Every valuable invention which exists now, or lies in the future, must be used.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

[Note 71: In former times, and to some extent the practice still continues to the present day, Russian families were wont to travel with every necessary of life, and, in the case of the wealthy, all its luxuries following in their train.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Rosamond enjoyed not only Lydgate's presence but its effect: she liked to excite jealousy.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The imperfection, or rather the higher and more elastic nature of language, does not allow words to have the precision of numbers or of symbols.
— from The Republic by Plato

Among the latter was at least one, by name Harisheṇa, who in his panegyric on his royal patron, which consists of some thirty lines (nine stanzas) of poetry and about an equal number of lines of prose, shows a mastery of style rivalling that of Kālidāsa and Daṇḍin.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

+ lodwyrt f. silverweed . loerge (Ep) np. of lorg .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

B., it is infinitely preferable, and there is no fear of any risk (“indiscretion” in original) either now or later.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Some had extensive networks of liaison officers; others had virtually none.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

What was extraordinary was that everyone not only liked him, but even people previously unsympathetic, cold, and callous, were enthusiastic over him, gave way to him in everything, treated his feeling with tenderness and delicacy, and shared his conviction that he was the happiest man in the world because his betrothed was beyond perfection.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

What the exact nature or method of this supranormal vision is, may not yet be absolutely settled, any more than the exact nature of light or [Pg 113] of life or even of electricity is settled, and each of their various methods of action known, though of the fact itself in any of these cases there is no doubt.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

Hence, making due allowance for the lower rate of consumption of the small lamps, it will be seen that, given equal numbers of large and small lamps in use, the mean illuminating duty of a gallon of oil as burnt in country houses will be 987, or, in round figures, 990 candle-hours.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

Nothing could be more squalid and miserable than the home in which Abraham Lincoln was born—a one-roomed cabin without floor or window in what was then the wilderness of Kentucky, in the heart of that frontier life which swiftly moved westward from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, always in advance of schools and churches, of books and money, of railroads and newspapers, of all things which are generally regarded as the comforts and even necessaries of life.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Secondly,—that, [Pg 125] in connection with these training schools, there should be established, also entirely under Government regulation, manufactories and workshops, for the production and sale of every necessary of life, and for the exercise of every useful art.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

But each repetition of that factitious fever is followed by a reaction that suspends the prophylactic effect of the stimulus, and sooner or later the total exhaustion of the vital energies not only leaves the system at the mercy of the original foe, but far less able to resist his attacks.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2 by Chautauqua Institution

"It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The developments of every hour make it more and more apparent that the exact number of lives lost in the Johnstown horror will never be known.
— from The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

Every art, every convenience, every necessary of life, is now in the most intimate manner connected with it: and yet the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, and Greeks acknowledged traditions concerning its first discovery in their respective countries.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

Gilded woodpeckers, with hearts red as blood painted upon their breasts, dipped in uneven flight from sahuaro to sahuaro , dodged into holes of their own making, dug deep into the solid flesh; sparrow hawks sailed forth from their summits, with quick eyes turned to the earth for lizards; and the brown mocking bird, leaping for joy from the ironwood tree where his mate was nesting, whistled the praise of the desert in the ecstatic notes of love.
— from Hidden Water by Dane Coolidge