Barter.— N. barter, exchange, scorse|, truck system; interchange &c. 148.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Indeed, what advantage can be expected from the system of central lines, if the parts of the army which have been weakened in order to strike decisive blows elsewhere, shall themselves seek a disastrous contest, instead of being contented with being bodies of observation?
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

She was not adored, like Margaret; she was not looked up to and respected, as was the Honorable Edith Gore; she was nobody's pet, as the little Ladies Blanche and Rose Amberley had been ever since they set foot in the school; but she was everybody's friend and comrade, the recipient of everybody's confidences, the sharer in everybody's joys or woes.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Lu. 14.27; to bear as a burden, endure, suffer; to sustain, Ro. 11.18; to bear with, tolerate; to sustain mentally, comprehend, Jno. 16.12.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

These Instances 1 were very noble and great, and the Reflections of those Sublime Spirits had made Death to them what it is really intended to be by the Author of Nature, a Relief from a various Being ever subject to Sorrows and Difficulties.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A strange beautiful excitement seemed to stream from the house in quivering ripples.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"And yet as sensible men, if we call in allies and court danger, it should be in order to enrich our different countries with new acquisitions, and not to ruin what they possess already; and we should understand that the intestine discords which are so fatal to communities generally, will be equally so to Sicily, if we, its inhabitants, absorbed in our local quarrels, neglect the common enemy.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I little suspected it; though I used, till this sad night, always to look into that closet and another in the room, and under the bed, ever since the summer-house trick; but never found any thing; and so I did not do it then, being fully resolved to be angry with Mrs. Jervis for what had happened in the day, and so thought of nothing else.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Lucy Stone when appealed to with the intimation that she was losing interest in the work, replied: "Now that I occupy a legal position in which I can not even draw in my own name the money I have earned or give a valid receipt for it when it is drawn or make any contract, but am rated with fools, minors and madmen, and can not sign a legal document without being examined separately to see if it is by my own free will, and even the right to my own name questioned, do you think that, in the grip of such pincers, I am likely to grow remiss?...
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

If Mrs. O'Mara could be believed, Eliza said that she could offer Nora Glynn more money than she was earning in Garranard.
— from The Lake by George Moore

Now what was the broken Ettrick stanza that Scott omitted in his published Otterburne (1806)?
— from Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang

There ought to be enough so that something can be found after your estate is settled.”
— from The Best Policy by Elliott Flower

But even supposing that she were a boy, with the inheritance still ours, do you think I would mate her so unworthily?
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

And if you're sensible you'll bring your daughter back early so that she may have a little rest."
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

They said at first that none but men could go to the grave, but Ellen said that she must go.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

I believe that, without proposing to ourselves a too ideal and, as it were, an unattainable type of perfection, we can effect much by earnestly striving to strengthen our will.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

For these and other reasons, the Minister of the Interior reported "that it was essential that the Indian title to all the p.144 territory in the vicinity of the lake should be extinguished so that settlers and traders might have undisturbed access to its waters, shores, islands, inlets and tributary streams."
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

His blue eyes seemed to say that “Love had passed that way,” so mournful were they; revealing memories about which he kept such utter silence that his old friends never detected even an allusion to his past life, nor a single exclamation drawn forth by similarity of circumstances.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac