Not maintained by human contrivance of tariff or capital, afar off from the fullest and cheapest source of supply, but resting in divine assurance, within touch of field and mine and forest—not set amid costly farms from which competition has driven the farmer in despair, but amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with agriculture, to which neither season nor soil has set a limit—this system of industries is mounting to a splendor that shall dazzle and illumine the world.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

2 [AN; a2] pick out a quotation, take s.t. from a certain source.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The scorn and anger in his voice brought Cranly’s eyes back from a calm survey of the walls of the hall.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

ession, for it is well known how, in the same way, “bare facts,” as “completely safe,” are carried further.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

She felt a cruel sting from it on the day when she told Leslie of what she hoped the spring would bring to the little house of dreams.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

They select the news that you want - 24 hours a day - from a continuous stream of stories from newspapers, magazines, news agencies and newsletters.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

A man bought a colt for a certain sum and sold him 2 years afterwards for £50 14s., gaining thereby as much per cent.
— from The Puzzle King Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc. by John Scott

This is done by simply applying the tongue to the roof of the mouth, so as to interrupt the communication between the mouth and the passage of the nostrils; by which means the operator is at liberty to breathe through the nose, at the same time that by the muscles of the lips he forces a continued stream of air from the anterior part of the mouth through the blowpipe.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

But if you should fail, and commit some of your old faults, do not be disheartened, but rise up and go on again, as though you had not fallen.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

Sure enough, when we got to the depot, we found a couch spread for the Captain, and both of us were passed on to New York with no visits, but those of civility, from the conductor.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But of course that sort of thing could not long continue, and toward the evening of the fourth day the poor chap collapsed, and, as luck would have it, I found a comparatively safe refuge for him among some rocks, where I looked after and attended to him until he was well enough to be up and about again.
— from The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood

Thus, if there is a panel and frame, and under this, just over the “feet,” a carved strip, it [148] is a base moulding.
— from A Manual of Wood Carving by Charles Godfrey Leland

There was some reason why he did not wish to go back to Fairview, and common sense told her that agitation was not good for him; besides, they would have to telephone to Ripton for a physician, and it was quicker to drive there.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The caravans, however, usually follow a track which is known, and where grass and water may be found at certain seasons of the year.
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid