In China, a country much richer than any part of Europe, the value of the precious metals is much higher than in any part of Europe.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

H2 anchor Chapter V T he apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the but-ends of their loaded muskets on our door-step, caused the dinner-party to rise from table in confusion, and caused Mrs. Joe re-entering the kitchen empty-handed, to stop short and stare, in her wondering lament of “Gracious goodness gracious me, what's gone—with the—pie!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He fixes Bering's landing place west of Kayak Island, and contends against considering Mt. St. Elias as the promontory seen by Bering, something which would seem quite superfluous.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I was at Schultz's; I had a complication, you know, at first it was my chest and a cough, and then I caught a cold: my lungs and influenza ... and all of a sudden, quite unexpectedly ... the worst of all was its being so unexpected."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He could secure forthwith, if he wished it, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality, could despatch his servant to the neighboring office of a bank for such supply of the precious metals as might seem convenient, and could then proceed abroad to foreign quarters, without knowledge of their religion, language, or customs, bearing coined wealth upon his person, and would consider himself greatly aggrieved and much surprised at the least interference.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

So on Saturday evening, about seven o'clock, Paris by hundreds of thousands is again drawn up: not now dancing the tricolor joy-dance of hope; nor as yet dancing in fury-dance of hate and revenge; but in silence, with vague look of conjecture and curiosity mostly scientific.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Get me a taper in my study, Lucius: When it is lighted, come and call me here.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And on the north side thereof is Monkeswell street, so called of a well at the north end thereof, where the Abbot of Garendon had a house, or cell, called St. James in the wall by Cripplesgate, and certain monks of their house were the chaplains there, wherefore the well (belonging to that cell, or hermitage) was called Monks’ well, and the street, of the well, Monkswell street.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

ENTER CORBACCIO AND CORVINO;— MOSCA PASSES OVER THE STAGE, BEFORE THEM.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Bonnie Lesley it is, my boy, for the luck'--'of the name' trembled on his tongue, but the immaculate collar and cuffs made him alter the phrase to 'the thing.'
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

I know this, that if I were sitting there down on my luck, I should like her to come and console me; but that's different, I suppose.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

Their use in the early guns was not absolutely impossible, but it would have been fruitless; for to prove effective an igneous projectile, whether incendiary or explosive, must contain a considerable mass of combustible matter, and this condition could not 218 be fulfilled with guns of very small calibre.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

And here came a coincidence: M. Camy-Lamotte happened to be a schoolfellow of President Grandmorin.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

Now, our Saint Sheridan used to say that an Institute was a combination of college, circus, and camp meeting.
— from John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. (Dan Brearley) Brummitt

At the same instant there came a confused murmuring sound through the little window far above my head.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

When his mother rises from the sea to comfort him, he refuses consolation, and cries: "My mother, the Olympian hath done all these things; but of what pleasure is this to me, now that my dear friend is dead, Patroclus, whom above all my comrades I honored, even as myself?
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Then glad voices were heard, and up from the banks of the river, Borne aloft on his comrades' arms, came Michael the fiddler.
— from Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you like you can also call me 'The Near'; it's all the same to me."
— from Peasant Tales of Russia by Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko

New Liveries, Coaches, and Clothes must be had, they must, my Friend.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn