What perhaps more than anything else has held the Society together in England is Professor Sidgwick's extraordinary gift of inspiring confidence in diverse sorts of people.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

He saw a lavish expenditure going on in connexion with Savings Banks, and he endeavoured to stop it; with what success remains to be seen.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

But this is a feature of Western journalism that will go out with the disappearance of the lower civilization to which, in covering the entire ground of its circulation, it unhesitatingly appeals.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

[Pg 34] Cathedral for the effective glazing of its choir and transepts afforded by thirteenth century grisaille eked out with good modern glass copied after it.
— from Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill

But the next day when Pilgrim Exactly got over into Canaan with the same stone, because there was no other stone in there when he crossed, as every man has his own stone, he would plant it as before.
— from Adventures in the Land of Canaan by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry

There's some sort of entertainment going on: I can hear it."
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

Every man and woman, however, has a word and a jest for the serving-maid, which words and jests re-assure her a good deal, so that by the time the padrona is ready seated, among the company, at the long board with the coarse tablecloth, she is herself again, and, handing the viands, confidentially informs each guest of its chief ingredients, recommending her own favourites to favoured ones in the party.
— from North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr

Of this kind are many acts, such as exporting gold, or importing certain articles of trade; doing certain actions, or following certain callings, without the requisite qualifications, which are made punishable offences by the Statute-Law.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

nd petroleum products, coffee, potatoes, asparagus, textiles, guinea pigs Philippines electronic equipment, machinery and transport equipment, garments, optical instruments, coconut products, fruits and nuts, copper products, chemicals Pitcairn Islands fruits, vegetables, curios, stamps Poland machinery and transport equipment 37.8%, intermediate manufactured goods 23.7%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 17.1%, food and live animals 7.6% (2003)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Sir Henry Sidney struck out the only line of policy by which the English government of Ireland could be made successful or even possible.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

O you who lisp, and amble, and change the fashion of your countenances—you who conceal all these, how little do you think that you left a proof of your weakness in our umbrella-stand—that even now, as you shake out the folds to meet the thickening snow, we read in its ivory handle the outward and visible sign of your snobbery, or from the exposed gingham of its cover detect, through coat and waistcoat, the hidden hypocrisy of the “ dickey ”!
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson