Thus, in every farm, the offals of the barn and stable will maintain a certain number of poultry.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

We have on this continent no "old poetic mountains," no old poetic objects of any description, natural or artificial, "to breathe enchantment all around."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For a like reason in Bilaspore, a district of India, when the chief men of a village meet in council, no one present should twirl a spindle; for they think that if such a thing were to happen, the discussion, like the spindle, would move in a circle and never be wound up.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Cf. n. on p. 32, l. 17.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Amongst aristocratic nations there are a certain number of privileged personages, whose situation is, as it were, without and above the condition of man; to these, power, wealth, fame, wit, refinement, and distinction in all things appear peculiarly to belong.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Grammars (cf. n. on p. 37, l. 14) treat the suffix -azo , and a few others of this sort, along with the diminutives.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Cf. n. on p. 75, l. 21.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I, on the other hand, in less than ten years conquered not only Persia but India too.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

If she did not speak with Rebecca on the tender subject, she compensated herself with long and intimate conversations with Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, who dropped some hints to the lady's-maid, who may have cursorily mentioned the matter to the cook, who carried the news, I have no doubt, to all the tradesmen, so that Mr. Jos's marriage was now talked of by a very considerable number of persons in the Russell Square world.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Speaking of suicide, he declares it to be 'a general law that, in a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own lives;' adding that 'the question as to who shall commit the crime depends upon special laws,' and that 'the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.'
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

There was little enough, Heaven knows, in this to give me any interest in the paper; but the total isolation in which I found myself, without one to speak to or converse with, made me feel that even the “Picayune” was an acquaintance; and so I drew near the window where a considerable number of persons were reading the last number of the paper, which, in a laudable spirit of generosity, was exposed within the glass to public gaze.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

The most charming natural objects please us in proportion to their rarity or our unfamiliarity with them.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou

Aureola Helvola Stramineola Complana Complanula Griseola ŒNISTIS Quadra GNOPHRIA Rubricollis CYBOSIA Mesomella NUDARIA Mundana Senex EUTHEMONIA Russula ARCTIA Caja Villica NEMEOPHILA Plantaginis PHRAGMATOBIA Fuliginosa SPILOSOMA Menthastri Lubricipeda DIAPHORA Mendica CALLIMORPHA Jacobææ EULEPIA Cribrum DEIOPEIA Pulchella LASIOCAMPA Rubi Trifolii Quercus ERIOGASTER Lanestris PŒCILOCAMPA Populi TRICHIURA Cratægi CLISIOCAMPA Neustria ODONESTIS Potatoria 321 GASTROPACHA Quercifolia SATURNIA Pavonia-minor CILIX Spinula PLATYPTERYX Lacertinaria DREPANA Falcataria Hamula Unguicula HETEROGENEA Asellus LIMACODES Testudo PSYCHIDÆ.
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

Hence the necessity felt by all civilized nations, of publishing and preserving public documents, reports, discussions, criticisms, &c. In America there is no adequate provision for the preservation of these, so far as they relate to prison reform; they are scattered among an accumulation of pamphlets on other subjects, are frequently destroyed, and are always difficult of access; and the labour which ought to furnish instruction for our future progress, and for posterity, becomes too often merely temporary in its utility.
— from The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (Vol. IV, No. II, April 1849) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

Do you live in a cottage now; or [Pg 218] have you made so much money out of those nice, wicked stories of yours that you've bought a big house?"
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

It is not forgotten that a considerable number of persons mingle their own labor with capital; that is, they labor with their own hands, and also buy or hire others to labor for them, but this is only a mixed and not a distinct class.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

It consists not of plain things like wine and fire, but of really peculiar, and local, and exceptional, and ingenious things—things like door-mats, and door-knockers, and electric bells, and silk hats, and white ties, and shiny cards, and confetti.
— from Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The good clergyman not only preached goodness, but practised it, and that night the door of their prison was opened.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

By way of penance he was ordered to hear at least three masses every day for the space of a year, to feed a certain number of poor people, and to cover with lead the chancel of S. Canice’s Cathedral from the belfry eastward, as well as the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour