Factories may close their doors, banks may fail, and credit be shaken, but so long as we may appeal to each other in the old terms of neighborliness and comradeship, nothing can seriously disturb our peace and prosperity.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

It was a necessity of her nature to love a human being, this or that one, not a crowd.
— from Demos by George Gissing

The first were such as had relation to those inferior Bodies, which, are plac'd in this World of Generation and Corruption, as Heat, which they impart to those of their own Nature, and Cold by accident, Illumination, Rarefaction, and Condensation, and all those other things, by which they influence these inferior Bodies, whereby they are dispos'd for the Reception of Spiritual Forms from the necessarily self-existent Agent .
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

His election to the executive chair being for two years, he was, according to the custom of the party regarding the tenure of this office, not a candidate for renomination.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

They all lie in the old town by the sea, the old town of narrow and crooked streets, in which it does not much matter which way you go; you are sure to come either to the castle or to one of the churches before very long.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

the revel of his laugh!— Half is sound of winds, and half Roar of ruddy blazes drawn Up the throats of chimneys wide, Circling which, from side to side, Faces—lit as by the Dawn, With her highest tintings on Tip of nose, and cheek, and chin— Smile at some old fairy-tale Of enchanted lovers, in Silken gown and coat of mail, With a retinue of elves Merry as their very selves, Trooping ever, hand in hand, Down the dales of Wonderland.
— from Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley

Pr o t o t o nánte, a chiefe-thunderer.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Every month the Ten elected three of their own number as chiefs, or Capi of the Council....
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

By thoroughly preparing the seed bed, fertilizing highly and giving the most careful attention, they are able to grow on one acre, during 30 to 50 days, enough plants to occupy ten acres and in the mean time on the other nine acres crops are maturing, being harvested and the fields being fitted to receive the rice when it is ready for transplanting, and in effect this interval of time is added to their growing season.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King