His observation that the Indian commodities were sold at Rome at a hundred times their original price, may give us some notion of the produce of the customs, since that original price amounted to more than eight hundred thousand pounds.
— 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

And thus, without supposing any private dominion, and property in Adam, over all the world, exclusive of all other men, which can no way be proved, nor any one's property be made out from it; but supposing the world given, as it was, to the children of men in common, we see how labour could make men distinct titles to several parcels of it, for their private uses; wherein there could be no doubt of right, no room for quarrel.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The river abreast of the town is crowded with steamboats, lying in two or three tiers .']}
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In fact, I was already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Its cultivation was started there about 1715, but the trees were largely permitted to fall into a wild natural state, and little attention was given to them or to the handling of the crop.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I could wish, Sir, you could make them understand, that it is a kind of acting to go in Masquerade, and a Man should be able to say or do things proper for the Dress in which he appears.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

as thou art wise declared, and many things to know, how that holm is called, where Surt and the Æsir will sword-liquor together mingle?
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

All these reflections bear merely upon the idea of a successive employment of forces, and not upon the conception of a reserve properly so called, which they, no doubt, come in contact with throughout, but which, as we shall see in the following chapter, is connected with some other considerations.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

What do you think?” Daily experience might have taught my wife that constantly talking of our expenses does not reduce them, but my wife refuses to learn by experience, and regularly every morning discusses our officer son, and tells me that bread, thank God, is cheaper, while sugar is a halfpenny dearer—with a tone and an air as though she were communicating interesting news.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

My station is down on the East Side, and I see so much tragedy and unhappiness that it has given me about all the real-life plays I could want, since I came to the police work.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball

Then, again, how is it no one saw him in the company of the swarthy foreigner he described?" "Two witnesses did see Mr. Morton in company with Skinner," argued Polly.
— from The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I may say, at this point, that Atwood had made his living by criminal means for many years, and the venture in counterfeiting was simply the latest of his many ways of gaining a livelihood.
— from The Sheridan Road Mystery by Paul Thorne

Were I an architect and designer of country homes I certainly would seek for inspiration in Shropshire; I know no other part of England where the houses look more like homes.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey

The pendulum is compensated with steel and aluminum, so that the rate of the clock may not be influenced by hot and cold weather. Was built in 1901 and is the only one I can find room for here.
— from Time and Its Measurement by James Arthur

On the 12th March, travelled in company with several people with a hearse going to a burial.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

However, admitting them to be true, the metal is charged with simply the "nervous fluid.
— from A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

Lady Estelle waved to and fro, in a meditative manner, her feather fan, as if considering what she could desire.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

Seven hundred and ten Jews have received the Iron Cross, which some have refused to wear because it is the emblem of the Christian faith.
— from Stories and Letters from the Trenches by Various

Sorrow at the death of loved ones is compatible with sanctification.
— from Adventures in the Land of Canaan by R. L. (Robert Lee) Berry