The proper way for a firm to act, if it wishes to enter upon a campaign of publicity, is to engage an efficient advertising staff or to employ a reliable advertising agent.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

“I always thought it was more like a buttercup almost than even a real one—and I NEVER thought it would come to be mine, my very own—and then Mother gave it to me for my birthday.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Drummle didn't say much, but in his limited way (he struck me as a sulky kind of fellow) he spoke as one of the elect, and recognized Mrs. Pocket as a woman and a sister.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Local Court of Honor may at any time invite experts to share in their examinations and recommendations.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

If the heart will not lay aside those vicious motions, and the fantasy those fond imaginations, we have another form of government to enforce and refrain our outward members, that they be not led by our passions.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Also, it would be an excellent thing if some reader in the higher walks of life, some person who stands remote, both by life and by education, from the circle of folk which I have pictured in my book, but who knows the life of the circle in which he himself revolves, would undertake to read my work in similar fashion, and methodically to recall to his mind any members of superior social classes whom he has met, and carefully to observe whether there exists any resemblance between one such class and another, and whether, at times, there may not be repeated in a higher sphere what is done in a lower, and likewise to note any additional fact in the same connection which may occur to him (that is to say, any fact pertaining to the higher ranks of society which would seem to confirm or to disprove his conclusions), and, lastly, to record that fact as it may have occurred within his own experience, while giving full details of persons (of individual manners, tendencies, and customs) and also of inanimate surroundings (of dress, furniture, fittings of houses, and so forth).
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

As soon as he perceived this, he orders the cavalry first to charge the enemy, after raising a loud shout; the line of infantry following, engaged with great fury.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In the very early periods, the princes of the Solar line, like the Egyptians and Romans, combined the offices of the priesthood with kingly power, and this whether Brahmanical or Buddhist.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The relation between the power and extent of migration in certain species, either at the present or at some former period, and the existence at remote points of the world of closely allied species, is shown in another and more general way.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

"In the eighth year of the period Hung-wu (1375), the Emperor Tai-tsu issued an order to his minister of finances to make the Pao-tsao (precious bills) of the Ta-Ming Dynasty, and to employ as raw material for the composition of those bills the fibres of the mulberry tree.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

After a prairie fire is a good time to go egging, the nests being in plain sight and the eggs already roasted.
— from Riverby by John Burroughs

Peradventure you will say, By the help of the Common Prayer Book; but that cannot do it, unless it can open the eyes, and reveal to the soul all these things before touched.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

We are, The Prattler will establish clearly, Quite competent to edit a review; The age of greatest wisdom will be seen To be decidedly below fifteen.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 by Various

If the Ambassador to Italy remarks to the State Department at Washington that Maxfield Hamilton seems a likely young chap with both eyes open and that he wouldn't mind having him on his staff, why Max may receive a document telling him to pack his little box and attach his person to the Embassy at Rome."
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

Mr. Grey, the uncle, did not hesitate to employ a ruffian to kill the lad.
— from Slow and Sure: The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

(1) That chronicle, which now and then, though seldom, is circumstantial, gives a curious account of the marriage of Richard duke of Gloucester and Anne Nevil, which I have found in no other author; and which seems to tax the envy and rapaciousness of Clarence as the causes of the dissention between the brothers.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

This explanation apparently relieved him of a very unpleasant train of thought, for he now became quite lively and talkative.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

The abdomen is round, and the middle stripe often very brightly colored, with white or yellow at the edges and red in the middle (fig.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

Living in constant intercourse with [172] the pontiff himself, they enjoyed all necessary liberty; they exercised for life the powers confided to them; they had no worldly care or fear, and they enjoyed a rank from which they could not be deposed.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Now human teeth, extracted, are reckoned among the most valuable ornaments in Mardi.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville