production, panic in his population, complaint from his consumers, mistrust from his newspaper readers and radio listeners (resulting in eventual subversive or negative action on their part), surrender of his troops, disunity of his political leadership to be expressed in deadlocks, and so on.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden, and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That love within my breast enshrined, In death alone shall be resign'd; And when the eve, thou lovest so well, Pours on my soul its soothing spell, I leave the city's busy scene To seek thy dwelling, cold and green,— In quiet sadness here to shed Love's sacred tribute o'er the dead— To dream again of days gone by, And hold sweet converse here with thee; In the soft air to feel thy sigh, Whilst winds and waters answer me.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Now, the great majority of mankind endure life without any great protest, and believe, to this extent, in the value of existence, but that is because each individual decides and determines alone, and never comes out of his own personality [63] like these exceptions: everything outside of the personal has no existence for them or at the utmost is observed as but a faint shadow.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To avoid being engaged in Disputes about these Matters, I have hitherto delayed the printing, and should still have delayed it, had not the Importunity of Friends prevailed upon me.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

‘Here you are, Sir,’ said Mr. Weller, emerging from a sequestered spot, where he had been engaged in discussing a bottle of Madeira, which he had abstracted from the breakfast-table an hour or two before.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Satan is very busily engaged in destroying and misrepresenting God's best experiences.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Lastly, a Nocturnal Council is instituted for the preservation of the state, consisting of older and younger members, who are to exhibit in their lives that virtue which is the basis of the state, to know the one in many, and to be educated in divine and every other kind of knowledge which will enable them to fulfil their office.
— from Laws by Plato

They aim “at making sure of their profit in any case, which is contrary to the nature, not only of commercial wares but of all temporal goods which God wishes to be ever in danger and uncertainty.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Still, if I felt that I could afford the tax, I would never travel without a courier, for a good courier is a convenience whose value cannot be estimated in dollars and cents.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

This experiment proved a success, and Polly next accepted an offer to come three times a week to the house of a certain Mrs. Baer to amuse (instructively) the four little Baer cubs, while the mother Baer wrote a "History of the Dress-Reform Movement in English-Speaking Nations." For this service Polly was paid ten dollars a month in gold coin, while the amount of spiritual wealth which she amassed could not possibly be estimated in dollars and cents.
— from Polly Oliver's Problem by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

When energy is possessed by a system in consequence of the relative positions or motions of bodies which we can handle, and whose movements we may control, the whole of the energy may be employed in doing any work we please; in fact, it is all available for our purpose, or its availability may be said to be perfect.
— from Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett

There is scarcely a single considerable deposit of antiquities dating from the first four centuries, not only in the south and west of Germany but even in Denmark and other Baltic lands, which does not contain a large proportion of Roman
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Sivert is trying to act for the best, and hold his brother back, but Eleseus is determined, ay, for once he is determined.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Sir Robert Filmer wrote that "not only in human laws, but even in divine, a thing may by the king be commanded contrary to law, and yet obedience to such a command is necessary."
— from The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske

The squaws were busily engaged in dressing and tanning buffalo robes; the men stood and looked on.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

“It is not my desire’s wish to have you subservient in any respect, but affectionate in the reciprocation of purity and goodness, so that our companionship may never admit of selfish deviation, but experience in daily appraisement the novelty of new ardor in loving returns.”
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

It is T-shaped, having a front of one hundred and eighty feet by eighty in depth, and with an extension of one hundred and five feet by fifty-four feet.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier