By travelling so very young, by spending in the most frivolous dissipation the most previous years of his life, at a distance from the inspection and control of his parents and relations, every useful habit, which the earlier parts of his education might have had some tendency to form in him, instead of being riveted and confirmed, is almost necessarily either weakened or effaced.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In these cases Barclay, the great champion of absolute monarchy, is forced to allow, that a king may be resisted, and ceases to be a king.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Of suppression of haemorrhoids, haemorrhagia, or bleeding at the nose, menstruous retentions, (although they deserve a larger explication, as being the sole cause of a proper kind of melancholy, in more ancient maids, nuns and widows, handled apart by Rodericus a Castro, and Mercatus, as I have elsewhere signified,) or any other evacuation stopped, I have already spoken.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The plant-community is the lowest form; it is merely a congregation of units, among which there is no co-operation for the common weal, but rather a ceaseless struggle of all against all.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This afternoon I am told again that the town do talk of my Lord Arlington’s being to be Lord Treasurer, and Sir W. Coventry to be Secretary of State; and that for certain the match is concluded between the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, which I am well enough pleased with; and it is pretty to consider how his quality will allay people’s talk; whereas, had a meaner person married her, he would for certain have been reckoned a cuckold at first-dash.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The black ravens and crows flew on over the white snow.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A certain very successful speaker developed voice carrying power by running across country, practising his speeches as he went.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent, started when the bell rang, and colored when John's name was mentioned.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Sixth Corps' front conformed to the line of Cedar Creek; Getty's division being retired, and consequently much nearer than the others to Middletown.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

It occurs as a sign in the following advertisement, which minutely describes the livery of a page in the year of the Restoration :— “On Saturday night last run away from the Lord Rich, Christophilus Cornaro, a Turk christened; a French youth of 17 or 18 years of age, with flaxen hair, little blew eyes, a mark upon his lip, and another under his right eye; of a fair complexion, one of his ears pierced, having a pearl-coloured suit, trimmed with scarlet and blue ribbons, a coat of the same colour with silver buttons; his name Jacob David.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

But as many habits, at first painfully formed under compulsion only, become easy through constant repetition, and at last automatic, so the conduct compelled through many generations by religious and civil authority, tends eventually to become almost instinctive.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

After the usual sacrifices to the Cemi they worked themselves into a religious ecstasy; while in this condition they were questioned on subjects of interest, such as the probability of war, battles and death, their answers being received as coming direct from the Gods.
— from Cuban Folk-Lore by L. Roy Terwilliger

For this, these publick things and I, agree So ill, that but to do a right for thee, I had not been perswaded to have hurl'd These few, ill spoken lines, into the world, Both to be read, and censur'd of, by those, Whose very reading makes Verse senseless Prose: Such as must spend above an hour, to spell A Challenge on a Past, to know it well:
— from The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by John Fletcher

In 1770, seven years after Montfleury had set the ball rolling, a certain Le Boulanger de Chalussay, of whom little or nothing seems to be known, attacked Molière in a play called Élomire hypocondre, ou les Médicins vengés —Élomire being, of course, an anagram of Molière.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

The worthy and valiant Templars, the Red Brothers, as the common folks called them, had built there a place of refuge for the fugitives of the whole kingdom, and whenever a vagrant Tatar band came after them they were bravely repulsed, and could not take them by force.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

The blue rays are called actinic, and when we speak of actinic light we mean the blue rays which produce the chemical change in the sensitive plate.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 by Various

Meantime, directly the alarm had been received at Chandos Street, it was, as is customary, sent on to the station of the superintendent of the district, and thence it was circulated to all the stations in the district, and also to headquarters.
— from Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames. by F. M. (Frederic Morell) Holmes

Her abode was scarcely a flat, in the accepted sense of the word, but rather a collection of rooms on the first floor of a fine old Georgian mansion in Caroline Street.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume