Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, when Milty and his mother went upstairs after it was all over to get her bonnet he asked her where heaven was that Jane Ellen had gone to, and she pointed right to the ceiling and said, ‘Up there.’
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The gem clusters upon the crosses are set upon enamel arabesques in white and red, of similar workmanship to that upon the rim.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Their quantity, in every particular country, seems to depend upon two different circumstances; first, upon its power of purchasing, upon the state of its industry, upon the annual produce of its land and labour, in consequence of which it can afford to employ a greater or a smaller quantity of labour and subsistence, in bringing or purchasing such superfluities as gold and silver, either from its own mines, or from those of other countries; and, secondly, upon the fertility or barrenness of the mines which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world with those metals.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In the meantime new colonies are springing up elsewhere and the settlements previously established are growing and thriving.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

"There's nothing wrong with little Jem, is there, Susan?" cried Anne, starting up in alarm.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

They all said they had a very nice time, indeed, when they bade Grandmother good night, and said: "Mrs. Beals, you must let Carrie and Anna come and see us some time," and she said she would.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

To distract his spiritual anguish by some new sensation or some other pain, Vassilyev, not knowing what to do, crying and shuddering, undid his greatcoat and jacket and exposed his bare chest to the wet snow and the wind.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Outer doors of chambers are shut up by the score, messages and parcels are to be left at the Porter's Lodge by the bushel.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This is in all cases unpleasant, and sometimes exceedingly painful, as when species that rank next to ourselves in their developed intelligence and organized societies, such as elephants, monkeys, dogs, and cattle, are seen under the domination of impulses, in some cases resembling insanity, and in others simulating the darkest passions of man.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[164] "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in Heaven and in earth.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

The most honoured father orders some workmen to come and set up some tall pine branches in front of the gateway.
— from Our Little Japanese Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

What wonder if, in some burst of noble indignation and just contempt, he forgot a moment that he had sold his soul, and his love of science likewise, to be a luxurious, yet uneasy, hanger-on at the tyrant’s court; and spoke unadvisedly some word worthy of a German man?
— from Health and Education by Charles Kingsley

The bedsteads were soon carried to their sleeping chamber and set up—the matresses laid on them, and the nimble fingers of our heroine soon covered them with their snowy linen.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

With her father and her aunt to keep up round her the atmosphere of home—with Cousin Launcelot (more commonly known as “Launce”) to carry out, if necessary, the medical treatment prescribed by superior authority on shore—the lovely invalid embarked on her summer cruise, and sprang up into a new existence in the life-giving breezes of the sea.
— from Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins

“Look ye here, my lad,” said the old fellow, solemnly, “do you suppose I want that there raft to capsize and shoot us off among the sharkses?”
— from King o' the Beach: A Tropic Tale by George Manville Fenn

It was unfortunate that she only remembered he had presumed to cast a slur upon one of her relations, and was, in her opinion, very far
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss