When the landlord, annuitant, or monied man, has a greater revenue than what he judges sufficient to maintain his own family, he employs either the whole or a part of the surplus in maintaining one or more menial servants.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Twas not long since I met one of my old Acquaintance, who told me that he had lately cast off these Prejudices he had conceived against the Christian Faith, by the Assistance of a Book called, The Five Letters of Inspiration.
— from An Account of the Growth of Deism in England by William Stephens

The answer I reserve, and meantime I remark: Secondly, that, supposing this answer to have any force, still it meets only one moiety of the Scriptural fatality; viz., the dispersion of the Jews—the fact that, let them be gathered in what numbers they might, let them even be concentrated by millions, therefore in the literal sense not dispersed, yet in the political sense universally understood, they would be dispersed, because never, in no instance, rising to be a people, sui juris , a nation, a distinct community, known to the public law of Europe as having the rights of peace and war, but always a mere accident and vagrant excess amongst nations, not having the bare rights of citizenship; so far from being a nation, [Pg 66] not being an acknowledged member of any nation.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Some two years later I was sitting in my office one morning when I heard the sergeant-major order the reserve duty men to fall in with their rifles; half a minute later he appeared before me and reported that a man had run "amok" in the village, and after killing one man and wounding two others he had bolted into the jungle.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

At first I did not know what it was, so I made one of my other wives taste it, and as she pronounced it to be good, I ate the rest myself.
— from A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I wish to assure you that I had no feeling in the matter, and that I am quite sincere in my offer of my services."
— from The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells

3. Roman mortaria composed of earthenware are very commonly found, and many examples may be seen in most of our museums among other Roman remains.
— from The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson