It was opened by a very clean old woman, with a slow palsied shake of the head.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But how small soever the proportion which the circulating money may bear to the whole value of the annual produce, as but a part, and frequently but a small part, of that produce, is ever destined for the maintenance of industry, it must always bear a very considerable proportion to that part.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Its position is still marked by a village called Bolgari, where ruins of Mahomedan character remain, and where coins and inscriptions have been found.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Such regulations would in general be no material impediment to obtaining the article, but a very considerable one to making an improper use of it without detection.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

AL peto dughan AL corpo tiam Soto li braci Jlot AL bracio botchen AL gomedo ſico AL polſo molanghai ALa mano camat A la palma de la man palan AL dito dudlo Ala ongia coco AL Lombelico puſut AL membro vtin Ali teſticoli boto [ 190 ] Ala natura de le donne billat AL vzar cõ loro Jiam Ale cullate ſamput Ala coſsa paha AL ginochio tuhud.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

“The author must be a very clever person.” [ 94 ] Upon reaching the top of the stairway, he was cordially received by the master of the house, Don Filipo Lino, and his young wife, Doña Teodora Viña.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But suppose you understand that this coroner’s jury is going to turn out to be a vigilance committee in disguise, who will hear testimony for an hour and then hang the murderer on the spot?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

A few of the most refractory tenants disappeared with them, but a very considerable proportion stayed, conforming readily to the new rules, and are there yet.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Thence down to see some good plank in the river with Sir W. Batten and back again, it being a very cold day and a cold wind.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In the same year Arago found that iron filings were attracted by a voltaic charged wire; and Arago and Davy that a piece of soft iron surrounded spirally by a wire through which such a current was passed would become magnetic, attract to it other metals while in that condition, immediately drop them the instant the current ceased, and that such current would permanently magnetise a steel bar.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

Several persons having been induced through curiosity to try this action, the result, besides a violent commotion of the whole substance of the brain against the skull, was a state of watchfulness which continued several days running, and which I experienced myself as well as others.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini

None but a very coward could hesitate to stake his all on the issue.
— from The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Complete by George Meredith

After some weeks of this—Tiffany and others, and our own excursions—our room became a veritable curio-shop, and our curios were so overlaid with spring dust which the [Pg 205] "boys" had failed to remove that we called in a packer one day, had everything boxed, and resolved to buy nothing more.
— from Peking Dust by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

These bridges are very common in Thibet, and are very convenient for crossing torrents and precipices; but one must be accustomed to them.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

For example, the distance of the moon from the earth was determined by a very circuitous process.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

The big view-point, the ability to learn from observation as well as from experience, will develop in you broad and varied conceptions of other men.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

Made by Audio Visual Center.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Yet I can feel that they must have been paragons of good-breeding, and that what I believed to be a very cool self-sufficiency, was in reality the very latest London version of good manners.’ ‘Oh, you did not like that charming carelessness of Englishmen that goes where it likes and when it likes, that does not wait to be answered when it questions, and only insists on one thing, which is—“not to be bored.”
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever