I shall endeavour to explain, as fully and distinctly as I can, those three subjects in the three following chapters, for which I must very earnestly entreat both the patience and attention of the reader: his patience, in order to examine a detail which may, perhaps, in some places, appear unnecessarily tedious; and his attention, in order to understand what may perhaps, after the fullest explication which I am capable of giving it, appear still in some degree obscure.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She also had a history, possibly, and had sometime beaten her young wings against the cage of custom, and indulged in dreams of a new social order, and had passed through that fiery period when it seems possible for one mind, which has not yet tried its limits, to break up and re-arrange the world.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni One afternoon - K. was very busy at the time, getting the post ready - K.'s Uncle Karl, a small country land owner, came into the room, pushing his way between two of the staff who were bringing in some papers.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother’s commandment; if not, your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

The libido is locked out, as it were, and must seek refuge in some place where it can find an outlet for its fund of energy, in accordance with the controlling demands for pleasurable gratification.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The sources of the river Stour are six wells, which exist in a tiny valley in Stourton Park, which to this day is known by the name of "The Six Wells Bottom."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The air was warm and sweet, for all the gardens in the neighborhood were full of flowers at this season of the year, and their fragrance, which is scarcely perceptible during the day, seemed to awaken at the approach of night, and mingled with the light breezes which blew upon them in the darkness.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Draw up this note for us, Aramis; but by our Holy Father the Pope, cut it short, for I shall prune you in my turn, I warn you.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In the work as it stands in the Uffizi to-day, Christ is seen placing a jewel in the Virgin's crown.
— from Fra Angelico by James Mason

I shall perceive each object less distinctly, but I shall descry the principal facts with more certainty.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

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— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet

3. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation, have been retained.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

There are also beds of nice green rushes in several places.
— from William Clayton's Journal A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by William Clayton

Newly collected, digested, and in some part deuised by a welwiller to the Mathematicals ."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Lon., 41 in Munich, 19 in Dresden, 15 in Cassel, 13 in Berlin, 67 in Vienna, 21 in Madrid, 24 in Paris, and 38 in St. Petersburg (Wauters), best examples in Vienna, Louvre, Nat. Gal.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke