But there still remains a large group of laws which we may undertake to investigate.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Of his wife, Fulvia, when there was a swelling in one of her cheeks, he said that “she tempted the point of his style;” 917 nor did Antony think any the worse of him for the joke, but quite enjoyed it; and soon afterwards, when Antony was consul 918 , he even made him a large grant of land, which Cicero charges him with in his Philippics 919 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Allured by the bait that has been the ruin of so many of his class, the offer of a large grant of land, Captain N—— had been induced to form a settlement in this remote and untried township; laying out much, if not all, of his available means in building a log house, and clearing a large extent of barren and stony land.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

[ All lights go out, leaving a mysterious glow on Alice and the queens.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

Draghignazzo anco i volle dar di piglio giuso a le gambe; onde 'l decurio loro
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The sun freed itself slowly and lit glints of light among the silverware opposite in Walter Sexton’s window by which John Howard Parnell passed, unseeing.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

An order was immediately promulgated, that, on a stated day, the Gothic youth should assemble in the capital cities of their respective provinces; and, as a report was industriously circulated, that they were summoned to receive a liberal gift of lands and money, the pleasing hope allayed the fury of their resentment, and, perhaps, suspended the motions of the conspiracy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“The promise of a large grant of land, and the false statements we heard regarding it.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The rosy sky was paling, and already a little galaxy of lights afar off marked the village of Chagford, where it stood upon its own proper elevation under the Moor.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

Dis war, ma friend, is quick to end If battle stage is set For bol' Ted, on Armageddon Leading Guards of Lafayette!
— from By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus Mackay

But it is a more important fact that Burden, a Scotch-Irishman, obtained a large grant of land and settled it with hundreds of his race during the period from 1736 to 1743, and employed an agent to continue the work.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

They had come to Virginia in the days of Queen Elizabeth and received a large grant of land—" "Don't fancy I haven't heard that !"
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

As large grants of land may be obtained by tenants for merely nominal rents, or in consideration of their erecting stock-yards or farm-buildings in the course of a term of years, there is every inducement to men of this class to become settlers.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

By the way, he tumbled off his horse in the Park on Friday morning, and nearly knocked over a little girl of Lady Charlton's, who was out for the first time.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

Desmo´dium , a large genus of leguminous plants, sub-ord.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

A shrewd country attorney, 32 in a turned white neckcloth and rusty blacks, would just take one of these Agamemnons and Ajaxes quietly by his beautiful, strong arm, trot the unresisting statue down a little gallery of legal shams, and turn the poor fellow out at the other end, “naked, as from the earth he came.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

I am almost sure I did;" Christie answered eagerly; "when I said 'dead, dead, dead,' in that judicial manner, there came a little gleam of light into her eyes, as if she approved of the sentence.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore