The third principle of Socialist economics is that the value of things produced for sale is, under normal conditions, determined by the amount of labor socially necessary, on an average, for their production.
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

The Arabians fixed the quantity at twelve glasses a man; but the size of the glass was, unfortunately, not clearly defined by the historians.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

And Further I desire yowe of yo ur good Answere in this behalf the morowe Folowing yo ur next Courte Day by yowe to be holden at yo ur halle Endd.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Life was to us no cloudless day, Blossom and blight still marked our way;
— from Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney

Matches between the Universities were propounded annually by one or other club from 1839, but time and place could not always be agreed upon, nor could ‘dons’ be always persuaded to allow men to row in such races.
— from Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate