It consists in those useful plants and animals, which, in uncultivated countries, nature produces with such profuse abundance, that they are of little or no value, and which, as cultivation advances, are therefore forced to give place to some more profitable produce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

34 Toccoa : (1) A creek flowing into Tugaloo river, in Habersham county, with a fall upon its upper course, near the village of the same name.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Owing to the dissimilarity between the quality of string and brass tone, the combination of these two groups in unison can never yield such a perfect blend as that produced by the union of strings and wood-wind.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

“He says folks looks better in ugly clothes.” “Nay, nay,” said Adam, looking at her admiringly; “I only said they seemed to suit Dinah.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In its upper course navigation is interrupted by rapids, but from its mouth upwards for a distance of 3300 miles (mostly in Brazil) there is no obstruction.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The Great Boom What is generally described as "the great boom" of the coffee trade occurred in 1886–87, and had its inception in unsatisfactory crop news from Brazil.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Beroaldus, Erasmus, Alpheratius, twenty-four times printed in Spanish, &c. Give me leave then to refresh my muse a little, and my weary readers, to expatiate in this delightsome field, hoc deliciarum campo , as Fonseca terms it, to [4431] season a surly discourse with a more pleasing aspersion of love matters: Edulcare vitam convenit , as the poet invites us, curas nugis , &c., 'tis good to sweeten our life with some pleasing toys to relish it, and as Pliny tells us, magna pars studiosorum amaenitates quaerimus , most of our students love such pleasant [4432] subjects.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

High o’er my head, with threatening hand, The spectre took his naked brand— Yet did the worst remain: My dazzled eyes I upward cast— Not opening hell itself could blast Their sight, like what I saw!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

[9] A king, it is understood, can never lie.
— from The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Jean de La Fontaine

The day as usual, on any occasion of public interest, was ended at the opera, but I unfortunately could not get ashore; however some of the officers went.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

I never asks one tenant to sleep on the same tick cover that the one before it used, certainly not when boys is been the fore-runners.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Exports - commodities: pig iron, unwrought copper, nonferrous metals, diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy Exports - partners: Russia 17.5%, Germany 14.7%, Netherlands 13.5%, Belgium 8.7%, Georgia 7.6%, US 6.6%, Switzerland 4.3%, Bulgaria 4.1%, Ukraine 4% (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He held that the sea had been from the first, and still remained, by the primitive right of mankind, free both for navigation and fishing, and that its use could not be exhausted by fishing, while lakes and rivers may be so exhausted.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

But this is a case of market value, when the supply happens to be not on a level with the demand: now, throughout the present conversation I wish studiously to keep clear of any reference to market value, and to consider exclusively that mode of exchangeable value which is usually called natural value— that is, where value is wholly uninfluenced by any redundancy or deficiency of the quantity.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

Nothing was further from his thoughts than the burning of the prison-house; though a little reflection would have shown him that a figure fashioned of greasy clothes, and stuffed with rags, straw, shavings, and sundry valuables that slipped in unawares, could not burn within a few inches of a wooden building without setting it on fire.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

Whilst there is unceasing change, nothing is new ; it is but a repetition of what has been before, and which again soon passes, leaving the heart empty and hungry still.
— from Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

Early in August a numerous band of savages made an incursion upon Casco Neck and swept it of its inhabitants.
— from King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott