He then let it down into the well, and persuaded the Hebrews that God had hearkened to his prayers, and had promised to render the water such as they desired it to be, in case they would be subservient to him in what he should enjoin them to do, and this not after a remiss or negligent manner.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I believe we were now going at a rate of not less than a hundred miles an hour.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

After which he opened the grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"He was a good-hearted tailor, at any rate," observed Nick Chopper.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Stems in -lo- , -ro- , -no- , and -lā- , -rā- , -nā- , commonly drop the stem vowel and assimilate -r- or -n- to -l- : thus: -el-lo- , -el-lā- ( 111, b ; 166, 6, 7 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Considering the subject only as a reader of newspapers, cases recurred to my memory, both in London and in Paris, of foreigners found stabbed in the streets, whose assassins could never be traced—of bodies and parts of bodies thrown into the Thames and the Seine, by hands that could never be discovered—of deaths by secret violence which could only be accounted for in one way.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that everything has its price,—and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price,—is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all the action and reaction of nature.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adda (ancient Addua ), a river of North Italy, which, descending from the Rhætian Alps, falls into Lake Como, and leaving this joins the Po, after a course of about 170 miles.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

For when a new insect first arrived on the island, the tendency of natural selection to enlarge or to reduce the wings, would depend on whether a greater number of individuals were saved by successfully battling with the winds, or by giving up the attempt and rarely or never flying.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The artist, who had surveyed her as he would an exquisite production of art, first rising to take his leave, said—“I have a favor to urge, madam, it is a very great one; I am painting a series of portraits, will you permit me to take yours as a representation of Noonday?”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

Such disputes as to precedence and etiquette were to be expected in a proud and ceremonious age among representatives of numerous States, especially when many of them were of doubtful rank.
— from Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League Of Nations (1919) in connection with International Psychology and Revolutions by Arthur MacDonald

Since 1981 economic performance has declined compared with the boom period of 1976-81, when real GDP grew at an average annual rate of nearly 11%.
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Shrewsbury and Welshpool and Aberystwith "Royal Oak," "Nettle," "Engineer." Notes.
— from An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving by Edward Corbett

The effect of this fire on the advancing column was terrible, but it continued on till it reached the edge of the timber where Sill's right lay, when my infantry opened at a range of not over fifty yards.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

There would be no danger of the development of a ruling class as a result of natural inequalities.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

I believe some of them are officers dressed in civilians' clothes, and a Russian officer never does that unless he has some object.
— from Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton

She visited France and England about 1760-61, and was so good a player that she was looked upon almost as a rival of Nardini.
— from Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

There was at any rate one “nigger” of which the above held not good.
— from A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

Some think he was accused of a secret leaning towards Mustapha, or at any rate of negligence in not detecting the conspiracy of the pretender and Bajazet till it was almost too late.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq