When they kill a fox they skin it, wrap the body in grass, and bid him go tell his companions how hospitably he has been received, and how he has received a new cloak instead of his old one.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The sovereigns of China, those of Bengal while under the Mahometan govermnent, and those of ancient Egypt, are said, accordingly, to have been extremely attentive to the making and maintaining of good roads and navigable canals, in order to increase, as much as possible, both the quantity and value of every part of the produce of the land, by procuring to every part of it the most extensive market which their own dominions could afford.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Nay, even the bells, inaudible in the metropolis, but in the country proclaiming our happiness, will thereby require a new charm in our ears, and their music will awake a new sympathy amidst its many dear and holy associations.
— from Trevethlan: A Cornish Story. Volume 3 (of 3) by William Davy Watson

There was a man, long ago with God, who after much waiting obtained a fine coveted room at New College: instead of writing a sonnet forthwith, he expressed a wish to kick some one downstairs incontinently.
— from Oxford by Edward Thomas

We are not to accept or to reject a new construction (if otherwise the more colorable) of the word aeonian , simply because the consequences might seem such as upon the whole to displease us.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

urse of his Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn COMPACT with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity—do, in the name and in behalf of the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, assent to and ratify the said Constitution for the United States of America.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

[Pg 111] "I leave the reward of my trifling services to the generosity of your Excellency," said Nalaczy, thinking that without doubt the Szeklers would now receive a new captain instead of Beldi.
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

T T HE Hydras, as a rule, are not coloured in our sense of the term; that is to say, they are of a general uniform brown colour.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor

In 1880 a contract was arranged between the two companies whereby the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, in order to share in the traffic, undertook to construct a line eastward to meet the Northern Pacific line at the mouth of the Snake River.
— from The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States by John Moody