It can always purchase or command a greater or smaller quantity of labour, and somebody can always be found who is willing to do something in order to obtain it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

They were found to contain plenty of corn, and wine made from palm dates, and an acidulated beverage extracted by boiling from the same fruit.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

there was one voice that had sounded in that proud Parliament, that free from the slang of faction, had dared to express immortal truths: the voice of a noble, who without being a demagogue, had upheld the popular cause; had pronounced his conviction that the rights of labour were as sacred as those of property; that if a difference were to be established, the interests of the living wealth ought to be preferred; who had declared that the social happiness of the millions should be the first object of a statesman, and that if that were not achieved, thrones and dominions, the pomp and power of courts and empires, were alike worthless.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Had he done so, he would have found, to take one example among many, that the principle of permanence was of this character, and that it, as well as the principle of causality, anticipates experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The power and policy of Charlemagne annihilated an enemy, and imposed a master.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Now Co-Chone, analogous to Beth-El, Beth-Shan, Beth-Dagon, signifies the temple of the Deity; the house of the great king, or ruler: for such is the purport of Con, and Conah.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Government by masters means bad conditions of labour and fettered powers of combination among workmen.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

Such, however, is the case in certain other judgments, which in contradistinction to these blind judgments may be termed “obvious,” “self-evident” judgments; {18} as, for example, the Principle of Contradiction, and every so-called inner perception which informs me that I am now experiencing sensations of sound or colour, or think and will this or that.
— from The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Franz Brentano

The price of copying an ingrain design is from $3 to $6 per sheet.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

Mr. Goldwin Smith, whose work is not likely to be impeached for defect either in form or in substance, wrote but a few months ago, in melancholy mood, that the province of criticism appeared to be now limited to the saying of fine things.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

They called to her to join them, but even the prospect of capturing a sea monster had for [174] the moment no charms, so she shook her head and volunteered instead to stay in the hut and get tea ready for their return.
— from Bosom Friends: A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil

The penalty of calling a suit must be exacted from whichever of them next first obtains the lead.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

The newspaper men found plenty of copy at first, in chronicling the doings of the big fellows, telling how this one was working up his pitching speed, or how that one was improving his batting.
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

Such is the psychology of clothes and the effect of environment upon some temperaments that that was the way Mr. Toomey felt about it.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart