At another time, he stopped a close-fisted old fellow, of great wealth, but who skulked about the city in the guise of a scarecrow, with a patched blue surtout, brown hat, and mouldy boots, scraping pence together, and picking up rusty nails.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And altogether their angelology is illustrated, and not improbably was suggested, by the doctrine of intermediate beings concerned in the government of nature and of man, such as the Amshaspands, which is an integral part of the Zoroastrian system
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In spite of her anger, there was something so comic in the groans of the porter that Zobeida could not refrain from laughing.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

There was valor and contempt for circumstances in the glance of his eye.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

The real interest of their masters, if they were capable of understanding it, is the same with that of the country; {The interest of every proprietor of India stock, however, is by no means the same with that of the country in the government of which his vote gives him some influence.—See book v, chap.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She made him her stately curtsey in the garden, one morning before breakfast.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“You look a little low, Charley,” said Lord Fitzheron, as taking their lunch in their drag he poured the champagne into the glass of Egremont.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As I was turning carelessly away, a slight commotion in the group of curious loiterers around the gates attracted my attention.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

They had been unable to divide and bring them over by holding out the prospect of changes in their governments, or to crush them by their great superiority in force, but had failed in most of their attempts, and being already in perplexity, had now been defeated at sea, where defeat could never have been expected, and were thus plunged deeper in embarrassment than ever.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

He sent Gouvion de Saint Cyr into the gulf of Tarento, formerly evacuated after the peace of Amiens.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

Is a confidence in the goodness of God more trying to faith, than the belief that a God exists, to whom these words, transcending our powers of conception, apply?
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

Their beauty lies chiefly in the gift of execution.
— from Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

If my expression can convey my idea, I wish to distinguish excellence of this kind by calling it the Genius of mechanical performance.
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

You will encounter strange company in the game of politics.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

Mr. Birbeck*, whose "Letters," if not "Notes," contain strong marks of an exaggerated anticipation of their resources and capabilities, has not, though evidently under the influence of feelings quite incompatible with a correct and disinterested judgment, ventured to rate his imaginary maximum of the profit to be derived from farming in the Illinois, (which appears to be the principal magnet of attraction possessed by the United States,) so high as I have proved by a calculation, to which I defy any one to attach the character of hyperbolical, that the investment of capital in the growth of fine wool in this colony will infallibly produce.
— from Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth

The powers of the General government are the power— To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the general welfare of the United States; to borrow money on the credit of the United States; to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; to coin money and regulate the value thereof, and fix the standard of weights and measures; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; to establish post-offices and post-roads; to promote the progress of science and of the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations; to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; to raise and support armies; to provide and maintain a navy; to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces; to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions; to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and of governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States; to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise a like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings; and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or office thereof.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Hence again, when he speaks of giving glory to his afflicted church, for all the sorrow which she hath sustained in her bearing witness for the truth against antichrist, he calls it the glory of Lebanon.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

There is a little place about 30 miles out of Dallas called, I think, Greenfield, or something like that, that I was told she was around.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission