Scientists estimate that there is energy enough in less than fifty acres of sunshine to run all the machinery in the world, if it could be concentrated.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Otherwise they would follow it no longer, although it were the custom; for they will only submit to reason or justice.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

She had conspired with the sea-born pirates of the North (the ocean storms) to rob her Cambrian lord of his domains.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

“Oho!” says this Rokesmith;' here Mr Boffin clapped a finger against his nose, and tapped it several times with a sneaking air, as embodying Rokesmith confidentially confabulating with his own nose; '“This will be a good haul; I'll go in for this!”
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Or, supposing the rake reformed, he cannot quickly get rid of old habits.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

a small Vessel ill repaired, and without Provisions, or Stores; they resolved one and all, with the little Supplies they could get, to proceed for the West-Indies , not doubting to find a Remedy for all these Evils, and to retreive their Loss.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

On one side, the rotting roofs and unpaved enclosure of the Cour des Miracles could be descried.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

A quadrille may be very properly described as a conversation dance, as there are long pauses between the figures, when the dancers must have a fund of small talk ready for their partners.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

“Then I grew angry and cursed, with the curse of silence, the river, and the lilies, and the wind, and the forest, and the heaven, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water-lilies.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Vane grew seriously alarmed; he repented that he had yielded to Gertrude’s wish of substituting the Rhine for the Tiber or the Arno; and would even now have hurried across the Alps to a warmer clime, if Du——-e had not declared that she could not survive the journey, and that her sole chance of regaining her strength was rest.
— from The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Victor and Oudinot had not dared to risk a decisive engagement; and the two Russian armies were about to combine in order to bar our passage over the Berezina, the only way of safety to return to Poland.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

These circumstances, however, only softened the resistance which Flora had at first made to the scheme suggested for his escape, and renewed her desire to aid him.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

Certainly it will need all our statesmanship to realize the possibilities I have sketched.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various

The salt of saturn there recommended, is the same as sugar of lead.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

[41] , and was received by him with much affability; he said, that he wished he had more opportunities of shewing the regard which he entertained for my countrymen, and that some of them would come and settle in his captaincy.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

France needs every son, be they crippled or strong, To rid our fair land of the murderous horde: So flock to the Colors, Brave Boys: come along!
— from The Bee's Bayonet (a Little Honey and a Little Sting) Camouflage in Word Painting by Edwin Alfred Watrous

I had no thought of the night's beauty, for it only served to remind me that somewhere amid London's millions was lurking an uncanny being, whose life was a mystery, whose very existence was a scientific miracle.
— from The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

To teach cleanliness, order, and neatness; to impart knowledge enough to enable the idiot to take care of himself; to develop his affections; to enable him to read and write; to practise some easy handicraft; to partake of some simple pleasures, and so at length to return to the shelter of his own home, and to be there, not an object to be hidden away, too painful to look upon, but an object rather of special tenderness, repaying with his guileless love the sad self-sacrifice of his parents for many a year; these are endeavours almost sure of accomplishment in a well-conducted institution, sure never to be realised in a home.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

If land is wanted for a road, or a fort, or a canal, it must be taken, under a law, by appraisement, or the thing could not be had at all; but to pretend, because one side to a contract wishes to alter it, that the State has a right to interfere, on the ground that the discontented can be bought off in this way easier and cheaper than they can be made to obey the laws, is but a poor way of supporting the right.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper