I shall conclude this long chapter with observing, that though anciently it was usual to rate wages, first by general laws extending over the whole kingdom, and afterwards by particular orders of the justices of peace in every particular county, both these practices have now gone entirely into disuse.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Most Beautiful Coffee House in the World The Caffè Pedrocchi in Padua, Italy, empire period, erected by the poor lemonade vendor and coffee seller, Antonio Pedrocchi.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Silver had two guns slung about him—one before and one behind—besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the third, easy is modified by the adverb very ; in the fourth, false is modified by the adverbial phrase in every particular ; in the last, tight is modified by perfectly .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Esto casi era un defecto a los ojos de gran número de personas 30 que le estimaban, porque nuestro joven aparecía un poco irrespetuoso en presencia de multitud de hechos comunes en el mundo y admitidos por todos.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Si l'activité de vente de livres d'occasion se montre prometteuse, il est possible que j'en fasse une activité professionnelle sous la forme d'une micro-entreprise.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The ancient show of justice, the holy residencia , has disappeared; confusion of ideas begins to prevail; the regard shown for a governor-general, like La Torre, becomes a crime in the government of his successor, sufficient to cause the citizen to lose his liberty and his home; if he obey the order of one official, as in the recent matter of admitting corpses into the church, it is enough to have the obedient subject later harassed and persecuted in every possible way; obligations and taxes increase without thereby increasing rights, privileges [ 52 ] and liberties or assuring the few in existence; a régime of continual terror and uncertainty disturbs the minds, a régime worse than a period of disorder, for the fears that the imagination conjures up are generally greater than the reality; the country is poor; the financial crisis through which it is passing is acute, and every one points out with the finger the persons who are causing the trouble, yet no one dares lay hands upon them!
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Again we have followed the ancients in subdividing lyric poetry into elegy, pastoral, ode, satire, idyll.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

But the fact remains that in the mass and, as it were, at a distance the effect of titles on the imagination of the British people is extraordinarily powerful.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

The place indicates extreme poverty, but is clean and orderly.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

Gaspar dʼEspinosa, and Diego de Alvarez, endeavoured to conquer and explore Veragua, but [178] being repulsed in all their attempts by the natives under their sovereign Urraca, they were obliged to form a settlement in the neighbourhood, and fonded the city of Santiago; but here they were assailed by these valiant Indians, and were obliged to strengthen their position in every possible manner to resist their frequent attacks.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

This folly is personified, in early painting and illumination, by a half-naked man, greedily eating an apple or other fruit, and brandishing a club; showing that sensuality and violence are the two principal characteristics of Foolishness, and lead into atheism.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

They knew almost all of the great stories for children that have been written by the different peoples of the world, and they were so used to having their father speak partly in English, partly in Latin and partly in French, that they did not mind that at all.
— from Azalea at Sunset Gap by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Our guides reported that they had found copper in large pieces in every part of this range, for two days' walk to the north-west, and that the Esquimaux come hither to search for it.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

And quite recently in Iowa, where one Shulz was tried for manslaughter because his patient died under the Baunscheidt practice, i. e. , pricking the body and rubbing in a certain kind of oil, the Court on review said: “In 2 Bishop’s Criminal Law, (4th Ed.) sec.
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

22012-5 Pa. $7.9 CHINA AND ITS PEOPLE IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS, John Thomson.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent