It is in this manner that the mercantile system proposes to enrich the whole country, and to put money into all our pockets, by means of the balance of trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She had gone knowing that; this meant that it pleased her that Marius should die.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And I noticed the door, and there was nothing wrong with it then.’ “‘Oughtn’t you to mention this to Mr. Seegrave, Penelope?’ “‘I wouldn’t say a word to help Mr. Seegrave for anything that could be offered to me!’
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In the room there was a sound of confused talking the members of the Committee, Madier de Montjau, Jules Favre, and Carnot, withdrew, and sent word to me by Charamaule that they were going to No. 10, Rue des Moulins, to the house of the ex-Constituent Landrin, in the division of the 5th Legion, to deliberate more at their ease, and they begged me to join them.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

At length for intermission sake they led him Between the pillars; he his guide requested 1630 (For so from such as nearer stood we heard) As over-tir'd to let him lean a while With both his arms on those two massie Pillars That to the arched roof gave main support.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Ang táwung takam mukáun bísan unsa, A ravenous person will eat anything.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And if that illustration will not move you, here is another:—We are children now; we feel as children, and we understand as children; and when we are told that men and women do not play with toys, and that our companions will one day weary of the trivial sports and occupations that interest them and us so deeply now, we cannot help being saddened at the thoughts of such an alteration, because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

But though these discourses may be uneasy and ungrateful to them, I do not see why they should seem foolish or extravagant; indeed, if I should either propose such things as Plato has contrived in his ‘Commonwealth,’ or as the Utopians practise in theirs, though they might seem better, as certainly they are, yet they are so different from our establishment, which is founded on property (there being no such thing among them), that I could not expect that it would have any effect on them.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

When verse is employed, it is usual to convey the sense of the whole in a couplet, preceding the description of the syllables, thus:— 'Tis murmured in the last adieu, When looks are sad, and words are few.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

“One of the first and most indispensable laws, is not to reproach or even recall to the mind of recipients one’s kindnesses.
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

The sticks are put away into the basket, and the magic wand is produced for our next little experiment, that of putting a borrowed ring on to the middle of a stick that is held at both ends.
— from Indian Conjuring by L. H. (Lionel Hugh) Branson

The remains of the Roman road, leading thence by way of Salchat and Ezrak to the Persian Gulf, show that Bostra was, along with Petra and Palmyra, a medium of traffic from the East to the Mediterranean.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Holmes, in his admirable Life of Mozart, says:— “To exercise his pen in the grand contrapuntal style of church music was at all times agreeable to him; and he was now free from the local restrictions under which he had written his numerous masses at Salzburg, where neither the style, the length of the pieces, nor their instrumentation was left to his own discretion; hence, making due allowance for the effect of some few years in developing the composer’s genius, the great superiority of ‘Davidde Penitente,’ by which title this mass was in the sequel better known over all the earlier masses, as well for breadth of style as in true ecclesiastical solemnity.”
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

"About this age my elder brother believed it to be his duty to tell me the secrets of sex; I remember his talking to me, while I, bored and uninterested, thought of something else.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

I must be true to my subject, the days of the Forty-niners.
— from The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Daniel Knower

From a consideration of the facts here enumerated it would seem as if a considerable portion of Ireland had been invaded by a wave of heresy in the first half of the fourteenth century, and that this manifested itself under a twofold form—first, in a denial of the cardinal doctrines of the Church and a consequent revolt against her jurisdiction; and secondly, in the use of magical arts, incantations, charms, familiar spirits, et hoc genus omne .
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour