To the cotton rugs must be added the possible cost of dye-stuffs, which, again, might cost twenty cents, making cost of material in either cotton or woolen rugs from sixty to sixty-four cents.
— from How to make rugs by Candace Wheeler

"My child, once more I entreat you—no insane hopes; the reverse will be frightful.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

26, being careful to execute it in a consistently simple manner, as in this kind of work much change of manner in execution is inadvisable, although, at the same time, it is open to any amount of variety in design of outline and combination of contrasts.
— from Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack

Yet “the mental capacity of man is enlarged in proportion to the material growth of his brain, and is diminished according to the diminution of its substance in old age” (p. 110).
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Hence from the fact that the mental capacity of man is enlarged, as you say, in proportion to the material growth of his brain, we have no right to conclude that the thinking principle, the soul, grows with the brain; the right conclusion is that the soul, being in possession of a better instrument, finds itself in better conditions for the exercise of its intrinsic power.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Taken collectively, the series forms, says one writer, "the most complete and magnificent collection of mediæval iconography extant."
— from The Cathedrals of Northern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Thus first of all I described this Matter, [69] and endevoured to represent it such, that me thinks there is nothing in the world more clear, or more intelligible, except what was beforesaid of God, and of the Soul.
— from A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

Though men who are as rich as the Baron de Nucingen have more opportunities than others for losing money, they also have more chances of making it, even when they indulge their follies.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Notwithstanding he and aunt send Mr. Cullen or me in every morning to see how it is with Paulina’s neuralgia, they are neither of them much sorry to be told that her face is still swelled out of all comeliness of shape with it, so that she will not see either of us.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

It is in reference to such generic purposes that the moral character of men is estimated.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher