The parochial clergy are like those teachers whose reward depends partly upon their salary, and partly upon the fees or honoraries which they get from their pupils; and these must always depend, more or less, upon their industry and reputation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du Petit-Banquier.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Madame Montoni had contrived to have the greatest part of what she really did possess, settled upon herself: what remained, though it was totally inadequate both to her husband's expectations, and to his necessities, he had converted into money, and brought with him to Venice, that he might a little longer delude society, and make a last effort to regain the fortunes he had lost.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever— Jupiter omnipotens, rerum, regumque, demque, Progenitor, genitrixque.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

“It is a rather dangerous practice,” admitted Anne, out of the depths of her own experience.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

SYN: Repulsive, deterrent, prohibitory, offensive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

28 Note 25 ( return ) [ Dexippus, p. 7—12.
— 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

"Doubtless, my boy; but if you will allow me—" said the really delighted Professor.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

"Of a verity, I know not," replied Don Pedro, "it is most possibly a person visited of God!—a helpless being of brains.
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

It was here that the Encyclopædia exerted really destructive power, and it did so in the only way in which power of that kind can be exerted either wisely or effectually.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Morley

Notwithstanding this, it is equally true to assert that on the whole the distinct impression left by Mr. Washington's propaganda is, first, that the South is justified in its present attitude toward the Negro because of the Negro's degradation; secondly, that the prime cause of the Negro's failure to rise more quickly is his wrong education in the past; and, thirdly, that his future rise depends primarily on his own efforts.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

See [ DUNCAN FOODS CO. TELEVISION COMMERCIALS ] BUTTER-NUT REGULAR DISCOVERY POOL.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The second great stage of culture, which we may call, though somewhat inaccurately, the Malayo-Polynesian, offers a radically different picture.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

I had been there about twenty minutes when I caught sight of Roger de Puymartin escaping furtively.
— from L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 1 by Ludovic Halévy

The cause of these strange and regular variations of brightness was supposed by Herschel to be the rotation of the star bodily on an axis, by which revolution different parts [Pg 134] of its surface, of different brilliancy, were successively and periodically presented to us.
— from Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden

in length, even though situated at the greatest radial distance possible, being sufficient to destroy all localizing power of the manubrium as regards the middle point of the corresponding arc of the margin, and a stimulus applied only a few millims.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

He is no less representative in his comedias de capa y espada —his plays of intrigue, which are really dramatic presentations of ordinary contemporary manners in the vein of high comedy.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly