The undertaker of a great manufacture, who, by the home markets being suddenly laid open to the competition of foreigners, should be obliged to abandon his trade, would no doubt suffer very considerably.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The first time, an enchanted Moor that there is in it gave me sore trouble, nor did Sancho fare well among certain followers of his; and last night I was kept hanging by this arm for nearly two hours, without knowing how or why I came by such a mishap.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I conceived the idea of asking her to introduce me to Lady Betty, so I went up to her and proffered my request, but she replied politely that she could not do so not having the honour to know my name.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The next day she entered upon the new duties with interest and good-will, for this was work in which heart took part, as well as head and hand.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

I have but one thing to apprehend in this undertaking: I do not dread saying too much, or advancing falsities, but I am fearful of not saying enough, or concealing truths.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nor does she in the least foresee those inward consequences which reveal themselves immediately in her husband, and less quickly in herself.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“There is no deceit she would stick at.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the afternoon, out by coach, my wife with me, which we have not done several weeks now, through all the ruines, to shew her them, which frets her much, and is a sad sight indeed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Much wealth is corpulence, if not disease; Sick, or encumber’d, is our happiness, A competence is all we can enjoy.
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

[133] and the cherry not be in flower so early, it makes no difference, still the people come, it is the time when it ought to be in flower, and such is the imagination in the minds of these curious people, that they will gaze for hours at a tree with scarcely more than a tinge of colour in the buds with as much pleasure as if the tree were in all the glory of its full flower.
— from The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence Du Cane

There was nothing that the men of the time did not do supremely well, and a great many of them did nearly everything that they took in hand better than any of their successors.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

This farm-road was partly under water, though not deeply, so that by skirting along its raised banks it was possible to go dry
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Yes! through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to [222] think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share; planting with a cheerful good-humour, the acorns they carry about with them, that their grand-children may be shaded from the sun by the broad oak-trees of the future.
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

Next day Sponsken and the giant went to the forest again, and since their first plan had been so successful, it was arranged that they should follow exactly the same course.
— from Beasts & Men Folk Tales Collected in Flanders and Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère by Jean de Boschère

These peculiarities no doubt stand in close relation with the broad, flattened rose-comb characteristic of the Hamburgh breed.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Then, seeing on the faces of Fleur de Mai and Boisfleury a look of bewilderment which showed plainly enough that, however much the other persons present might understand these apparently uninteresting portions of general intelligence, they, at least, certainly did not do so, La Truaumont, addressing them, said:-- "It was arranged with the Comte de Montérey, the Spanish Governor of Brussels, that, if Spain decided to act, these pieces of news should be inserted in the Gazette by his orders.
— from Traitor and True: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Why did he not do so?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll