I seem to hear him beside me every moment of the day.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

over the very men who have given them shelter, and that a state of terrorism and lawlessness should be established under the very shadow of the sacred folds of the starry Flag of Freedom which would raise horror in our minds if we read of it as existing under the most effete monarchy of the East?
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

[52] How opposite to the beneficence of the Rajput prince, who, when the most efficient means of self-defence lay in the destruction of the resources of his enemy, feeling for the miseries of the suffering population of his persecutor, recalled his son in the midst of victory!
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

When it shall be proven to him that communities are degraded and brought to guilt and crime, suffering or destitution, from a predominance of this quality; when he shall see pardoned ticket-of-leave men elbowing men of austere lives out of situation and position, and the repentant Magdalen supplanting the blameless virgin in society,—then he will lay aside his pen and extend his hand to the new Draconian discipline in fiction.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Quarrel with Edgar, if you please, Heathcliff, and deceive his sister: you’ll hit on exactly the most efficient method of revenging yourself on me.’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

They make excellent mats of reed.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The fish must generally be sought for at a greater distance, larger vessels must be employed, and more expensive machinery of every kind made use of.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Thus an entire life, with the whole of its manifold activity, may be likened to a clock-dial, that marks every movement of the internal works, as they were made once for all; or it resembles a mirror, wherein alone, with the eye of his intellect, each person sees reflected the essential nature of his own Will, that is, the core of his being.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

And just when the horrors of disorder and anarchy had reached their height in the agitated flat, till then so tranquil, the door opened and suddenly there descended upon them, like snow upon their heads, a personage of gentlemanly appearance, with a severe and displeased-looking face, behind him Yaroslav Ilyitch, behind Yaroslav Ilyitch his subordinates and the functionaries whose duty it is to be present on such occasions, and behind them all, much embarrassed, Mr. Okeanov.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[300] [301] In 1914 Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss Effie Morrison, of Walla Walla, and in the social circles of the city they are widely and prominently known.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

She is the "fairest among women" (chap. i. 7) because of her humility , answers the Angel who heard her say: Ecce ancilla Domini , at the most exalted moment of her life.
— from Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul

It does not belong to man, either manufacturer or cultivator, to create , to make something out of nothing; if, by production , we understand creation , all our labors will be unproductive; that of merchants more so than any other, except, perhaps, that of law-makers.
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

Nor was it content with these auditory demonstrations, for it resorted to far more energetic methods of physical violence.
— from Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

It means every moment of your time will be crowded, but Bannister needs workers—" Something stirred in John Thorwald.
— from T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice

Blum was considered one of the most eloquent men of the Frankfort Assembly; he certainly was the most popular.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

There are some Horsemen who mark each Motion of the Horse in his Gallop, by moving their Bodies and Heads; they ought, however, without Stiffness or Constraint to consent and yield to all his Motions, yet with a Smoothness and Pliancy so as not to be perceived, for all great or rude Motions always disturb the Horse.—To do this you must advance or present your Breast, and stretch yourself firm in your Stirrups; this is the only Way to [Pg 106] fix and unite yourself entirely to the Animal who carries you.
— from A New System of Horsemanship by Claude Bourgelat

Not only the representative men of the churches are pledged to this movement, but governors, judges, and many of the most eminent men of the land are working for it.
— from The United States in the Light of Prophecy Or, an Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17 by Uriah Smith