But let us further suppose that in a subsequent part of the same act it should be declared that no woman should dispose of any estate of a determinate value without the consent of three of her nearest relations, signified by their signing the deed; could it be inferred from this regulation that a married woman might not procure the approbation of her relations to a deed for conveying property of inferior value?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Now we will not be so degenerate as to need Emund to give us counsel; but let us, friends and relations, unite ourselves for the purpose of coming to a determination."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Besides these, at many places extensive workings are continually brought to light as the country is opened up, and these appear to have been left undisturbed for at least a hundred years.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He will hesitate, deviate, turn back, lay up for himself repentance and pain.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

But let us first determine whether this is of one kind only, or more;
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

At that place, Betteredge looked up from the letter.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Their wants were so few that they had but little use for money.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But let us first read what he has written here....”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Bird bolas, looped up for carrying 245 248.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

'So spake they, but I answered them with soft words: "Behold, let us first of all draw up the ship ashore, and bestow our goods in the caves and all our gear.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

[Pg 171] "Well," said Mr. George, "we will; but let us first stop here a few minutes to look at the Jungfrau."
— from Rollo in Switzerland by Jacob Abbott

Ellen Bayliss looked up from her sewing to throw this in, with her air of deprecating courtesy.
— from Country Neighbors by Alice Brown

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

Mr. Bacon said, if the object of the motion was to go into a new liquidation of the old accounts between the United States and the several States, it would not only take up every day of the present session, but the work would be left unfinished for our successors.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

There are several islands in Polynesia that have been looked upon from time immemorial as islands of the dead.
— from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer

He explained, however, that the jetmarine's transparent nose pane—which had to be left unprotected for the pilot's visibility—offered one vulnerable spot to sonar detection.
— from Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Appleton, Victor, II

A melancholy incident occurred on his return—General Bruce, who had been labouring under fever, died soon after reaching England on the 24th of June.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

Those who are accustomed to English bindings are [pg 33] apt to find fault with the firmness of his backs, as they do not throw out like English loose backs; but this subject of loose backs is but little understood; for, when it is known that what is generally esteemed an excellence is often but an indication of weakness,—that, in order to make the book throw out and lie open flat, the substance by which the sheets are secured together is a single strip of paper,—and that, where the band upon which the book is sewn can be plainly seen upon the opening of the volume, there is a strain upon it, the result of which must be its breakage, if in constant use, (a catastrophe that will never happen to one of Bauzonnet's books,)—the firm back will be preferred.
— from A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. by James B. (James Bartram) Nicholson