Sources

Examples

• The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Supplies were growing scarce in Richmond, and the sources from which to draw them were in our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Or if it be possible to imagine, that such errors are the sources of all immorality? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Dan--Bashan--Lake Huleh --the Sources of Jordan--the Sea of Galilee. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The sources of this general or public revenue, I shall endeavour to explain in the following chapter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The story of the Creation and the Flood, much of the story of Moses, much of Samson, were probably incorporated from Babylonian sources. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The blight, I believed, was chiefly external: I still felt life at life's sources. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• According to him there are two sources of knowledge, reason and revelation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the amount of potash thus obtained is far too limited to supply the needs of agriculture; and to-day the main sources of potash are the vast deposits of potassium salts found in Prussia. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Besides, he was obliged to raise additional large sums of money from other sources for this purpose. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Had they faced the human sources of their problem, had they tried to think of the social evil as an answer to a human need, their researches would have been different, their remedies fruitful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Once on the south side of the James River, I can cut off all sources of supply to the enemy except what is furnished by the canal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• An apparatus for generating coal gas on a small scale for private establishments, remote from sources of ordinary supply, is represented in the accompanying woodcut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Perdita had permitted us to take Clara back with us to Windsor; and she and my two lovely infants were perpetual sources of interest and amusement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The whaling fleets, long after gas came into use, were one of the greatest sources of our national wealth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We get our light upon that life from various sources. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The contributions to the art and the improvements in the manufacture of talking machines and talking-machine records from sources outside of the United States have been very unimportant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Land and capital stock are the two original sources of all revenue, both private and public. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The further we get away from this direct, first-hand source of knowledge, the more numerous the sources of error, and the vaguer the resulting idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ordinary revolutions of war and government easily dry up the sources of that wealth which arises from commerce only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But she forgot to be afraid, she who had such great sources of fear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The rumor was confirmed there, also, from other sources. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His real power to generalize is shown in connection with his sp ecialty, in his treatment of the sources of building-material, rather than in his consideration of the origin of matter. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Near the sources of the Arveiron we performed the rites for, four only excepted, the last of the species. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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