The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected ‘For we are a trading people, and don’t care for poetry:’ though we do , by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome fancies, must fade before the stern utilitarian joys of trade.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

[6] dispuestos a invertir dinero en una forma más completa, estableciendo una fuerte casa en Sud América que se ocupe de la compra de pieles, así como también de su elaboración, en las condiciones más perfectas que sea dable alcanzar.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They grow plentifully in divers woods in Kent, Warney common near Brentwood in Essex, upon Finchley Common without Highgate; hard by the Newfound Wells near Dulwich, upon a Common between Mitcham and Croydon, in the Highgate near Amersham in Buckinghamshire, and many other places.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The woman, who belonged to the courtesan class, was celebrated for an embonpoint unusual for her age, which had earned for her the sobriquet of “Boule de Suif” (Tallow Ball).
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A uniform feeling of 'warmth,' of bodily existence (or an equally uniform feeling of pure psychic energy?) pervades them all; and this is what gives them a generic unity, and makes them the same in kind .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

These expressions of friendship were merely sent by Motecusuma in order to entice us from Tlascalla, being aware that we stood in close friendship with its inhabitants, and that the caziques to strengthen the union had given their daughters to Malinche and his officers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Paros was an island in the Ægean sea, one of the Cyclades; it was famous for the valuable quality of its marble, which was especially used for the purpose of making statues of the Gods.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Ah, every utterance from the depths of feeling The timid lips have stammeringly expressed,— Now failing, now, perchance, success revealing,— Gulps the wild Moment in its greedy breast; Or oft, reluctant years its warrant sealing, Its perfect stature stands at last confessed!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But let us proceed quietly, and not encroach upon future events.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Those fellows fix 'em up for me.
— from Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain by Victor Appleton

The delicacy of the shades which he chooses and the harmony with which he arranges them in these designs show us that the common belief, that children love bright and glaring colors, has been the result of observation of children without education , who have been abandoned to the rough and harsh experiences of an environment unfitted for them.
— from Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori

On the 21st, I steered directly in for the cove of Payta, which I entered under French colours about four in the afternoon.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

We’ll pick ’em up from the deck.”
— from Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

No pupil could enter this establishment under fifteen years of age, or for a shorter period than three years; and if at the end of that time she had won her diploma, she was expected for the two years following to place herself at the disposal of the church, to teach any parochial school that might require such assistance.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

In consequence of this failure, four of my people were disappointed, after having harvested, at their own expense, a sufficient amount of food to supply the cattle during the winter (by no means an easy undertaking for an Indian).
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 11, November, 1878 by Various

But if you get a language, and get it correctly, thoroughly, you can find enough use for it to keep brushed up on it.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

The Leclanché battery is very extensively used for this work.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

Fraulein Cacilie was evidently uneasy, for she spoke again to Philip.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham