But while simple folks who are out of the world, or country people with a taste for the genteel, behold these ladies in their seeming glory in public places, or envy them from afar off, persons who are better instructed could inform them that these envied ladies have no more chance of establishing themselves in "society," than the benighted squire's wife in Somersetshire who reads of their doings in the Morning Post.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

wæst-mas, -me) growth, increase : plant, produce, offspring, fruit , Æ, CP: result, benefit, product : interest, usury : abundance : stature, form, figure .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"Think yet again, good brother, is it not From off such altar, whether it may glow In princely palace or in lowliest cot, That the true flame of country-love must flow?
— from By the Sea, and Other Verses by Baily, H. Lavinia, (Hannah Lavinia)

Nor can the amount needed for that purpose be permitted to be taken out of earnings, because that only increases the guaranteed interest properly payable on the bonded debt of the line by the Government.
— from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth

But in repeating the same kind of action the impulses are guided into particular paths, or channels.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There is a belief abroad that assurances given in public pronouncement of policy are sometimes not fulfilled.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

In Almawâhib alladunîya the kinds are thus given: 1, Dream, 2, Inspiration of Gabriel in the Prophet's heart, 3, Gabriel taking Dahya's form, 4, with the bell-sound, etc., 5, Gabriel in propriâ personâ (only twice), 6, revelation in heaven, 7, God appearing in person, but veiled, 8, God revealing himself immediately without veil.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

The plants are grown in pots placed on a stage or range of wooden shelves rising one above another, with a path all round, and a shelf for the plants under the glass in front.
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

If I could get him to take an interest in the general science of language and to go into philological points, of course his work would be lighter, and he would have soon the advantage of knowing dialects cognate to that which he must know.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It provides for real growth in purchasing power over this year's defense budget, which includes the cost of the all-volunteer force.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Gerald R. Ford