The presents which they make him upon such occasions constitute the whole ordinary revenue, the whole of the emoluments which, except, perhaps, upon some very extraordinary emergencies, he derives from his dominion over them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The want of ready money was the practical necessity of Sir Percival's existence, and his lawyer's note on the clause in the settlement was nothing but the frankly selfish expression of it.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

She had arrived at Casterbridge as a Bath lady, and there were obvious reasons why Jersey should drop out of her life.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

These were our regular social resources; but of course there were chance visits from "neighbors" of only five or six leagues distance.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Lotty was delighted at more love being introduced into San Salvatore, even if it were only one-sided, and said that when once Rose's husband was there she didn't suppose, now that Mrs. Fisher too had at last come unglued—Rose protested at the expression, and Lotty retorted that it was in Keats—there would be another place in the world more swarming with happiness than San Salvatore.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

In the essay on the principle of sufficient reason, the will, or rather the subject of willing, is treated as a special class of ideas or objects.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He wanted to keep the tree without ornaments, realize fully the direction and momentum of this new start.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Whatever could not be easily transported, they consumed with fire, that Chosroes might feel the anguish of those wounds which he had so often inflicted on the provinces of the empire: and justice might allow the excuse, if the desolation had been confined to the works of regal luxury, if national hatred, military license, and religious zeal, had not wasted with equal rage the habitations and the temples of the guiltless subject.
— 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

While slaves were scourged mercilessly, and in countless cases inhumanly treated in other respects, still the white owner rarely permitted his anger to go so far as to take a life, which would entail upon him a loss of several hundred dollars.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Let no Paris Municipality, no Sect or Party of this hue or that, resist the will of Robespierre and Salut.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It was already growing light, and they could see where they stepped, but, you know, it is hard to walk over rough places on two tiptoes, so you can imagine what it must be on six.
— from Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

a third, that want of rain forbids their growth; a fourth, that the agency of water has produced the effect; and lastly, a learned professor at the last meeting of the Scientific Convention put forth his theory, which was, that the real cause of the absence of trees from the prairies is the mechanical condition of the soil, which is, he thinks, too fine,—a coarse, rocky soil being, in his estimation, a necessary condition of the growth of trees.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In the rising against the Jews at the coronation FISHERGATE POSTERN FROM THE WALLS of Richard I, Benedict of York was fatally injured.
— from York by George Benson

I try to think well of red-headed people on account of Nancy, but I can't say I admire them.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

M. Olier’s own conversion was due to her predictions and timely warnings, and through his vocation her influence was greatly spread in the work of reforming the ecclesiastical seminaries of France.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

The branches are less twisted and emerge at sharper angles than do those of the white oak. Range: It grows all over Eastern North America and reaches north farther than any of the other oaks.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

Suddenly, turning a sharp bend about the wall of rock that flanked the channel, a wind of noise struck us.
— from The River and I by John G. Neihardt

In the afternoon they strolled slowly back until they came to the brow of the hill that rises to the west of Rocheville.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Various

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XIX Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 by Robert Louis Stevenson

All Spain, except its north-western corner, and something like half of Gaul--namely, that region which is contained between the Pyrenees and the Loire, owns the sway of the young king, whose capital city is Toulouse, and who, though a stranger in blood, - Page 184 bears the name of the great Visigoth who first battered a breach in the walls of Rome, the mighty Alaric.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin