The very same thing then occurred in all the families of the South as still happens in the wealthy families of some countries in Europe, namely, that the younger sons remain in the same state of idleness as their elder brother, without being as rich as he is.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In its final analysis, “The Spirit of the United States Steel Corporation” is efficiency, not applied merely to the mechanical processes of manufacturing, but to the human element behind these processes; the efficiency that abides in a healthy, well-housed, and contented workman.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

The reflection which finds a profounder connotation for Being and Nothing is nothing but logical thought, through which such connotation is evolved, not, however, in an accidental, but a necessary way.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Three wooden ships of the North gave gallant but useless fight to her and were destroyed that day; and the news spread consternation in every Northern port.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

A vast deal is consumed, and we are beginning to understand that it is properly a table-wine, or one that is to be taken with the meats; but sparkling champagne is, ex necessitate , a wine of inferior quality.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

"We shall have to publish reports of our special convalescents in every number of the school magazine," suggested Iris Watson.
— from The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story by Angela Brazil