It was as if she was writing now rather to comply with a sense of duty than to give vent to the light-hearted gaiety and naïve enjoyment which breathed in every line of her earlier communications.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
"I do not eat Wapoos; but if everything else fails--if the Fish fail, if there are no Berries, if the Nuts and the Seeds are dried in the heart before they ripen, we still have Wapoos to carry us over.
— from Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries by William Alexander Fraser
But I have pointed out the opposition between a hypothetical working society ,— i.e. such that all its goods are produced by labour,—and a society, economic certainly, but not exclusively working, because it enjoys goods given by nature, as well as the products of labour.
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce
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