Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon to Mr. Cutler’s, and there dined with Sir W. Rider and him, and thence Sir W. Rider and I by coach to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery; there only to hear Sir Edward Ford’s proposal about farthings, wherein, O God!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They are capable of judging only of the surface of things; of those matters which come in contact with their private interests and personal gratifications.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

It has certain organs naturally fitted to produce a passion; that passion, when produced, naturally turns the view to a certain object.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The ground expenses, as they are called, or what the landlord lays out upon the improvement of his land, are, in this system, too, honoured with the appellation of productive expenses.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

'There! they are coming out from the court already.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

So in order to justify a statement that “a condition of general and complete peace” had continued in these two great provinces of Cavite and Batangas, which they had but shortly previously declared to be in a state of insurrection, and been upheld by the Supreme Court in so doing, they resort to the old Otis expedient of 1898–9, worked on the American people through Mr. McKinley to show absence of lack of consent-of-the-governed.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

NOSTRADAMUS.—FROM THE FRONTISPIECE TO A COLLECTION OF HIS PROPHECIES, PUBLISHED
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Put fish skin or isinglass size of a nine pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But it is to the mind an education in the doctrine of Use, namely, that a thing is good only so far as it serves; that a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end, is essential to any being.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When Quintus Maximus, who had been his deputy in the consulship for the last three months, entered the theatre, and the lictor, according to custom, bid the people take notice who was coming, they all cried out, “He is no consul.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

To convince the Canadians also, who are as incredulous on some points as they are credulous on others, that it was really maple sugar that they saw thus refined, he has contrived to have large lumps, exhibiting the sugar in its different stages toward refinement, the lower part of the lumps being left hard, similar to the common cakes, the middle part granulated, and the upper part refined.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

She gave them a couple of dollars and got on board.
— from The Night-Born by Jack London

Besides, ' I reasoned, ' when once we are married, it will be very easy for me to wheedle the affectionate creature out of any money that I may require .'
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

But indeed I knew not that my sovereign lady the princess had absconded from the courtly circle of her father's palace, and betaken herself to a convent on my account.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

In this I also put some small tools belonging to the ship, with several other articles, particularly a journal kept by the second mate, Mr. Ingraham, and a collection of drawings and views of places taken by him, which I had the good fortune to preserve, and on my arrival at Boston, I gave them to a connection of his, the Honourable Judge Dawes, who sent them to his family in New York.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

They turned a corner of the highway, and drove rattling through a village street up a long slope to the rounded hill which it crowned.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

In these councils, every listening Indian must have felt that his own home, the lodge built by his father, and the patch of maize cultivated by his family, were dependent on the issue of the negotiation, and yet it is not upon record that a chief or elder brave was ever interrupted in his speech, or that the decorum of the council was infringed by irregularity or tumult on the part of those who might have considered themselves injured and aggrieved.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

At the annual ceremony of walking through fire (hot ashes) in that year, two factions arose owing to some dissension, and two sets of ashes were used.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The Yankee army, now commanded by General Burnside, was in camp on the opposite side of the Rappahannock River, on what was called Stafford Heights, which overlooked the town and country on 144 the south side, their thousands of white tents being in plain view from the hills on the south side of the river.
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan

On at least two other occasions the vicinage was similarly combed for emergency supplies—for the American celebrations of both Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, 1918.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford