Such was the result to which Miss La Creevy’s ruminations and observations led her, when the cottage had been, as she emphatically said, ‘thoroughly got to rights, from the chimney-pots to the street-door scraper,’ and the busy little woman had at length a moment’s time to think about its inmates.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Pyrate also took among these Islands, a Ship belonging to Liverpool, Scot Commander; two Portuguese Sloops bound for Brasil ; a small English Sloop trading there, James Pease Master, bound to Sancta Crux , and three Sloops from St. Thomas bound to Curaso , the Masters Names were Lilly, Staples and Simpkins , all which they plundered, and then let go about their Business, except one Sloop which they fitted up for the following Purpose.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

You then served Louis XVIII., and you did not show any favor—it was your duty; today you serve Napoleon, and you ought to protect him—it is equally your duty; I come, therefore, to ask what has become of him?” Villefort by a strong effort sought to control himself.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

To-morrow you shall sue to me, through him , for its confirmation, else no duke, but a simple earl, shalt thou remain.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Another one, who had his throat pierced through, And nose cut off close underneath the brows, And had no longer but a single ear, Staying to look in wonder with the others, Before the others did his gullet open, Which outwardly was red in every part, And said: "O thou, whom guilt doth not condemn, And whom I once saw up in Latian land, Unless too great similitude deceive me, Call to remembrance Pier da Medicina, If e'er thou see again the lovely plain That from Vercelli slopes to Marcabo, And make it known to the best two of Fano, To Messer Guido and Angiolello likewise, That if foreseeing here be not in vain, Cast over from their vessel shall they be, And drowned near unto the Cattolica, By the betrayal of a tyrant fell. Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca Neptune ne'er yet beheld so great a crime, Neither of pirates nor Argolic people.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

Operaciones mercantiles, business ( mercantile ) operations; compra y venta, compraventa, buying and selling; especulación, speculative transactions; movimiento mercantil, business; corretaje, brokerage; negocio, deal, dealings, business .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

With bent back and staring eyes, shaking the same finger in warning which his subconscious self was trying to put on his lips, he endeavoured to attract X's attention from behind Madame Brot's broad back.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

And even if men should come to you as envoys, either for peace or for other purposes, they may be slain by any single enemy; so that you will be debarred from all public communications whatever.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

But a short examination served to show that, in the first place, the papers were evidently considered very valuable by the owner; and, in the second place, that they were of no earthly value to any one else.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

As for the white horse, she saw it as plainly, with that woman on its back, as she ever saw the sun at mid-day."
— from Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

A letter written at the time to Lord Shrewsbury by Lord Burghley, and still extant, shows that nothing of moment could be got out of Campion.
— from Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Imogen Guiney

Buying and selling, especially selling, that's where you get ahead.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If the king of Persia was informed that Timagoras had been put to death by his countrymen on returning to Athens,—and if he sent down (κατέπεμψεν) a fresh rescript about Amphipolis,—this information can only have been communicated, and the new rescript only obtained, by a second embassy sent to him from Athens.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

She was in a terrible condition; but I feel assured that there was not a single European but felt greatly concerned in her behalf; and some even shed tears of pity when they heard the tale of woe that she related.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd