He lets it cover any process of conduction from a present idea to a future terminus, provided only it run prosperously.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Such corvees, as they are called, make one of the principal instruments of tyranny by which those officers chastise any parish or communeaute, which has had the misfortune to fall under their displeasure.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Most of them bear some traces of their foreign extraction, and though they have been much modified by the Malays, and are now quite “naturalised” in the Peninsula, it is pretty clear that the greater part have been borrowed from India, Siam, China, and possibly other countries.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But if they are to be channelled out, the contour of the channelling may be determined thus: draw a square with sides equal in length to the breadth of the fluting, and centre a pair of compasses in the middle of this square.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In the evening, which they had reached the church and palace of Constantine, he thanked and dismissed the numerous assembly, with an invitation to the festival of the ensuing day.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Given a Trio of Propositions of Relation, of which every two contain a Pair of codivisional Classes, and which are proposed as a Syllogism; to ascertain whether the proposed Conclusion is consequent from the proposed Premisses, and, if so, whether it is complete.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Proof.—An emotion towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, is greater than one towards what we conceive to be necessary (III. xlix.), and, consequently, still greater than one towards what we conceive as possible, or contingent (IV. xi.).
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

At the pious solicitation of the clergy and people of Constantinople, his relics, thirty years after his death, were transported from their obscure sepulchre to the royal city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

All the refuse of the garden, in the shape of roots, leaves, and stalks, should be placed in a corner of his pound or feeding-chamber, for the delectation of his leisure moments; and once a week, on the family washing-day, a pail of warm soap-suds should be taken into his sty, and, by means of a scrubbing-brush and soap, his back, shoulders, and flanks should be well cleaned, a pail of clean warm water being thrown over his body at the conclusion, before he is allowed to retreat to his clean straw to dry himself.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Can I forget our croft and plot of corn; Our garden, stored ...
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Copper was sitting in his favorite chair, a pile of completed assemblies neatly stacked beside her, and a disorderly file of crumpled cloth at her feet.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

I have a vivid recollection of the preparation of the rations on the previous night: a vast joint of beef nicely roasted and got cold before operations commenced, my wife and daughter making the sandwiches, while I cut up the beef in the kitchen, sometimes in my shirt-sleeves on a hot summer night; mountains of loaves of bread, great slices of cake, and pounds of cheese, completed the provisions.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory

After making a few purchases, we went into an Arab café and partook of coffee and tea flavoured with citron.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

This involved an acknowledgment of the Confederate Government as a Government de facto having "the sovereign rights of war," yet the Executive Department of the United States Government, with reckless malignity, denounced our cruisers as "pirates," our citizens as "insurgents" and "traitors," and the action of our Government as an "insurrection."
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

“For the cover cut a piece of covering vellum 99 (vellum with a surface) large enough to cover the book and to leave a margin of 1 1 2 inches all round.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

A complete developing outfit can now be packed in a hand-bag, and a camera and printing outfit can be carried in a knapsack no larger than is required for the whole-plate camera of the old "still-life" photographer.
— from Practical Cinematography and Its Applications by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot