It might even occur that, in the course of all these transactions, their original object would be forgotten; the moderately rich Jews would have created a new and large business, and Jewish emigration would be forgotten.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

The prophecy of the Irish poet was thus accomplished, and the friar reaped the fruits; for Nelson, who was struck with the oddity of the circumstance, and not a little pleased with it, obtained preferment for him from the King of Sicily, and recommended him to the Pope.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

He traveled upon the railroad with several other men, hiding in freight cars at night, and liable to be thrown off at any time, regardless of the speed of the train.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This we looked upon with great curiosity and not a little fear, partly as a man may look in a mirror, partly as he might look into the barrel of an enemy’s gun to judge if it be truly aimed.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

He would come at night, and leave before daylight, and although she talked with him she could not see his face in the dark, and he would not tell her his name, until she was wondering all the time who it could be.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Fenodyree came at night, and looking at the clothes with great disgust at the idea of wearing such things, said:— Bayrn da’n chione, doogh da’n chione, Cooat da’n dreeym, doogh da’n dreeym, Breechyn da’n toin, doogh da’n toin,
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Although he had not quite cured him, he had greatly improved his condition; and now, at last, at the prince’s own desire, and because of a certain matter which came to the ears of the latter, Schneider had despatched the young man to Russia.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He says that there is a village of Mysia called Ascania, near a lake of the same name, 281 out of which issues the river Ascanius, mentioned by Euphorion: 282 “near the waters of the Mysian Ascanius;” and by Alexander of Ætolia: “they who dwell on the stream of Ascanius, on the brink of the Ascanian lake, where lived Dolion, the son of Silenus and Melia.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

" Consonantly with the customs of the time—yet markedly inconsistent in spirit with Burns's own case, (and not a little painful as it remains on record, as depicting some features of the bard himself,) the relation called patronage existed between the nobility and gentry on one side, and literary people on the other, and gives one of the strongest side-lights to the general coloring of poems and poets.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

There comes an annual and anonymous contribution, and not a light one, to his brother.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

His triumph could not have been more complete, and its celebration, with much discussion, much congratulation and not a little wine, lasted until midnight.
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

His Saracen colonies at Nocera and Luceria, in Italy, could supply him with 30,000 Mussulman soldiers, with whom it was impossible for his enemies to tamper.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

While the Persians were ascending they were concealed from these, since all the mountain was covered with oak-trees; and the Phokians became aware of them after they had made the ascent as follows:—the day was calm, and not a little noise was made by the Persians, as was likely when leaves were lying spread upon the ground under their feet; upon which the Phokians started up and began to put on their arms, and by this time the Barbarians were close upon them.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

The members who were present at Framingham last year, to the number of one hundred and fifty, having great pride in the C. L. S. C., and not a little Class pride, chose a committee to make arrangements suitable for so important and glorious an occasion.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

The most important expedient of all, however, lies in the establishment of a system of registering the performance of all new engines, in order that competition may stimulate the different constructors to the attainment of the utmost possible economy; and under the stimulus of comparison and notoriety, a large measure of improvement would speedily ensue.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

Each year Dover publishes over 200 books on fine art, music, crafts and needlework, antiques, languages, literature, children's books, chess, cookery, nature, anthropology, science, mathematics, and other areas.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

We were walking along the track of the Cheyenne and Northern, and looking out over the plain toward Fort Russell.
— from Lin McLean by Owen Wister

"I'm jist thinking," said Katie, "that ye'll maybe no' get onybody to gie ye a gun for sic a cruel job; and if ye did, the noise sae early in the morning wad frichten folk, and mak' an awfu' clash amang neeboors, and luik dreadfu' daft in an elder."
— from The Starling: A Scottish Story by Norman Macleod

If these two little books should suggest to any careless Englishman that foreigners of dark complexion are not all like either those white men who seem to have got into brown or black skins by mistake, whom one reads about in anti-slavery books and some missionary reports, or those equally tiresome black dummies whom one reads about in another sort of book who have no marked characteristic or intelligible custom except shooting spears and arrows at people for no apparent reason, I shall be glad to have introduced them to an English public; and let me assure those who care more for amusement than instruction that they will be amply repaid by their perusal.
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning