PIECES OF EIGHT, Spanish coin: piastre equal to eight reals.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Oh, what Pagan emotions to expect from a Christian Englishwoman anchored firmly on her faith!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I shall, in the third place, endeavour to explain all the different circumstances which regulate this proportion.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That one must not be doubtful about the rhythm-determining syllables, that one should feel the breaking of the too-rigid symmetry as intentional and as a charm, that one should lend a fine and patient ear to every STACCATO and every RUBATO, that one should divine the sense in the sequence of the vowels and diphthongs, and how delicately and richly they can be tinted and retinted in the order of their arrangement—who among book-reading Germans is complaisant enough to recognize such duties and requirements, and to listen to so much art and intention in language?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is petty expenses that empty the purse.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The following year the interposition of England was repeated with greater effect, although not in time to save the Swedish coasts from serious injury; but the czar, recognizing the fixed purpose with which he had to deal, and knowing from personal observation and practical experience the efficiency of England's sea power, consented finally to peace.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Before the palace Enter the EMPEROR, and the EMPRESS and her two sons, DEMETRIUS and CHIRON; LORDS and others.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For, let us take for granted that an object may be found in experience for this transcendental idea; the empirical intuition of such an object must then be recognized to contain absolutely no manifold with its parts external to each other, and connected into unity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

How does the evolution of publicity exhibit the extension of communication by human invention?
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

What this means is, that at a certain prehistoric epoch, the epoch of epic poetry, mythology had passed from the primitive and fluid state, and had become the subject-matter of the arts.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Her dressing-room, with the large bay window, commanding a beautiful view of Stoneborough, and filled, but not crowded, with every sort of choice article, was a perfect exhibition to eyes unaccustomed to such varieties.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The French Edition may be obtained at the London, and the English Edition at the Paris Establishments THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CXCI., was published on WEDNESDAY last.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

In that case the phrase expresses the element or sphere in which the act is done.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

In later years, when the Jesuits and courtiers gathered about the fallen monarch in his pleasant exile, the entire blame for the folly was naturally laid upon the wicked Earl of Sunderland, and historians have, perhaps, paid unnecessarily serious attention to this charge.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

"Kathleen, as a child, used to slip in unseen, and as the majority of the people enter the elevator facing the floor button plate with their backs to where she stood, she gave her governesses many scares."
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

[Pg 96] there was in a bundle a particular pamphlet entitled The Eighth Day , 1661, an ephemeral poem on the Restoration by Richard Beling, of which Sir James Ware had descended to the grave without beholding a copy.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt