The latter is represented as a partisan of Genoa, favouring the views of the oppressors of his country by the most treasonable means.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Beyond rose the grey, grim wall seemingly of endless height, and losing itself right and left in the angles of bastion and counterscarp.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

However, since you think otherwise, we will let it rest at that.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

His language may be limited in range and variety, but it is terse, clear, simple, and popular.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

"Well," he said at last, in rather a cold, sardonic tone, "you've had three years at these things,–you must be pretty strong in 'em.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

2266 On the river Ladon: its ruins are seen near the modern Vanena.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Had I been giving Margaret a lesson in rebellion, and preparing her Page 277
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

"Well, you act like it, rowing around over my looks.
— from Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

[35] ' The long careering of an earthquake. '—It is remarkable, and was much noticed at the time by some German philosophers, that the earthquake which laid Lisbon in ruins about ninety-five years ago, could be as regularly traced through all its stages for some days previous to its grand finale , as any thief by a Bow Street officer.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Thomas De Quincey

The latter is regarded as the greater, and is esteemed by most critics as the noblest of all compositions in the oratorio form.
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

When the lamp is required a small handle is turned, and is instantly lighted; the reverse motion cuts off the current.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Cuthbert turned the lock, raised the ponderous lid, and let it rest against the wall behind, then gazed upon the contents.
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

You have not lost in Rome a single charm of the boulevardes.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan