Hence the following general rule: A COMIC EFFECT IS ALWAYS OBTAINABLE BY
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Then with sweet talk the guests remained, And charmed each listener there.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

When I met them in the streets they did not seem like other people, but had, as a general rule, a cramped expression upon their faces which pained and depressed me.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The primary schools need no preliminary expense; the ultimate grade requires a considerable expenditure in advance.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

One of the first steps taken by the directors { 152} was to open offices in Winnipeg, and put two men with United States experience in charge—A. B. Stickney, later president of the Chicago Great Western, as general superintendent, and General Rosser as chief engineer.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

They had been prepared, many of them, for some odd development, but this perfectly normal, healthy interest in the affairs of the College was the last thing that his grave, romantic air could ever have led any one to expect.
— from The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole

On this, as we saw in the last chapter, Mr. Darwin strongly insists, confessing at the same time that the Geological record alone can establish such progress as a fact.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

At eleven or twelve years of age they are all able to maintain themselves without any assistance; both girls and boys are taught to make it, and some men when grown up follow no other employment; others, when out of work, find it a good resource, and can earn as much as the generality of day labourers.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

1860 RAVENNA GEOGRAPHER: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia et Guidonis Geographican.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

Hence his pieces are little adapted for general representation; and certainly, even the best translations of them never could succeed in this country.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various