The second class are taxed at seventy; the third at fifty; and the fourth, com
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Agmurdi had born to him two thousand five hundred children, and became a separate caste, assuming the appellation of Agmurdi Vellal Wāru.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And Lady Tippins really does work, and work the Veneering horses too; for she clatters about town all day, calling upon everybody she knows, and showing her entertaining powers and green fan to immense advantage, by rattling on with, My dear soul, what do you think?
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Bits of broken statues and stones, considered as the abode of the demons, were collected and brought to the capital.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Have you noticed that it is the most civilised gentlemen who have been the subtlest slaughterers, to whom the Attilas and Stenka Razins could not hold a candle, and if they are not so conspicuous as the Attilas and Stenka Razins it is simply because they are so often met with, are so ordinary and have become so familiar to us.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

whispered Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, and she caught at the arm of the chair with both hands to avoid falling.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

1 Sir , ' Observing that you have Thoughts of creating certain Officers under you for the Inspection of several petty Enormities which you your self cannot attend to; and finding daily Absurdities hung out upon the Sign-Posts of this City 2 , to the great Scandal of Foreigners, as well as those of our own Country, who are curious Spectators of the same: I do humbly propose, that you would be pleased to make me your Superintendant of all such Figures and Devices, as are or shall be made use of on this Occasion; with full Powers to rectify or expunge whatever I shall find irregular or defective.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It makes no difference whether the slaveholder worships the God of the Christians, or is a follower of Mahomet, he is the minister of the same cruelty, and the author of the same misery.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The tramp that startled camp and town, And shook the walls of slavery down, The spectral march of old John Brown!
— from Poems in Wartime Part 4 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

After agreeing that all settlements made with the employers should cover all trades, and sending a letter to the independent steel companies inviting conferences with them, the meeting adjourned and the organizers and delegates left to make good the following strike call, of which 200,000 copies, in seven languages, had been scattered broadcast throughout the entire steel industry: STRIKE SEPTEMBER 22, 1919
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

An episode: Miss Nightingale's intervention to save the Army Sanitary Commission and the Army Medical School from being retrenched out of existence—Statistical evidence of sanitary reform.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

He was undoubtedly a stranger; his action was meant to convey to Barnes the information that he too was from a distant and sophisticated community, and that a bond of sympathy existed between them.
— from Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon

When Alice went a-shopping, she bought a bed of brass, A bureau and some chairs and things and such a lovely glass To reflect her little figure—with two candle brackets near— And a little dressing table that she said was simply dear!
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

Foch looked at this strapping cadet, and then at his own much slighter frame, and a feeling akin to envy came over him, as he may have said to himself: "If only I could have got into it like that fellow Joffre!"
— from Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

We must leave the Buccaneer in the hands of his skilful captain and take a turn ashore.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

And by now, she could almost tell at a glance which were the right and which the wrong kind of Anglo-Indian, so far as she and Nevil were concerned.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver