They invented, therefore, another method of issuing their promissory notes; by granting what they call cash accounts, that is, by giving credit, to the extent of a certain sum (two or three thousand pounds for example), to any individual who could procure two persons of undoubted credit and good landed estate to become surety for him, that whatever money should be advanced to him, within the sum for which the credit had been given, should be repaid upon demand, together with the legal interest.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Joy comes and goes: life ebbs and flows, Like the wave.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

smiling, cultivated, and green, like England, but far happier; for slavery which disgraces the New World, and poverty which desolates the Old, are nowhere to be seen.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

In the castles, necessary weaving for the family was done by the women, as on every great lord’s domains were artisans for all crafts; and great ladies emulated Penelope and Helen of old in passing their hours of patience and anxiety with fabricating gorgeous cloths.
— from The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

The Bishop's Shadow The Bishop's Shadow by I.T. Thurston Author of "Boys of the Central," "A Genuine Lady" etc.
— from The Bishop's Shadow by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

Interior of Cathedral at Gerona, looking East.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

I will now consider at greater length each part of the vocal instrument.
— from The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

Only Mr. Chappie and Gaffer Lezzard entered the house and had a wineglass or two of some special sloe gin.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts