One might indeed go further and say that it implies a certain tolerance of one’s characters even though they be, in the conventional sense, knaves, products, as the case might be, of conditions or circumstance, which after all is the thing to be criticised and not the man.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

There was buried Saint John the Baptist between two prophets, Elisha and Abdon; but he was beheaded in the castle of Macharim beside the Dead Sea, and after he was translated of his disciples, and buried at Samaria.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The Senior and Junior Grand Wardens were originally appointed, like the Deputy, by the Grand Master, and are still so appointed in England; but in this country they are universally elected by the Grand Lodge.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

When, instead either of a certain portion of the produce of land, or of the price of a certain portion, a certain sum of money is to be paid in full compensation for all tax or tythe; the tax becomes, in this case, exactly of the same nature with the land tax of England.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

If there is no river in the neighbourhood, but if there can be a roadstead on one side, then, let the advances be made from the other side by means of walls or embankments, and let the enclosing harbour be thus formed.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

But in the cab he seemed hardly to have changed, still having the calm look so well remembered, still being upright and keen-eyed.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

If the countries are near, the difference will be smaller, and may sometimes be scarce perceptible; because in this case the transportation will be easy.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In a hunting country, there should be a bootjack and boothooks in the closet.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Holmes leaned back in the carriage, and the conversation ceased.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The fox answered, "I know a man who has been killing, and the salted meat is lying in a barrel in the cellar; we will get that."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The parapets of the palaces themselves were lighter and more fantastic, consisting of narrow lance-like spires of marble, set between the broader pinnacles, which were in such cases generally carved into the form of a fleur-de-lis: the French word gives the reader the best idea of the form, though he must remember that this use of the lily for the parapets has nothing 242 to do with France, but is the carrying out of the Byzantine system of floral ornamentation, which introduced the outline of the lily everywhere; so that I have found it convenient to call its most beautiful capitals, the lily capitals of St. Mark’s.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

But if the central popular meaning does not correspond with the scientific conception to be expressed, it may be better to invent a new term.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

2. ELIZABETH, born at Madrid, 13th July 1649; died a few days afterwards, and was buried in the Chapel of the French Hospital at Madrid.
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe

Until that time, place the boy in the cave.”
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

It is this ' Crisis ' that has so generally ' ROUSED ' at this moment the ' nations throughout the Earth ' that no equal interest has ever before been excited by Man ; unless it be in that caused by the ' Pagan-Temple in Rome ,' which is recorded by the elder Pliny, ' Nat. Hist. '
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

There were no naturalists taking notes that no one will believe in the coverts.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

“So be it then!” cried Aurelius; “and when all is settled, we will join the festivities.”
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

It was too exact and too dainty a piece of work to be intrusted to clumsy or wasteful servants.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

but, if the court thought fit to desire he should continue his care of the colledge as formerly, he would do so.”
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams