The Marquis D’Oyse, to his shame, consented, and promised to marry her himself on her attaining the age of twelve, if the father would pay him down the sum of a hundred thousand crowns, and twenty thousand livres every year until the celebration of the marriage.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

As in a well ordered state of things, therefore, those ground expenses, over and above reproducing in the completest manner their own value, occasion likewise, after a certain time, a reproduction of a neat produce, they are in this system considered as productive expenses.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

During the secession of the commons, Sp. Cassius and Postumus Cominius entered on the consulship.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

One knows, of course, what they bring about: they undermine the Will to Power, they are the levelling of mountain and valley exalted to a morality, they make people small, cowardly and pleasure-loving,—by means of them the gregarious animal invariably triumphs.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On the same continent, also, pre-occupation has probably played an important part in checking the commingling of the species which inhabit different districts with nearly the same physical conditions.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The extinction of species and of whole groups of species, which has played so conspicuous a part in the history of the organic world, almost inevitably follows on the principle of natural selection; for old forms will be supplanted by new and improved forms.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

While Plymouth, Salem, Chelsea, and Providence had taverns that served coffee, they did not achieve the name and fame of some of the more celebrated coffee houses in Boston.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I would not for once intimate that I entertain the thought that the ignorant slave carefully and philosophically studied his surroundings, reasoned it to be a fine method to warn children through poetry, composed verse, and like a wise man proceeded to use it.
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

I can see no real difference between the payment of a sum of money as a fine and its payment as damages; but more than that, I think a mistake has been made in separating civil and penal measures too absolutely, whereas they ought to be conjoined for defensive purposes, in preventing certain particular anti-social acts.''
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

"Henry," he said, cheerfully and pleasantly, "if you were fishing in the river, and I were to come and throw stones in where your line fell, and scare away all the fish, would you like it?" "No, I should not," the lad replied.
— from Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

He has a heavy, bronze moustache, a clean shaven chin and plump, ruddy cheeks.
— from Life in a Railway Factory by Alfred Williams

He looks so calm and peaceful and happy, just as you never saw him look."
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

" Douglas challenged Percy to meet him in single combat, and Percy promptly accepted.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

What a pity!" "And when I came to my senses—I had fainted, you understand—I was sitting on the old straw chair and papa was holding my hands in his and calling me his angel!
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

But if, for some cause at present non-apparent, we were forced to put troops ashore against organized Turkish opposition, then he advocated a landing on the Asiatic side of the [Pg 11] Bosphorus to hold out a hand to the Russians, who would simultaneously land there from the Black Sea.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton