It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I recollect when she was only two years and a half old, that a gentleman who used to visit very much at our house—Mr. Watkins, you know, Kate, my dear, that your poor papa went bail for, who afterwards ran away to the United States, and sent us a pair of snow shoes, with such an affectionate letter that it made your poor dear father cry for a week.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Shows Federal and State recreational areas throughout the United States and gives brief descriptions of principal ones.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

To render the matter even surer yet, however, this bullet was discovered to have a flaw or seam at right angles to the usual suture, and upon examination, this seam corresponded precisely with an accidental ridge or elevation in a pair of moulds acknowledged by the accused himself to be his own property.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

People find their level as a rule; and though they unfortunately sometimes miss it, it is in the main true that those who have valuable qualities are perceived to have them and can sell them.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Though it is not very probable that any part of a tax, which is not only imposed upon one of the most proper subjects of taxation, a mere luxury and superfluity, but which affords so very important a revenue as the tax upon silver, will ever be given up as long as it is possible to pay it; yet the same impossibility of paying it, which, in 1736. made it necessary to reduce it from one-fifth to one-tenth, may in time make it necessary to reduce it still further; in the same manner as it made it necessary to reduce the tax upon gold to one-twentieth.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In that moment he revealed his real attitude towards the United States.
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis

Mr. Crittenden walked around and around restlessly, as though that upward swoop had been but an appetizer to his desire to let out the superabundance of his strength.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If such delegation shall make a selection satisfactory to the Indians they represent and to the United States, then the Indians are to remove to the selected country within one year, select allotments as soon as possible afterwards, and use their best efforts to cultivate the same.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

This party consists of twenty-five picked men of the armey and country likewise and I am so happy as to be one of them picked from the armey and I and all the party are if we live to return to receive our discharge whenever we return again to the United States if we choose it.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

The seed-petiole elongates itself into the seed-rib; this is continued upon the back of the phyllodium or testa, bends round, and returns again to the umbilicus, so as to describe a complete circle.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

305 By far the most important confirmation of Senora Duran’s testimony, however, has been supplied by confidential sources of extremely high reliability available to the United States in Mexico.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

The thrusts of the torture-fields they emanated became more and more racking, as the two unfortunates shuddered in horror and pain.
— from Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various