A fall from one of those donkeys is of little more consequence than rolling off a sofa.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

We learn much concerning feminine conceit when we ask how a man could have altered the inclination of a woman whose equal he in no sense was.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Labouise sat down to laugh more comfortably, while Maillochon reloaded the weapon, so happy that he seemed to sneeze into the barrel.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

With him and the Public Prosecutor and the President of the Local Council I played whist until the cocks uttered their last morning crow.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Or the deduction by which Maximum Pleasure is inferred to be the result of a particular kind of action may be psychological or physiological: we may have some general theory as to the connexion of pleasure with some other physical or psychical fact, according to which we can deduce the amount of pleasure that will attend any particular kind of behaviour: as ( e.g. ) it is widely held that a perfectly healthy and harmonious exercise of our different bodily and mental functions is the course of life most conducive to pleasure in the long-run.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The young lady—” “Well, what?” retorted his wife, “the young lady?” Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were speaking.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At noon dined at home, where little Michell come and his wife, who continues mighty pretty.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When your father comes, you must let us be alone, but as soon as he leaves me, come back and go to bed.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Una moral severa le mantenía constantemente derecho, y en el cumplimiento 10 de sus deberes escolásticos apenas tenía pero.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The poles are made of soft wood, but have some spring in them, and the tarantass is at least more comfortable on rough roads than a Chinese two-wheeled cart.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

You are rather like me, comfortable and commonplace, and of the earth earthy.
— from The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

ndlord and tenant, 25 Lawrence, Massachusetts, cotton-mills, 34 Lead and zinc, 68 , 69 Life in the Southern mill village, 40–44 , 47 Livermore, California, railroad wreck, 99 Loom, contrast between earlier and later, 36–38 Lovejoy, Owen R., quoted, 186 ; referred to, 188 Lowell, Massachusetts, cotton-mills, 34 Loyalty, labor’s lack of, 7 Lumber companies of the Northwest, bad conditions for laborers, 144 , 145 Luxuries, defined, 114 , 115 ; examples of producers of, 116–134 ; harmless and hurtful, 115 M Machinery, 37 ; has subordinated man, 46 McIntire, Miss Ruth, quoted, 175 Manufacture of clothing materials, 35 , 36 Maverick Church in East Boston, 205 Men, as users of clothes, 34 ; as creators of things, 15 Metal mine workers, 74 ; wages, 75 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, picture referred to, 84 Michigan Central Railroad accident, 100 Migratory workers, 143 Millinery, 132 , 139 Mills and workers, 33–47 ; experience of a family, 44 , 45 Mine workers, accidents, 72 ; forgotten, 67 ; wages, 73 , 75 Minerals, valuable, 65 , 68 Mining town, life in a, 5 , 6 Missionary work at home, 127 Morgan Memorial Church, Boston, 198 Morris, William, demand for joy in work, 6 Motion-pictures, 43 ; theater statistics, 130–132 Motorman a suicide, 107 Municipal ownership, San Francisco, 108 N Napoleon, anecdote of, 201 National Child Labor Committee, 175 , 181 National Consumers’ League, 52 Negro philosophy of work, 115 ; work and wages on sugar plantation, 19 , 20 Neighborliness, 11 , 12 New York Herald , referred to, 119 Nickel, of Canada, 68 Northern textile workers, 44 ; Southern groups, 40 O “Open shop,” 45 ; in steel mills, 42 Organization, of labor, 7 ; of men questioning women’s admission to labor unions, 167–169 ; of women workers, 165 Oriental visitor’s comment on American civilization, 79 P Peace of the world and the bread question, 22 Philanthropy, city, 24 219 Pilgrim mothers, 162 “Pin-money” workers affecting regular wages, 164 Pioneers in the West and their descendants, 27 , 31 Pittsburgh has bad housing conditions for steel workers, 89 Play and relaxation, 6 , 207 Plymouth Church, Oakland, California, 205 Professor Parker’s report of I. W. W. in California, 142 Profit-sharing, 92 , 93 R Racial and residential phrases used by rival boy groups, 9 ; more general racial groups, 55 , 56 Railroads, casualty lists, 99 ; churches and, 106 ; expenses and profits, 103 , 104 ; government ownership, 106 ; system statistics, 98 ; work and workers, 99 , 102 Ranch life, 3 Reader in Tampa, Florida, cigar factory, 119 Ready-made clothing bargains, 54 , 55 “Red Jacket” mine, 74 Restless Americans, 95 “Riding out a bill,” 95 Right to work a just demand, 146 ; helping agencies, 147 Robbins, Mrs. Raymond, referred to, 168 Rochester, New York, address at the City Club, 108 Rolling-mill, 84 ; statistics, 86 Rural community study, 26–28 , 30 .
— from Men and Things by Henry A. Atkinson

"What, the old louse made conditions, did she?" "Is she jealous?" There was another roar at this.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

How strange it is that a simple feeling of discomfort, of impeded or heightened circulation, perhaps the irritation of a nervous center, a slight congestion, a small disturbance in the imperfect and delicate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, and make a coward of the bravest?
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

Emerald Green Requires nearly the same treatment as vermilion, with a little more care in washing in a second time, since that colour is easily displaced by the second time going over it, which would give it an uneven appearance.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara

You will be made to understand that even a solitary young Englishman like myself cannot be kidnapped with impunity!”
— from Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Harry Collingwood

A sail maker in a large maritime city writes: "Some women are employed in sail making in Massachusetts.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

The barges of the imperial princes were covered with blue and white awnings and towed to the sound of kettledrums and the loud measured cries of the boatmen.
— from Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

One moment he felt himself capable of acting nobly, even as he had resolved when at mass in the little mountain church; his bosom glowed with the defiance of every risk; he would guard Veranilda secretly until he could lay her hand in that of Basil.
— from Veranilda by George Gissing