The ideas which the Americans have adopted respecting the republican form of government, render it easy for them to live under it, and insure its duration.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He admits, too, that while a part of the goods received in exchange for the coin exported may be materials, tools and provisions for the employment of an additional industry, a part, also, may be taken back in foreign wines, silks, &c., to be consumed by idle people who produce [235] nothing; and so far the substitution promotes prodigality, increases expense and corruption, without increasing production.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Upon that vessel, indeed, was stored thousands and thousands of pounds' worth of jewels and objects of value, the proceeds of many great robberies in England, France and Belgium.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

" 4:19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Inasmuch, however, as the raw products of California were heavier and took up more space than the manufactured goods received in exchange for them, a very considerable excess of eastbound tonnage often existed.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

Smuggled goods rarely, if ever, find their way into channels for legitimate medical needs, and for that reason it is only the under-world that would be affected by their use and abuse.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

On the contrary, a noble and lofty gravity reigned in every feature; and ignorant as he was of what the other wished to say, his attentive eye and bending head expressed every wish to comprehend.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

My regard for you does not maintain itself upon our scanty and infrequent correspondence, but on the recollection of your kindness to me, and the impression our former intercourse has left upon my memory; and though ceasing to receive your letters would be foregoing an enjoyment, it could not affect the grateful regard I entertain for you.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

But whether from Gaul or Spain, the sons of Milid were of undoubted Gaelic race, in every feature of character and complexion resembling the continental Gauls.
— from Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston