[and the United States are] at the head of them, in which neither the spirit of industry nor the effective desire of accumulation need any encouragement.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

[195] We passed five days in the zariba, attacked once, if not twice, every day.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

It seems odd, when I think of it now, the endless delight we children got just from the contemplation and discussion of those buttons.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

To-day it is generally taken to mean the science of the phenomena of inorganic nature, their empirical determination by observation and experiment (experimental physics), and their reduction to fixed natural laws and mathematical formulæ (theoretical or mathematical physics).
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

The nadir of the sonne is thilke degree that is opposit to the degree of the sonne, in the seventhe signe, as thus: 10 every degree of Aries by ordre is nadir to every degree of Libra by ordre; and Taurus to Scorpion; Gemini to Sagittare; Cancer to Capricorne; Leo to Aquarie; Virgo to Pisces; and yif any degree in thy zodiak be dirk, his nadir shal declare him.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer