The daily wages of the American working-man have risen, as we have already remarked, to seven or even ten dollars, corresponding to a purchasing power of over a hundred marks.
— from The New Society by Walther Rathenau

Nevertheless we have a right to state our experience and leave the reader to form his own opinion.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

"While he lives he absolutely refuses to sanction our engagement," he began.
— from The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby

“Gale, take this book home and read the story of Elaine and Lancelot tonight,” the teacher said one afternoon.
— from The Adventure Girls in the Air by Clair Blank

Vanderbilt, valuable as were many of his achievements, represented that spirit of egotism that was rampant for the larger part of the fifty years following the war.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Its navigators passed the Pillars of Hercules and reached the shores of England.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

It was Learmont’s note dated far back which now caught his eye, and made him in the present desperate state of his fortunes adopt the sudden notion of calling with it in his hand and explaining the cause of the long delay, which might interest the rich and powerful squire to give him a recommendation to some one else, if he could not himself employ him.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

[Pg 232] with which they were received, had again restored the serenity of Ellis; when a conversation, unavoidably overheard, produced new disturbance.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

But although the guilds could make wise laws and enforce them, it could not execute in haste and retain the standard of excellence.
— from The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

For my part, all Elysium seemed opening on the other side of the kennel; and I envied the little blackguards, who, stopping the current with their little dam-dykes of mud, had a right to stand on either side of the nasty puddle which best pleased them.
— from Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series by Walter Scott