his labour to support him, either by taxing him to parish rates, or by electing him into a parish office.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

La imaginación, a vista de ello, [1] se complace en fingir dotados a esos animales de las cualidades humanas que de un modo más o menos patente remedan, o bien en atribuirles los mismos oficios o ministerios que el hombre ejerce.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

36.—Diagram of Simplest Arrangement of Complete Stele in a Stem W , Central solid wood; P , ring of bast; E , enclosing sheath of endodermis; C , ground tissue or cortex.
— from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of Nature by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Sheridan had left the gateway via the fords of the Potomac river open, but Early was too foxy to take the lure.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

In the principal regions occupied by European cultivation, and where alone the questions discussed in this volume are recognized as having, at present, any practical importance, more or less rain falls at all seasons, and it is to these regions that, on this point as well as others, I chiefly confine my attention.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

The barber was about to apply the razor, when a small boy clad in a perfect rash of buttons entered the shop.
— from Jack and the Check Book by John Kendrick Bangs

The coast country is so desolate and arid that at some of these purely nitrate towns school-children's knowledge of trees and other plants is derived solely from painted representations on boardings erected for the purpose.
— from Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

But if any one comes out into the public streets and creates disorder, he or she should be punished, restrained, or banished, either to the rear or front, as the officer in command adjudges.
— from Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

If you are poor and have to sell your free-agency for a sixpence a week to some penurious relative, or be everlastingly thankful for the gift of an old garment that won't hang together till you get it home!
— from The Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern by William U. Moulton