She is the Czarina Catherine , and she sail from Doolittle’s Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

It is upon this account that, in the chapter in which I treat of productive and unproductive labour, I have classed artificers, manufacturers, and merchants among the productive labourers, and menial servants among the barren or unproductive.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Robbery and gift are the most naïve forms of transfer of possession, and under primitive conditions change of possession seldom takes place without a struggle.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, after their civilisation and conversion, was of a different and softer character; but in the circumstances of Ulrica, she may be not unnaturally supposed to return to the wild strains which animated her forefathers during the time of Paganism and untamed ferocity.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

At the sound of the holy trumpet, the Moslems of Egypt, Syria, Arabia, and the Oriental provinces, assembled under the servant of the prophet: 68 his camp was pitched and removed within a few miles of Acre; and he labored, night and day, for the relief of his brethren and the annoyance of the Franks.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This interval of repose had been solicited, and was diligently improved, by the ambition of the emperor: his African conquests were the first fruits of the Persian treaty; and the avarice of Chosroes was soothed by a large portion of the spoils of Carthage, which his ambassadors required in a tone of pleasantry and under the color of friendship.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In times of panic and unusual hardships there were seldom more than three hundred.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The principles which the plenipotentiary signatories of the Peace Treaty of Paris agreed upon in a proclamation of April 16th, 1856, are as follows:— 1.
— from Pax mundi A concise account of the progress of the movement for peace by means of arbitration, neutralization, international law and disarmament by K. P. (Klas Pontus) Arnoldson

if, after so many lessons from proficients in the art, who drive the business by wholesale , they should not occasionally copy their betters, fall into the fashion , and try their hand in a small way, at a practice which is the only permanent and universal business carried on around them!
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

The oppressions practiced, and unjust discriminations [Pg 14] made by railroad companies in the transportation, shipping, and storage of freights.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

To the best of my recollection, the Minnesingers and all the old poets always use the sun as masculine; and, since Luther's time, the poets feel the awkwardness of the classical gender affixed to the sun so much, that they more commonly introduce Phoebus or some other synonyme instead.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have not only awakened interest in the minds of the students, in the matter of stock-raising, but also in the minds of some of the old planters about us.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 2, February, 1882 by Various

One of the party who had traveled extensively in the Orient previously, advised us to forget our trade commercial mission long enough to see Nikko and then we could afford to overlook all the other temples.
— from The Log of the Empire State by Geneve L. A. Shaffer

The principle of single-ear sowing, with a view to obtain pure and uniform strains without further selection, has, until a few years ago, been almost entirely lost sight of.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

A new romance differing from the others plays an unexpected part in the life of one of the girls.
— from The Red Cross Girls in Belgium by Margaret Vandercook

The age of the rise of nations was also that of professional armies under the direction of a despot, and of wars for the spoliation of still unorganised peoples, like the Germans and the Italians.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl