Lydgate had not expected to see so quaint a group: knowing simply that Mr. Farebrother was a bachelor, he had thought of being ushered into a snuggery where the chief furniture would probably be books and collections of natural objects.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nantahala : A river and ridge of very steep mountains in Macon county, the name being a corruption of Nûñ′dăye′ʻlĭ, applied to a former settlement about the mouth of Briertown creek, the townhouse being on the west side of the river, about the present Jarretts.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"'Oh, this fair is nothing but a chaos of noise and beggars,' I thought in disillusionment.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It is a Proviso to the Poll Bill, that there shall be a Committee of nine persons that shall have the inspection upon oath, and power of giving others, of all the accounts of the money given and spent for this warr.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

It is ruled, as it were, by a course of nature.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

“The part of the island which produces these stones in greatest abundance seems to be, by a coincidence of native reports, the district about the upper waters of the Baluñgar (Batang Kayan).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But when those Jews who had fled with him understood that he yielded to those that invited him to come up, they came about him in a body, and cried out, "Nay, indeed, now may the laws of our forefathers, which God ordained himself, well groan to purpose; that God we mean who hath created the souls of the Jews of such a temper, that they despise death.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Up to the age of puberty children of both sexes have little to distinguish them to the eye, the same face and form, the same complexion and voice, everything is the same; girls are children and boys are children; one name is enough for creatures so closely resembling one another.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Causes should first be tried before a court of neighbours: if the decision is unsatisfactory, let them be referred to a higher court; or, if necessary, to a higher still, of which the decision shall be final.
— from Laws by Plato

[Pg 350] "From the 1st of January 1834, to the 1st of May 1835, Abraham Bell and Co. of New York have received from the working classes of Irish emigrants, that is, from common labourers, farm servants, chambermaids, waiters, &c. to remit to their friends and kindred in Ireland, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, in amount varying from five dollars upwards.
— from Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) by Tyrone Power

Now it seems to be a case of need when the suit of a poor man is being prejudiced.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For, in truth, he is not a Spaniard, but only so by descent, being a Creole of New Orleans—that cosmopolitan city par excellence —hence his philological acquirements.
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

O lord of men, he that like unto thee understands the nature of the soul and its environment coming by any calamity, ought not to despond.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

He can, for instance, by a concurrence of natural laws, bring a person, who is in the enjoyment of health at present, to the very borders of death, an hour or an instant hence; and he can, by a like means, suddenly restore the same or another individual to health, after he has been on the very verge of the grave.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

"'Nay, by his singing I can tell in a trice whether he be a canon or no,' says the robber-squire.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

It is recorded, in the Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly district, that “the water for the god’s bath at Ratnagiri is brought by a caste of non-Brāhmans known as Tirumanjana Pandārams, who fetch it every day from the Cauvery.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

His first wife was his cousin, Maria Barbara Bach, the youngest daughter of Johann Michael Bach, a composer of no common ability.
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

So the whole city was but a conglomeration of nests of worlds, woven together by a few needs and the day's work, worlds as yet undiscovered in every direction, huge tracts of peoples of all races leading strange and unassimilated lives.
— from The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim