So much conversation as that indulged in by these peasants of the Rhone delta would seem sufficient to produce solutions for all the problems of the wine industry, as well as those of rural populations in general.
— from France by Gordon Home

The translation is made from the third edition of the original, recently published in Germany, with slight additions to the text, and large additions to the notes, by Dr. Ludwig Geiger , of Berlin.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Again, the transfer of real property is governed by the law of the place where the real property is situated, whereas the transfer of personal property is governed by the law of the domicile of the owner.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

As a matter of fact the ordinance remained practically in great part a dead letter.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

The only real problem is getting around those armor-sided Detroit mastodons that can't decide which end is the front.
— from A Touch of E Flat by Joe Gibson

The real income of Great Britain, capitalised at sixteen and a half years' purchase, would amount to only £1,447,000,000, and, if taxed at the same rate as in New York, would yield, instead of £19,000,000 only, £11,500,000, which, as it happens, is three millions less than it actually pays , as may be plainly seen from the undernoted statement:— DIRECT AND LOCAL TAXATION OF REAL PROPERTY IN GREAT BRITAIN.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 by Various

The embers lived, and the division into parties of the people of the United States, consequent upon the disruption of the Federal and Republican parties, and the candidacy of Mr. Crawford for the Presidency, caused a division of the old Republican party in Georgia.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

The only real pleasure I get out of my tools is at night when I am home.
— from Children of Men by Bruno Lessing

There the spirit of the old republic prevailed; in Gaul the freer and gentler view of Caesar.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen