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

I believe that less exacting demands and greater perception of what is required, skilful and judicious use of the high and low registers of the voice, a proper understanding of cantabile writing combined with orchestration which never overpowers the vocal part will be of greater service to the composer, from an artistic point of view, than the more elaborate methods of Richard Wagner.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

This young fellow lay in bed reading one of Mrs Behn's novels; for he had been instructed by a friend that he would find no more effectual method of recommending himself to the ladies than the improving his understanding, and filling his mind with good literature.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Beschluss mit 3/4 der Stimmen extraordinary resolution Beschluss mit einfacher Mehrheit ordinary resolution beschneiden curtail beschränken confine beschränkt limited beschränkt aufnahmefähiger Markt limited market beschränkte Absatzmöglichkeiten limited market beschränkte Eigentümerschaft restricted ownership beschränkte Lieferung restricted supply beschränkte Mittel limited resources
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Thence away to my Lord Bruncker’s, and there was Sir Robert Murray, whom I never understood so well as now by this opportunity of discourse with him, a most excellent man of reason and learning, and understands the doctrine of musique, and everything else I could discourse of, very finely.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It seems impossible to imagine a more equitable method of raising a tax.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To see a man turn himself into all shapes like a chameleon, or as Proteus, omnia transformans sese in miracula rerum , to act twenty parts and persons at once, for his advantage, to temporise and vary like Mercury the planet, good with good; bad with bad; having a several face, garb, and character for every one he meets; of all religions, humours, inclinations; to fawn like a spaniel, mentitis et mimicis obsequis ; rage like a lion, bark like a cur, fight like a dragon, sting like a serpent, as meek as a lamb, and yet again grin like a tiger, weep like a crocodile, insult over some, and yet others domineer over him, here command, there crouch, tyrannise in one place, be baffled in another, a wise man at home, a fool abroad to make others merry.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The tragedy of it all is that, although one cannot believe these dogmas of religion and metaphysics if one adopts in heart and head the potent methods of truth, one has yet become, through human evolution, so tender, susceptible, sensitive, as to stand in need of the most effective means of rest and consolation.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is true that the bolder and more emphatic manner of rocking has become impossible in these latter days, for the few upholsterers who preserve the tradition of the rocking-chair at all make it in such a highly genteel manner, that the rockers are diminished to the smallest possible arc; but the Doctor troubled himself little concerning these achievements of fashionable upholstery, and regarded his old rocking-chairs with perfect satisfaction and complacency—in which, without desiring to offend against the decisions of the fashionable world, we cannot help thinking that he was right.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

that without one serious thought, you would forsake our holy faith, for a mere external mockery of religion!
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Twilight drawing on, I left my haunt, and stealing down stairs, enquired for a guide to conduct me to the amphitheatre, perhaps the most entire monument of Roman days.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

Such is the modern European method of running a sleeping car.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

5 The most effective means of reducing interference
— from Zenith Television Receiver Operating Manual by Anonymous

He therefore wrote for Moral Tales , as afterwards for all her works, one of his ludicrously bombastic prefaces, which, whatever they may have done in his own time, would certainly to-day be the most effective means of repelling readers.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

Catesby, a gentleman of good parts and of an ancient family, first thought of a most extraordinary method of revenge; and he opened his intention to Piercy, a descendant of the illustrious house of Northumberland.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

We regard the Glenn bill as the most extraordinary manifestation of race feeling which has been made in any part of this country in many years.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887 by Various