In the midst of profound peace, without any extraordinary charges either civil or military, he expended, in less than one year, besides the current revenue of the empire, the sum of 21,796,875 pounds sterling, which had been left by Tiberius at his death.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Footnote 24: (return) See a paper written by the author and read at the World's Columbian Exhibition Congress of Missions, Chicago, September, 1893, on The Citizen Rights of Missionaries.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

That generous creature, far from believing these imprecations, was no sooner withdrawn with her confidante, than she inveighed with great warmth against the malevolence of the world, to which only she ascribed the whole of what had been said to my disadvantage, and, calling every circumstance of my behaviour to her into review before her, found everything so polite, honourable, and disinterested, that she could not harbour the least doubt of my being the gentleman I assumed.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Pulchritudo est perfectio compositi ex congruente ordine, mensura et ratione partium consurgens, et venustas inde prodiens gratia dicitur et res omnes pulchrae gratiosae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To these two metabolic products aiding solution of the various ingested solids, is presently added that product of metabolism in the pancreas which, added to the chyme, effects certain other molecular changes—notably that of such amylaceous matters as are yet unaltered, into saccharine matters to be presently absorbed.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

This was bold enough, one should think; but without entering into the circumstances of the revenue change in 1772, I am to tell your Lordships that he had appointed six Provincial Councils, each consisting of many members, who had the ordinary administration of civil justice in that country, and the whole business of the collection of the revenues.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

every little rustle of curtains, every creak or motion in the whole house vibrated through me ...
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

they are quite close enough," cried out my companions, who did not wish to have another broadside like the last.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

"You cannot even conceive of my loving you?"
— from Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

She looked startled for a second; but he proceeded with a certain easy cheerfulness of manner which Käthchen thought became him; and he spoke in a confidential and friendly way, more than was his wont: "Yes; if what I am aiming at succeeds it will make your position here a good deal easier.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 2 of 3) by William Black

But then again, "a poor man is as happy without riches, if he can enjoy contentedness of mind, as the richest earl that coveteth greater honour."
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth