In England, gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was coined into money.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Such is the Lomenie-Lamoignon device; welcome to the King's Council, as a light-beam in great darkness.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

No other building in the square could vie with them in size, seeing that the remaining edifices consisted only of a sentry-box, a shelter for two or three cabmen, and a long hoarding—the latter adorned with the usual bills, posters, and scrawls in chalk and charcoal.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

As I was saying, the Marquis was most out of humour, as I thought, when the chevalier I spoke of had been at the chateau, and, at last, his ill treatment of my lady made her quite miserable.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself—but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The gift comprised also a lot of jewels, a fine steel sword, and an Arab stallion; and the lion was made over to a show-man.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For pain must be reckoned as the negative quantity of pleasure, to be balanced against and subtracted from the positive in estimating happiness on the whole; we must therefore conceive, as at least ideally possible, a point of transition in consciousness at which we pass from the positive to the negative.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I came across and looked round the hut the very first thing to see if the slides were closed.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

at 1/2 after ten A.M. it became fair, and we had the canoes which wanted repairing hailed out and with the assistance of fires which we had kindled for the purpose dryed them sufficiently to receive the pitch which was immediately put on them; at 3 in the evening we had them compleat and again launched and reloaded.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

{509} The essential error of the non-catholic church theory is, that it denies the central cell or germ whence is evolved or produced the whole church organism, and assumes that the church derives her life from her members, and that she is constituted in her unity and catholicity as a living body by the combination of the several parts, or that the central cell is created by the organism, not the organism by the central or organic cell, which is as much as to say, multiplicity can exist without unity to produce it, or that dead or unliving parts can generate life and activity!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

If "on the job" meant "on the car," as at least seems probable, instructions were followed with alacrity.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

It is one of the most curious monuments of the thirteenth century, and at least as interesting for its subject as for its architecture.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

A diamond arrow had pierced her clustering and auburn locks; she wore, indeed, no necklace; with such a neck it would have been sacrilege; no ear-rings, for her ears were too small for such a burthen; yet her girdle was of brilliants; and a diamond cross worthy of Belinda and her immortal bard hung upon her breast.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But it was harder, slower going--the shoes caught in snags and roots unless they moved with greatest care, and a long swing was difficult.
— from Two on the Trail: A Story of Canada Snows by E. E. (Edith Elise) Cowper

VI.123 The twelfth volume of Bartsch’s Peintre-Graveur contains an ample list of Italian chiaro-scuros, together with the names of the painters and engravers.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Away it flew like a flash—a bird no longer, but a great, black demon, smoking and smelling most horribly of brimstone, and when the soldier gathered his wits, there lay the feather cap and a little, round, black stone upon the ground.
— from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle

The fellow was turning away disappointed, perhaps, at the melting of the crowd and any little hope he might have based upon their pockets.
— from The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Walter Besant

“But it left me with a little less conceit and a little more sympathy with the hallucinations of others not so gifted.”
— from The Spectre In The Cart 1908 by Thomas Nelson Page