England, it must be observed, was a great trading country, her mercantile capital was very great, and likely to become still greater and greater every day, not only before the act of navigation had established the monopoly of the corn trade, but before that trade was very considerable.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Two new worlds have been opened to their industry, each of them much greater and more extensive than the old one, and the market of one of them growing still greater and greater every day.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To live in that Grange, a great, empty, deserted house, where every desolate apartment echoed to his footstep as if he were a dozen men, and which contained through all its ample rooms nothing but a rude table and chair in the library, where he took his solitary food, a truckle bed where he slept, and some homely implements for poor old Sally in the kitchen, which the unfortunate young man had redeemed out of his mother’s twenty pounds—became at last and once for all impossible to him.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The silks are quite heavenly:—I'm glad too to say Gimp herself grows more godly and good every day; Hath had sweet experience—yea, even doth begin To turn from the Gentiles, and put away sin—
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Again, what we call therapeutics, which has to do with the action of drugs and medicines on the living organism, is, strictly speaking, a branch of experimental physiology, and is daily receiving a greater and greater experimental development.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley

But the first daughter of the critical philosophy (Fichte’s system) makes the living and working moral order itself to be God, a God expressly declared to be without consciousness and self-existence.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

[Pg 58] McGinn, the famous backstop, who could throw so well to bases, And who received last season fifty-seven hundred aces, Is throwing cordwood on a sled, far from the rooters’ gaze, And getting eighteen dollars cash for every thirty days.
— from Right off the Bat: Baseball Ballads by William Frederick Kirk

Yet that is precisely what occurs—the capitalist class as a whole does gain, and gain enormously, despite the losses of individual members of that class.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo