And he used to argue that labour was a good thing, by adducing the examples of the great Hercules, and of Cyrus, one of which he derived from the Greeks and the other from the barbarians.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In order to avoid the inconveniency of such situations, every prudent man in every period of society, after the first establishment of the division of labour, must naturally have endeavoured to manage his affairs in such a manner, as to have at all times by him, besides the peculiar produce of his own industry, a certain quantity of some one commodity or other, such as he imagined few people would be likely to refuse in exchange for the produce of their industry.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But in that you, my brother, having been instructed in monastic rules, must not live apart from your clergy in the Church of the English, which has been lately, by the will of God, converted to the faith, you must establish the manner of conversation of our fathers in the primitive Church, among whom, none said that aught of the things which they possessed was his own, but they had all things common.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

With this last thaler I staked my life, for my return to my home was, of course, out of the question.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

She took a pack of cards out of the chest of drawers, and decided that if after shuffling the cards well and cutting, the bottom card turned out to be a red one, it would mean _yes_--that is, she would accept Laptev's offer; and that if it was a black, it would mean _no_.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Sarangdeot chief of Kanor (on the borders of Chappan), one of the sixteen lords of Mewar, is also a descendant of Lakha, as are some of the tribes of Sondwara, about Pharphara and the ravines of the Kali Sind.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great’s old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We are pleased to welcome again to our columns, our old and much respected friend " Nugator ," and equally so to learn that he is convalescent from a severe illness which has kept his pen idle for some time.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 8, April, 1835 by Various

Each specialist perceives this more or less clearly as he is working out the result of complicated observations or calculations.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

313 Something peculiar in the station or character of one of the persons, rendered him in each case more prominent, and led the two latter Evangelists to speak of him particularly.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

Of course one of her pens had been used and flung down still wet with its nib resting against the handle of the other pens....
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

The second is Fechner's method; it consists of recording the changes in feeling-tone produced in a subject by bringing him in contact with a series of conditions, objects or stimuli graduated according to a scientific plan and presented singly in pairs or in groups.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

We set off from Vienna in the evening with a family of Wallachians as our companions, one of whom, an elderly man, could speak no German, and began to address G. in Wallachian, as if that were the common language of all the earth.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

Some one had found, in an empty saddle-bag, an old copy of Oliver Twist .
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

In order that there may be no suspicion of unfairness to the promoters of the preparation, we quote from one of the advertising circulars sent out by the Oxychlorine Company: “Oxychlorine owes its recognition as a therapeutic agent to its six principal qualities: “1.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Besides, my government, as you must know, will firmly oppose every movement, not only against Paris, our capital, or our two great prefectures, Rome and Madrid, but also against the kingdom of Jerusalem, the dominion of Saint Peter, of which France means to be the trusty defender.
— from In the Year 2889 by Michel Verne

Corner boys are allowed to return only one copy out of every ten bought, being reimbursed by the office for its cost.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper