But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity: that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

When that ceremony was over, the girl descended from the framework and was escorted to the place where she was to spend the rest of the night.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Some deem it but the distant echo given Back to the night wind by the waterfall, And harmonised by the old choral wall: Others, that some original shape, or form Shaped by decay perchance, hath given the power (Though less than that of Memnon's statue, warm In Egypt's rays, to harp at a fix'd hour)
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Here he stopped for a minute, to look at the strange, irregular clusters of lights piled one above the other, and twinkling afar off so high, that they looked like stars, gleaming from the castle walls on the one side and the Calton Hill on the other, as if they illuminated veritable castles in the air; while the old picturesque town slept heavily on, in gloom and darkness below: its palace and chapel of Holyrood, guarded day and night, as a friend of my uncle’s used to say, by old Arthur’s Seat, towering, surly and dark, like some gruff genius, over the ancient city he has watched so long.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

We are camped in this place, now, just within the city walls of Tiberias.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Life consisteth in blood, blood is the seat of the soul; therefore the chiefest work of the microcosm is, to be making blood continually.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Chia Cheng went on to ask, and dowager lady Chia interposed: "This, I fancy, must have been composed by Pao-yü," and Chia Cheng then said not a word, but
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The same courage which obtains the esteem of a civilized enemy provokes the fury of a savage, and the impatient besieger had bound himself by a tremendous oath, that age, and sex, and dignity, should be confounded in a general massacre.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Two Mules were journeying—one charged with oats, The other with a tax's golden fruit.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

While hollow langour and vacuity is the lot of the Upper, and want and stagnation of the Lower, and universal misery is very certain, what other thing is certain?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

His chivalry was of the moist kind, and his emotion made him hiccough several times.
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

In all the fertile portions of the country west of the plains, Mr. Ridgway found Bullock’s Oriole—the western representative of the Baltimore—extremely abundant.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Like Shakespeare, who also was but poorly educated in the schools, he had a marvelous faculty of discerning the real spirit of the classics,--a faculty denied to many great scholars, and to most of the "classic" writers of the preceding century,--and
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

'When the college was organized the third George was heir to the British throne.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

Furthermore, Colonel Clark was off the next morning at dawn to buy a Mississippi keel-boat.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The [25] earth now having become dry and the children of man now lords of the earth, each creature was obliged to keep out of their way, so the fishes took to the waters using their tails to swim away from man, the birds took to their wings, and the animals took to their legs; and by these means the birds, beasts, and fishes have kept out of man's way ever since.
— from The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Charles L. Jordan

English warships were to be used to enforce the act, and all commanders were ordered to seize any foreign vessels found trading with the colony.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker