The fall of Acre (1291), and the total expulsion of the Franks from Syria, in great measure barred the southern routes of Indian trade, whilst the predominance of Genoa in the Euxine more or less obstructed the free access of her rival to the northern routes by Trebizond and Tana.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

That by a more plentiful supply, to the great advantage and conveniency of the public, it must have reduced very much the price of India goods in the English market, cannot well be doubted; but that it should have raised very much their price in the Indian market, seems not very probable, as all the extraordinary demand which that competition could occasion must have been but as a drop of water in the immense ocean of Indian commerce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Matter and God in that event mean exactly the same thing—the power, namely, neither more nor less, that could make just this completed world—and the wise man is he who in such a case would turn his back on such a supererogatory discussion.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations that evil minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself by explanation, and thereby run the hazards of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother in suffering might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

He gone, I to end my letters to-night, and then home to supper and to bed. 12th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I go impatient to exercise my newly-gained dominion.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

What a relief it is, at the British Museum, to go into the Elgin Marble room and be warmed by the noble life pulsating in the Greek work, after visiting the cold Egyptian rooms.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

"It being suspected from this that Henri Lothiere was himself the sorcerer causing the thunderclaps, he was watched and on the third day of June was seen to go in the early morning to the unholy spot with certain instruments.
— from The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton

[Pg 340] § 7 I lay at the Melch See Inn that night, and rose betimes and started down that wild grey gorge in the early morning light.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

After the burial she will return to the grave in the early morning and weep bitterly.
— from Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby

She would have some part in furnishing the room, she said, and Harold allowed her to get the chair, which she put by the window looking toward the Tramp House, and the round table, which stood in the bay-window, with a Japanese bowl upon it filled with lilies Harold had gathered in the early morning.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Gradually, however, this stage was left behind: they began to pass through villages of pleasant wooden houses painted white or cream, with green shutters, or groups of red-tiled stucco dwellings surrounded by gardens in the English manner.
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

‘But you had better go in the early morning.’
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

We decided to go in the early morning because there is a popular belief that the early morning is the right time for bass fishing.
— from Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

Night after night we have been having these most glorious sunsets, gorgeous in their Eastern magnificence of colouring, and the phosphorescence of the water is far more brilliant than when we were in the tropics crossing the Pacific.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

Where did you get it then?” exclaimed Mr Scott.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston