A paper money, consisting in bank notes, issued by people of undoubted credit, payable upon demand, without any condition, and, in fact, always readily paid as soon as presented, is, in every respect, equal in value to gold and silver money, since gold and silver money can at anytime be had for it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It was cold in the train; I was travelling first class, but even so there were three on a side, there were no double windows, the outer door opened straight into the compartment, and I felt as though I were in the stocks, cramped, abandoned, pitiful, and my legs were fearfully numb, and
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Within his soul it was like a roaring furnace; he stood waiting, waiting, crouching as if for a spring.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Pg 156 78.—ODD AND EVEN DIGITS.— solution As we have to exclude complex and improper fractions and recurring decimals, the simplest solution is this: 79 + 5 1 / 3 and 84 + 2 / 6 , both equal 84 1 / 3 .
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

These considerations are important for anyone who would like to reflect on the origins, or history of the Kula, since the natural movement of valuables was no doubt the original one, and the Western half of the Kula from this point of view appears to be the older.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In this way, with little cessation, and singing the same songs again and again, the tired and exhausted child kept them in good humour all that night; and many a cottager, who was roused from his soundest sleep by the discordant chorus as it floated away upon the wind, hid his head beneath the bed-clothes and trembled at the sounds.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I was told that the vice-legate offered three hundred crowns, and I felt a real pleasure in contradicting my favoured rival’s desires.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'So now, my lads, for glory!'—Here he turn'd And drill'd away in the most classic Russian, Until each high, heroic bosom burn'd For cash and conquest, as if from a cushion A preacher had held forth (who nobly spurn'd All earthly goods save tithes) and bade them push on To slay the Pagans who resisted, battering
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But a dainty little cupboard can no more entertain black coal and inelegant firewood and keep its daintiness than a mind can entertain black thoughts and yet be sweet.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Carbolineum is an oil of this class, boiling at over 300° C., and intended for application to wood.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Who at this day can believe that he who is in the love of adultery believes nothing of the Word, thus nothing of the church, and even in his heart denies God; and on the other hand, that he who is in the chaste love of marriage is in charity and in faith, and in love to God; also that the chastity of marriage makes one with religion, and the lasciviousness of adultery makes one with naturalism?
— from Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg

Thus ranged, they characterise the two sides of the body as representing, respectively, a right, male side which is the central agency in function, and a left, female side, which is the reservoir of the potential of function.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

The belfry is thus a symbol of a society expecting happiness from neither a dynasty nor from a military despotism, but solely from common institutions, from commerce and industry, from a citizen's life, budding in the shadow of the peaceful church, and borrowing its peaceful architecture from it.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

The new blood of secularism had entered into Romanesque architecture and led to a fresh development of the art in Cyprus as in France Architects applied the thirteenth-century methods, fully recognising their consequences.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer

When a battery is charged, acid is formed, and when this mixes with the diluted electrolyte, a temperature rise occurs.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

Because, however, of the unprecedented growth of the country and its final achievement of economic independence, other reasons were sought to support the protective policy.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

When empty, the back and upper surface of the bladder collapse against its forepart, and in this state the organ lies flattened against the pubic symphysis.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise