It was probably not so much from any regard to the interest of America, as from a jealousy of this interference, that those important commodities have not only been kept out of the enumeration, but that the importation into Great Britain of all grain, except rice, and of all salt provisions, has, in the ordinary state of the law, been prohibited.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

'A substantial man,' says he, 'with pretty near sixty years' experience o' timber: it 'ud be all very well for Adam Bede to act under him, but it isn't to be supposed the squire 'ud appoint a young fellow like Adam, when there's his elders and betters at hand!'
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Wà pay nakapildi sa kampiyun, No one has beaten the champion yet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She had never yet known a personage; there had been no personages, in this sense, in her life; there were probably none such at all in her native land.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Such a part of duration as this, wherein we perceive no succession, is that which we call an INSTANT, and is that which takes up the time of only one idea in our minds, without the succession of another; wherein, therefore, we perceive no succession at all.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, Strike in their numb’d and mortified bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; And with this horrible object, from low farms, Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills, Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers, Enforce their charity.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Old Tray, with philosophic nose, Snuffs carefully, and grows So certain, that he cries, 'The hare is here; bow wow!'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Full, thick beards, as in the West, were practically never seen, even on the aged.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Other Jails being all crowded with prisoners, new space is wanted here:
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In those days Oswald the Gentle was Prior of Kilgrimol, and he beheld the inroad of the sea; and afterwards he lived through the suffering and sorrow of the great plague of which people now speak as the Black Death.
— from A Child's Book of Saints by William Canton

Without puttin' no stain on your character, it's right to say you ain't sedentary enough, an' that you-all is a heap too soon besides.
— from Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

On various occasions when attacks of privateers were to be repelled weapons were issued and used by the slaves in loyal defense of the vessel.[35] Systematic villainy in the handling of the human cargo was perhaps not so characteristic in this trade as in the transport of poverty-stricken white emigrants.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

By his wise and just dealings with the Indians, [369] he gained their important confidence and friendship: he sent commissioners to treat with them for the sale of their lands, and in the year 1682 met the assembled chiefs near the spot where Philadelphia now stands.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

The yearling would have won his bet; there was probably no sadder man in West Point than Mark Mallory just then, even though he did not choose to let his enemies know it.
— from A Cadet's Honor: Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair

Beside the Tortoise, there are many creatures which possess natural shears, such as the Locust, whose ravages are only too notorious.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

No, I swear by the infernal deities who dwell with Pluto, never shall this be, that I will give up my children to be insulted by my enemies.
— from The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

We perceive no smell, unless the effluvia of the smelling body enter into the nostrils.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown