He is suspicious of the slightest adornment: everything that is thought clearly can be written simply.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Makuntrabandu giyud ang butang nga dílì ipaági sa kustum, Smuggled goods that don’t pass the Customs can be called contraband.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Our only business here is to show that, certain conditions being supposed, the possibility of attaining our purpose in different ways is no contradiction, absurdity, nor even error.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Just as she had risen from her chair, the Count came back into the room.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

By this disposition they were opposed to the cohort commanded by Alexander in person.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Jurgis had often wondered just who ate the canned corned beef and “roast beef” of the stockyards; now he began to understand—that it was what you might call “graft meat,” put up to be sold to public officials and contractors, and eaten by soldiers and sailors, prisoners and inmates of institutions, “shantymen” and gangs of railroad laborers.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It is hence the duty of the State to consider, in the imposition of taxes, what commodities the consumers can best spare; and à fortiori , to select in preference those of which it deems the use, beyond a very moderate quantity, to be positively injurious.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

In the country, close by the high road, stood a farmhouse; perhaps you have passed by and seen it yourself.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

M—— M—— attracted me more than C—— C——, but I would not for the world have offended the charming girl.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But now,—since I am irrevocably doomed,—wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution?
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

On the civil side of the calendar can be found many cases attracting attention, sometimes on account of the charges made, at other times on account of the large amounts of money involved.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Notwithstanding the crimes committed by the Taggee Rajah, Government directed his release, on his swearing future allegiance on his own behalf [ 211 ] and that of his tribe.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

I have seen the commercial competition between various countries compared with a horse race.
— from Six Letters From the Colonies by R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton

Still, she was always compliant in trifles, and at this time she desired to conciliate Charles by prompt obedience in such commands as her sensitive conscience could approve.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

for the last time!" "Come," cried Bertalda impatiently; "come, we have lost only too much time already!
— from The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III. by Friedrich Spielhagen

Just before noon the line of Getty, Ricketts, and Grover moved forward, and as we advanced, the Confederates, covered by some heavy woods on their right, slight underbrush and corn-fields along their Centre, and a large body of timber on their left along the Red Bud, opened fire from their whole front.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2 by Philip Henry Sheridan

Presently Uppington and its ruined castle appear upon our left, looking across Tern river to Withington, where the curious church brasses are.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

These were all originally borrowed in the countries conquered by the [152] Mohammedan Arabs, during the seventh century A.D. , Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and Persia.”
— from Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon

Then away over the rather rough sea, with a favourable wind, they ran for Naples, where it grew calmer, and at night the slow from the summit of the burning mountain was seen reflected on the clouds, while by day these clouds could be seen to be of smoke.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

I studied their countenances carefully, but I could not see any which, without knowing to whom they belonged, I should have decided was bad; yet Mrs. Fry assured me that all those women had been of the worst sort.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth