But though the risk arising from the prohibition might occasion some extraordinary expense to the bankers, it would not necessarily carry any more money out of the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The houses were flat-roofed and but one or two stories high, and about the plaza the roofs were manned with infantry, the troops being protected from our fire by parapets made of sand-bags.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

BARBEL, fresh-water fish. BARE, meer; bareheaded; it was "a particular mark of state and grandeur for the coachman to be uncovered" (Gifford).
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, “Go,” and to say to the latter in his turn: “Be free”; to sacrifice to personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should accumulate upon him,—this was what overwhelmed him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Perfectly to understand this symbol, I must refer, as a preliminary matter, to the worship of the Phallus , a peculiar modification of sun-worship, which prevailed to a great extent among the nations of antiquity.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“Where you please, after you have put me on shore at Portsmouth.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

To gull him the more, and fetch him over (for him only I aimed at) I personated mine own servant to bring in a present from a Spanish count, whilst he was in my company, as if he had been the count's servant, which he did excellently well perform:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then, taking a great and goodly pot, of those wherein they plant marjoram or sweet basil, she set the head therein, folded in a fair linen cloth, and covered it with earth, in which she planted sundry heads of right fair basil of Salerno; nor did she ever water these with other water than that of her tears or rose or orange-flower water.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Compromise (Nagoda) of 1868 was as decisive as the murder of the farsighted Prince Michael of Serbia in that year.
— from The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement by Frank Alfred Golder

[3] Hara-kiri is an honourable form of capital punishment, is also a popular method of suicide.
— from The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson

But never before had he shown such a callous want of sympathy with her past misfortunes or such a frank hostility to her present outlook on life.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

"Just put my old suit in a box, and I'll call for it in an hour."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Wherever we go the minds of men are feverishly debating some new political measure or some new scheme for the reconstruction of society.
— from The Hero in Man by George William Russell

“I believe I have quite finished,” he returned, mimicking her cold, precise manner of speech.
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer

In the prosecution of these consignments, I would propose to obtain [191] a more exact computation of the actual consumption; what quantity might probably find a sale there, and the most probable means of success in such sales, whether by waiting for a demand in the ordinary way, or by public sales there; conducted upon the outlines of those made in England, by fixing a future day of payment, and by a restriction in selling any future quantity for a limited time, but particularly (under my mode) in what manner, and within what time assurances can be given by remittances being made on account of such sales.
— from Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake

It was thought that his education, the restraints from profligacy which the public morals of Scotland imposed, and his apparently sincere attachment to Protestantism, would guaranty to them fair toleration, if not actual power.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The gentleman of today who delightedly dons his dress suit and escorts into a ten-course dinner some lady mountain climber or other celebrity, is probably little aware of what he owes to his forefathers for having so painstakingly devised for him such a pleasant method of spending his time.
— from Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises by Donald Ogden Stewart

WHAT LIBERTY BONDS MEAN PATRIOTISM, VICTORY, THE SOUNDEST INVESTMENT IN THE WORLD, A PERFECT MEANS OF SAVING BUY ALL
— from Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades