Those who have jewels to conceal rest in perfect security if, along with them, they can deposit a narikompu.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking "But who has won?"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

When this cerebral reorganisation is pertinent to the external situation and renders the man, when he resumes action, more a master of his world, the accompanying thought is said to be practical; for it brings a consciousness of power and an earnest of success.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

22 They all crowded round it panting and asking, "But who has won?"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

1883—The Burns Improved Sample Coffee Roaster is patented in the United States by Jabez Burns.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I may be only a soup-maker, but with luck I could open a café restaurant in Petrovka, in Moscow, for my cookery is something special, and there's no one in Moscow, except the foreigners, whose cookery is anything special.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pyrrhi quidem de captivis reddendis illa praeclara: Ennius, Ann.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

3–11, 1779; treaty documents of 1730, North Carolina Colonial Records, III , pp.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Houses containing such devices may be quite old, but if so they were certainly reoccupied in post-Spanish times.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

In addition to which, Holland has made silver only, a legal tender, which has occasioned a desire on the part of bankers who have gold on deposit, to convert it into silver; these, together with an apprehension that the amount of gold from California would in time diminish its relative value, have caused a temporary demand for silver, which has, of course, raised its price.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

The people was a mere mob, whose violence, when successful, fatally carried destruction with it; and, though it is seemingly full of a terrible power which nothing can resist, its power lasts but for a very short time.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

Some idea of cultured relations in prehistoric times may be obtained from a review of the trade communications as indicated by archaeology during the Bronze Age which lasted through the whole of the third millennium down to the middle of the second.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

She blushed, eyed him hurriedly, and seeing him complacent, resumed, "I prefer the pebble to the mountain; but if you read poetry you would not think human speech incapable of. . ."
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

[341] They may have been inspired by the salient arches of such a tunnel vault as that in the Temple of Diana at Nîmes, and in any event would seem to owe their origin to classic prototypes and to be largely decorative, a theory which is strengthened by the appearance of such a vault as that in the little church of Saint Jean-de-Moustier, at Arles (probably of the ninth century) (Revoil, I, pl. XVI), where these radiants very closely resemble Corinthian pilasters.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

Here the countess remained in profound meditation for nearly two days, during which time the attendants believed she was praying for the welfare of the soul of their deceased master, and they feared she would starve herself to death if she remained any longer.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

[Pg 224] up the cliffs; but if they did, and he found that he could not distance them, there were plenty of excellent hiding-places among the bushes and rocks, where he could remain in perfect security, with an army searching for him.
— from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon

In the mornings he wrote usually for several hours at Count Robert ; and Mr. Cadell remembers in particular, that on Ballantyne's reminding him that a motto was wanted for one of the chapters already finished, he looked out for a moment at the gloomy weather, and penned these lines— 'The storm increases—'tis no sunny shower, Foster'd in the moist breast of March or April, Or such as parched summer cools his lips with.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott