Whilst the gems which are set in it are national property, the crown is usually remade for each successive sovereign.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Quoiqu'il en soit, le gros avantage de charger une version e-book sur son organisateur, c'est que dans un avenir très proche, avec l'UMTS, il sera relié à un réseau fiable en permanence.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

All these different pleasures and pains combine differently, and with almost infinite variation as circumstances vary, into utilitarian reasons for each of the claims in question; none of these reasons being absolute and conclusive, but each having its own weight, while liable to be outweighed by others.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

That it may be alienated by consent, in order to beget that commerce and intercourse, which is so BENEFICIAL to human society? And that all contracts and promises ought carefully to be fulfilled, in order to secure mutual trust and confidence, by which the general INTEREST of mankind is so much promoted? Examine the writers on the laws of nature; and you will always find, that, whatever principles they set out with, they are sure to terminate here at last, and to assign, as the ultimate reason for every rule which they establish, the convenience and necessities of mankind.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Let us refer, for example, to the last instance but one, in which the combination;48 occurs—not far from the end of the cipher.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I like your way of giving useful reasons for everything in order to make friends of the world.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake, For Doll is in.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All around the smaller, adjoining, partitioned place formerly made notable because of the vanishing rats and the strange voices, he had cages of mice, squirrels and rabbits, under rays from electrical, and other forms of vibration.
— from The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell

They usually require, for eligibility to the benefit, that the wife be not in ill health at the time the member is admitted to the union.
— from Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by James Boyd Kennedy

This tram was used regularly for eighteen years.
— from American Inventions and Inventors by William A. (William Augustus) Mowry

As night, however, was fast approaching, many of the mob insisted upon remaining for evening mass.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Algeria is running substantial trade surpluses and building up record foreign exchange reserves.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Upon returning from exile Burr tried to break his lease to Astor, but the lease was so astutely drawn that the courts decided in Astor's favor.
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

The Supreme Court, considering the elevated character of its judges, and that they reside in parts of the Union remote from each other, can never be liable to local excitements and local prejudices.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The exertions of every description of persons, of the man of letters, the patriot, the prince, as well as the Christian, each acting in his own sphere for his own interests, with the joint concurrence of all as in a common cause, were urgently required for extirpating abuses, of which all had reason to complain, and for effectuating a revolution, in the advantages of which all would participate.
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie