At this time our project is to take another and a longer journey certainly, but we shall not be in straits for provisions.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

However, should he desire to own a compass, he will find no difficulty in securing one at any local jeweler's.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

hings: “My Lord St. John, go you to my private cabinet in the palace—for none knoweth the place better than you—and, close down to the floor, in the left corner remotest from the door that opens from the ante-chamber, you shall find in the wall a brazen nail-head; press upon it and a little jewel-closet will fly open which not even you do know of—no, nor any soul else in all the world but me and the trusty artisan that did contrive it for me.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Adv. newly &c. adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day; latterly, of late. not long ago, a short time ago.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The land is hundreds of leagues away, and locked Japan the nearest.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It is rather horrid of me, as he has sent me my portrait in the most wonderful frame, specially designed by himself, and, though I am a little jealous of the picture for being a whole month younger than I am, I must admit that I delight in it.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Day and night she brooded over them with tireless devotion and anxiety, leaving John to the tender mercies of the help, for an Irish lady now presided over the kitchen department.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited, but not adorned; she looked patient, yet sad.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In such cases, where foreigners were concerned on either side, it would be impossible for the federal judicatories to do justice without an equitable as well as a legal jurisdiction.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

We and our candidate are in favor of making Presidential elections and the legislation of the country distinct matters; so that the people can elect whom they please, and afterward legislate just as they please, without any hinderance, save only so much as may guard against infractions of the Constitution, undue haste, and want of consideration.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

While I was away, Ransom’s Brigade was in the battle of Ream’s Station on Weldon railroad, in August, and Louis Justice and Migamon Haynes were killed.
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

She wore a flame-coloured evening dress—' Tout feu ' as a ladies' journal would describe it—and a cloak of smoke colour which fell from one shoulder and double draped the other.
— from Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

Even an authority like Justin Winsor leaves the impression that Virginia cared little for the frontier, and that all honor is due to the Scotch-Irish.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

“It isn't all a lie, Jonathan.”
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

The Chief Druid of Tara, decked out in golden ear-clasps and his torque of heavy gold, is shown us as a "leaping juggler" as he tosses swords and balls in the air, "and like the buzzing of bees on a beautiful day is the motion of each passing the other."
— from Stonehenge, Today and Yesterday by Frank Stevens

Such a consideration gives present ease and comfort under the contempt and reproaches incident to the true followers of Christ, and accustoms them to a conformity to the image of Christ (Rom. 8:29): which as it is one of the greatest honors our Master bestows on his disciples; so it is by the world abhorred and loathed, just as a healing medicine is by a distempered and delicate palate.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

The doctor then said something to the same effect, and at last Jack was talked over to allow some of his fowl to be killed at once, and dried and salted like the other birds.
— from Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

And at last Jed Winslow drifted into the conversation.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln