The motivating force of human society is fundamentally economic; since there is not sufficient nourishment to support its members without work on their part, the number of these members must be limited and their energies diverted from sexual activity to labor.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But the principles on which an assign could have the benefit of these covenants were derived from those which governed warranty, as any one may see by looking at the earlier decisions.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Like the good Prussian he was, Rodbertus put capitalist commodity production as a whole in the dock, as offending against the obtaining constitutional law, instead of pointing out its inherent contradiction, [Pg 243] the conflict between determining the value of labour and determining the value created by labour, as the English disciples of Ricardo had done.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

The troops being landed, and the enemy driven off, or not opposing the landing, the army will change its front to the left, and form in order of battle in the following manner: The two brigades of regular troops, and two of the volunteers, to be formed in two lines at right angles to the shore of the lake.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

The canal that De Lesseps proposed was to be larger, and the engineering difficulties greater.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

The freedom from rules and restraint was to be laid aside, the easy dress must be replaced by the methodical cut, the manners and acts must be shaped to those of others, and we were to conduct ourselves henceforward according to the received and established pattern.
— from Superior Fishing Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

By one of their clever tricks the Germans had made the buildings look as though entirely deserted.
— from A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey

"Appoint him an ambassador," muttered Westervelt, coming up behind Lydman as the elevator door slid smoothly open.
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

The glance rested for a moment on Durham as a faint wan smile flickered round the corners of the bloodless lips and the eyelids drooped again.
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

It relates to the way in which he came to publish the work, and gives a deeply interesting account of the pecuniary embarrassments under which he had for some time been laboring, and then eloquently defends the publication of what is real, and glowing in private life and experience.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

Whether it be large animals that eat down the stem—as goats prevent the extension of pines—or birds that devour the fruit, or insects that attack some vital organ, or vegetable parasites that disorganize the tissues, the chances are great that in a new region the species will not find the enemies that have been adapted to check its extension in its native home.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

Parliamentary plans on these lines approved of by James Walker, Consulting Engineer to the Trustees, were submitted to and sanctioned by Parliament in 1840; but so inadequate was the appreciation of the depth required, that 20 ft. at high water neap tides was recommended by Logan as the extreme depth of the river and harbour, and a clause in the Act empowering the deepening to proceed until every part thereof shall have attained at least a depth of 17 ft. at high water neap tides.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans