And M. Loucheur, the Minister of Industrial Reconstruction, stated before the Senate on the 17th February, 1919, that the reconstitution of the devastated regions would involve an expenditure of $15,000,000,000 (75 milliard francs),—more than double M. Pupin's estimate of the entire wealth of their inhabitants.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

One day, Miss Osborne, in Russell Square (Amelia had not written the name or number of the house for ten years—her youth, her early story came back to her as she wrote the superscription) one day Miss Osborne got a letter from Amelia which made her blush very much and look towards her father, sitting glooming in his place at the other end of the table.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This mind, calm in the citadel of its own essential simplicity, has decreed that the method of its rule shall be manifold.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The hunters started slowly, one after another, but beyond the gate they spread out in a long line; in the middle of it rode side by side the Assessor and the Notary, and though they occasionally cast a malicious glance at each other, they conversed in friendly fashion, like men of honour, who were on their way to settle a mortal quarrel; no one from their words could have remarked their mutual hatred: the Notary led Bobtail, the Assessor Falcon.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

‘Of much?’ Mr. Bounderby, in his desire to make the most of it, really seemed mortified by being obliged to reply, ‘Why, no; not of very much.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

It should be remembered, however, that the helmet is not specifically granted, and apparently is a matter of inherent right, so that a person would not be in the wrong in p
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"Two thousand miles of it, running straight through the heart of that world we both have known!
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood

Thirty years afterwards, Stephen Girard, with an estate of about nine million dollars, was looked upon as a prodigy of wealth, and his reputation as a man of immense riches spread round the world.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

This superiority is most observable in real service.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

If our telephone clerk had recorded by aid of a phonograph certain of the messages from the outside world on past occasions, then if any telephonic message on its receipt set several phonographs repeating past messages, we have an image analogous to what goes on in the brain.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

It was then as uncommon for a party to separate while any member of it remained sober 341 as it is now for any one in such a party to degrade himself through intoxication.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

“You are going to make the acquaintance of a superior being, soft of voice and sad of countenance, who bears the gentle name of Marie.” “Let me off,” I replied skeptically.
— from Marie Tarnowska by Annie Vivanti

[Pg 91] "You do not seem to have got much of it," replies she, with lady-like irritability, looking with open disfavor upon the astonishing dryness of his clothes.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

To pass the time unnoticed, I used generally to take a book, and seat myself, occupied in reading, sometimes in one spot, sometimes in another; but with my man and maid servant always within call, though never where they could be seen.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various