The cost analyst will point to the fact that in the literature of the subject many false statements are made as to the costs of certain items of work, and will show that no allowance has been made for depreciation, repairs, etc., not to say profit, interest on the contractor's money, and a host of other things.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

Do remind 'em not to lose their mules this time.
— from Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps

Many readers will doubtless recall, even now, the shock that went through this country at the conclusion of the famous New Orleans Mafia trial of twenty years ago.
— from The Net by Rex Beach

In one sense, the task of demonstrating the extent of a husband’s income is easier than the pioneer task of helping take care of a farm and raising a houseful of babies; but, after all, such a career does require either natural talent or a high degree of training in the graceful habits of conspicuous idleness and honorific extravagance.
— from Were You Ever a Child? by Floyd Dell

In this apartment Lucien discovered a one-armed pensioner supporting several reams of paper on his head with his remaining hand, while between his teeth he held the passbook which the Inland Revenue Department requires every newspaper to produce with each issue.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

On the following morning, when Davis rose early, neither the old man nor the half-breed were astir.
— from Dick Kent with the Malemute Mail by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

After Etzel's departure to the army Dietrich der Reusse escapes notwithstanding the Queen's entreaties.—In her distress Heike turns to the sore wounded Dietrich von Bern, who, though { 130} bitterly cursing her ingratitude rises from his sick-bed in order to pursue the fugitive.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.