He appeared to have a very open temper—certainly a very cheerful and lively one; she could observe nothing wrong in his notions, a great deal decidedly right; he spoke of his uncle with warm regard, was fond of talking of him—said he would be the best man in the world if he were left to himself; and though there was no being attached to the aunt, he acknowledged her kindness with gratitude, and seemed to mean always to speak of her with respect.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The rest all arriv'd to years of discretion, and afforded us considerable comfort, as they prov'd to be in a good degree dutiful children.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Each people looked on the coming struggle as that which would be to a great degree decisive; as, in case of victory, the next step would be the siege of Constantinople by the Greeks.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For though, before the late recoinage, the gold coin was a good deal defaced too, it was less so than the silver.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He was pursued to his capital, which was invested, besieged, and gallantly defended during six months.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Wertpapiere active securities Gefriergut frozen cargo Gefrierkost frozen food gefunden found gegeben given gegebenenfalls as the case may be gegebenenfalls if need be gegebenenfalls where appropriate gegebenenfalls where necessary gegebenenfalls where required gegebenenfalls; wo zutreffend where applicable Gegebenheiten; Daten data gegen contra gegen Akzeptierung against acceptance gegen alle Risiken against all risks gegen alle Verantwortlichkeiten against all responsibilities gegen alle Verpflichtungen against all obligations gegen Aushändigung von on delivery of gegen bar for ready money gegen bar verkaufen sell for cash gegen bar verkaufen sell for ready money gegen Bestätigung aushändigen to deliver by hand against acknowledgement gegen Bestellung erhältlich obtainable on order gegen die Gefahr des Unt
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In 1833, Marsay, president of the ministerial chamber, while explaining the mysteries of the affair to the Princesse de Cadignan, paid this tribute to Fouche: "A genius dark, deep and extraordinary, little understood but certainly the peer of Philip II., Tiberius or Borgia."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Slumbering just now in a short-lived sleep such a ghastly dream did I see—may some god forbid its fulfilment and never mayst thou win for thyself bitter care on thy sons' account.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

"But if people did as you want to do, there'd be a general domestic disintegration.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

maka Sultan Iskandar ber-sabda “chinta-ku deri-pada itu-lah yang dunia ini tiada baniak dan karana suatu ka-raja-an dunia ini yang tiada ber-apa ada-nia aku menyusah-kan diri-ku dan sagala orang yang lain maka deri-pada pekarja-an yang sia-sia ini-lah aku jua ber-chinta” maka sembah Hakim itu “Benar-lah bichara Sultan itu karana apa garangan dunia dan ber-apa dunia ini bahwa Sultan menyusah-kan diri-nia karana ka-raja-an itu yang sia-sia tetapi ka-raja-an dunia ini 138 ada suatu tanda deri-pada maha besar ka-raja-an akhirat itu yang tiada ber-ka-sudah-an ada-nia dan yang Sultan dapat ber-uleh deri-pada pe-karja-an ka-raja-an dunia ini dengan sa-sunggoh-nia sapaya Sultan men-dapat ka-raja-an akhirat itu yang sagala yang tiada buleh di-kira-kira-i ka-besar-an-nia itu” maka suka-lah Sultan Iskandar deri-pada kata-nia dan bichara-nia yang baik itu.
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

It was an anxious time, for a great deal depended on getting the stock in where the faithful drovers could guard it, until such time as the danger of a bold raid was past.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys on the Wyoming Trail Or, A Mystery of the Prairie Stampede by Frank Fowler

As in the case of vacuum drying, a great deal depends upon the preliminary treatment of the rubber.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

‘Thank you, I don’t want anything; I am going down directly.’
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Mortier hastened his flight; but as he was retiring, some greedy Cossacks and miserable-looking Muscovites, allured probably by the prospect of pillage, approached: they listened, and, imboldened by the apparent quiet which [Pg 240] pervaded the fortress, they ventured to penetrate into it: they ascended; and their greedy hands were already stretched forth to lay hold on their plunder, when in an instant they were all hurled into the air with the buildings they had come to pillage, and with thirty thousand stand of arms that had been left in them; and soon their mangled limbs, mingled with fragments of walls and shattered weapons, thrown to a great distance, descended in a horrible shower.
— from The Two Great Retreats of History by George Grote

However, since I could not argue her out of it, we leaped together about a quarter of a mile to the right, while Bill and Gerdi disappeared down the hillside among the trees.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

But he had waited, had again grown deeply deferential, swerving immediately to further vividly colored pictures of life as it might be, of power and pomp, of a secure position from which a man and a woman might direct policies of state, shaping the lives of other men and women.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

The prattle of little children and the voice of maternal love make sweet music in its doleful streets, and glorious devotion dignifies and illumines the poorest homes.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes