To her dress and appearance she was grown so perfectly indifferent, as not to bestow half the consideration on it, during the whole of her toilet, which it received from Miss Steele in the first five minutes of their being together, when it was finished.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

So we have, at the present moment, a society with, say, thirty per cent of the population occupied in producing useless articles, and one per cent occupied in destroying them.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

A considerable group of spells consists of imprecations directed against the oppressors of Brahmans and those who withhold from them their rightful rewards.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In the case of internal debt, however, there are interested parties on both sides, and the question is one of the internal distribution of wealth.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

On the journey in the train he talked to his neighbors about politics and the new railways, and, just as in Moscow, he was overcome by a sense of confusion of ideas, dissatisfaction with himself, shame of something or other.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The spirit in which Owen faced his fellow-manufacturers is best seen in the following extract from the address delivered by him, with copies of which he afterward literally deluged the kingdom:— "True, indeed, it is that the main pillar and prop of the political greatness and prosperity of our country is a manufacture which, as now carried on, is destructive of the health, morals, and social comfort of the mass of people engaged in it.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

The northern portion of the chain of icebergs drifted farther and farther north.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

"It's perfectly convenient, only I don't care to.
— from Denry the Audacious by Arnold Bennett

CHAPTER III AN ENCOUNTER WITH DEATH One moment the even throbbing of the engine as the train slipped along through the silence of the country-side—the next, and the silence was split by a shattering roar and the shock of riven plates, the clash of iron driven against iron, and of solid woodwork grinding and grating as it splintered into wreckage.
— from The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler

That the Christian nations and states of Europe have received, along with the light of Divine truth, a high intellectual, moral and political illumination, no one [256] will deny; and it is equally evident that this vital principle of modern society is still involved in the crisis of its development—a crisis which will form the principal subject of historical enquiry in the latter part of this work.
— from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich von Schlegel

"I wouldn't cry over it, Dorinda; I hope I'm more of a man than that .
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

266 That land speculation is the true cause of industrial depression is, in the United States, clearly evident.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

The new boy was the center of interest during the morning.
— from 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Another undertakes to relieve him of all care of it during these years and deliver it to the Siberian home ready for his use.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott