The interest of the inland corn dealer is the same.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

These continued to be used for a long time after steam had come into use, clear down into the seventies.
— 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

The highest thing that art can do is to set 10 before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

When I was come down into the street, I found everybody come to put out the fire with store of water, and seeing me so half-roasted, they did naturally pity my case, and threw all their water upon me, which, by a most joyful refreshing of me, did me very much good.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Deus Angelos misit ad tutelam cultumque generis humani; sed illos cum hominibus commorantes, dominator ille terrae salacissimus paulatim ad vitia pellexit, et mulierum congressibus inquinavit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So with our house—it must be feminine, and all we can do is to see that it isn’t effeminate.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

They therefore adduce from their weights and order of the elements nothing from which they can prove that it is impossible for Almighty God to make our bodies such that they can dwell in the skies.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

His house is not quite a mile from this place; and if he should not be at home himself, he hath a pretty young man as his son, whose name is Civility, that can do it (to speak on) as well as the old gentleman himself.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The Committee decided that the societies should be requested in our name to come down into the streets immediately, and to call out their forces.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Drip, drip, drip, dripped the contents down into Tot's scrap of ruffled and embroidered lap.
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.

Now we leaders are proud if we can preserve a semblance of order, for, instead of conducting a chosen few through some graceful man[oe]uvres, our chief duty is to shoo the invading hosts back to their chairs; to dance with the lovely débutante, and manage a penny bazaar.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

I was not able, however, to make out any constant difference in the size of the cells, quantity of cytoplasm, or size and number of cytoplasmic granules similar to those reported by Mann and Gage.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

“I have found out by a cablegram to-day that seven weeks ago an order for one hundred milligrams of radium bromide at thirty-five dollars a milligram from a certain person in America was filled by a corporation dealing in this substance.”
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

When Surrey came in sight, he was greatly struck with the formidable nature of James's position, and sent a messenger to him charging him with having shifted his ground after having accepted the challenge, and calling upon him to come down into the spacious plain of Millfield, where both armies could contend on more equal terms, the army of Surrey amounting to only 25,000 men.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Pelagutti 714 believes that in his case diminution in the size of the cysts was obtained by the use of anthelminthic remedies continued over a long period combined with potassium iodide and calcium salts (internally).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

The creek at first seemed to be a bar to his advance, but thinking it over he led his horse carefully down into the stream, mounted him and rode with the current, which was not more than a foot deep.
— from The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Is not this as great a humbling and condescending for the Father to come down off his throne of glory, to the poor base footstool of the creature's soul, as for the Son to come down in the state of a servant, and become in the form of [pg 024] sinful flesh?
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning