Whatever human reason could either conclude or conjecture concerning them, made, as it were, two chapters, though no doubt two very important ones, of the science which pretended to give an account of the origin and revolutions of the great system of the universe.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In this case, as well as when two young dogs are chasing each other in play, it appears as if the one that runs away was afraid of the other catching him by the tail; but as far as I can find out, dogs very rarely catch each other in this manner.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

You cannot restore Central Europe to 1870 without setting up such strains in the European structure and letting loose such human and spiritual forces as, pushing beyond frontiers and races, will overwhelm not only you and your "guarantees," but your institutions, and the existing order of your Society.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

estourdi , amazed, rash (Cotg.), estordi , pp. of estordir ; from Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

There are works of his also enumerated in a regular catalogue, extending to twenty thousand verses, which are mentioned by Antigonus, of Carystos, who also wrote his life.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Dr. W. Ogle [1206] has been so kind as to search the best recent authorities on the functions of the eustachian tube, and he informs me that it is almost conclusively proved that it remains closed except during the act of deglutition; and that in persons in whom the tube remains abnormally open, the sense of hearing, as far as external sounds are concerned, is by no means improved; on the contrary, it is impaired by the respiratory sounds being rendered more distinct.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

An impression of this cut is preserved in the Public Library at Basle; and an alphabet of Roman capitals, engraved on wood, is printed on the same folio, below Lutzelburger’s name.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

[8] "No republic can ever be of any duration, without a Senate, and a Senate deeply and strongly rooted, strong enough to bear up against all popular storms and passions.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

James Finnecy George R. R. Cushing Edmund J. Caws Frederick P. Voisey Tempy.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

"He'd be cavortin' 'round jest the same if a whole fleet had hove to off here," Uncle Zenas cried, and without waiting to make any reply, Captain Eph hurried to one of the windows, from which Sidney was already gazing out with a look of wonderment on his face.
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

The mariner may stop a moment, even in a gale, while at the yard-arm, to blow his freezing fingers; but not so with the lumberman with a loaded boat in a rapid current: every finger is needed every moment, as life and property would be endangered by paying even slight attention to cold fingers.
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

He listened to the story of my sufferings, and tears rapidly coursed each other down his rough, weather-beaten face.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

But enough of the workers, though not too much in the case of such remarkable contemporary exponents of a new kind of Human Comedy: let us go to the work.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

“The Congress,” said the report, cannot enter into the details of these tactics; such things depend upon the initiative and the temperament of each and are subordinate to the diversity of industries.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin