Ceci peut sembler une définition tournant un peu en rond ou vide de sens, mais je vous parie que, pour chaque société, les anthropologues sont capables de déterminer quel est le pourcentage de la société occupé au traitement de l'information en tant que produit de base.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

These unusual purchases excited attention; it was suspected that Perrier had some one concealed; nightly visits were more frequent.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Transcendental Deduction of the universally possible employment in experience of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding § 22
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Scriptorum ex omni serie numeroque tuorum, Utilitas primo est conspicienda loco: Gratia subsequitur; Sapientiaque atria pandit Ampla tibi, ingeniis solùm ineunda piis.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

The worst of tempests and the best of battles That e'er were brew'd from elements or gore, Besides the most sublime of—Heaven knows what else: An usurer could scarce expect much more— But my best canto, save one on astronomy, Will turn upon 'political economy.'
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I have seen thinkers, unbelievers, philosophers, exceedingly brave by daylight, tremble like women at the rustling of a leaf in the dark.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perhaps, however, this identity of names does nevertheless rest on a characteristic of the dream which is still unknown to us, perhaps even one of those characteristics which we are seeking.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Elsewhere a corner seemed to be reserved for the commoner kinds of lily; of a neat pink or white like rocket-flowers, washed clean like porcelain, with housewifely care; while, a little farther again, were others, pressed close together in a floating garden-bed, as though pansies had flown out of a garden like butterflies and were hovering with blue and burnished wings over the transparent shadowiness of this watery border; this skiey border also, for it set beneath the flowers a soil of a colour more precious, more moving than their own; and both in the afternoon, when it sparkled beneath the lilies in the kaleidoscope of a happiness silent, restless, and alert, and towards evening, when it was filled like a distant heaven with the roseate dreams of the setting sun, incessantly changing and ever remaining in harmony, about the more permanent colour of the flowers themselves, with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery—with a quiet suggestion of infinity; afternoon or evening, it seemed to have set them flowering in the heart of the sky.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The clear diplomatic horizon, the universal peace except in turbulent South America, and the successful negotiations in recent treaties foretold an era of insularity and full fruition of individuality.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

A man of the utmost probity, energetic, pre-eminent in his love of truth, thinking himself unable to bring help to them, certain that they would die, as all the evidence indicated, he decided to protect himself, thinking that he would incur no shame by saving himself for a opportune moment.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert

"Then up pulls E. G. W. and the buggy.
— from Mr. Scraggs by Henry Wallace Phillips

He was a clergyman of some literary ability; he was author of a small treatise upon political economy; during his first administration he sent Benjamin Anderson on an official expedition to the interior.
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

The text, I think, tells us plainly enough.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

Look how his words seem picked out on purpose to express with the utmost possible emphasis that all
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

In this effort he was at times severely criticized by that class of physicians—and they are by no means extinct—who think that medicine should be wrapped in mystery, and that the people should be kept in ignorance of themselves and of their own physical frailties, to the utmost possible extent.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys