The curious old book called The English Rogue makes the limit thirteen pence ha’penny: death being the portion of any who steal a thing ‘above the value of thirteen pence ha’penny.’ NOTES to Chapter XXVII.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

They went about recruiting; and where could they enlist recruits more hopefully, than among the fine gentlemen who, having found out everything to be worth nothing, were equally ready for anything?
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Where it is complicated the exposition requires more space, as in Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and King Lear .
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Consequently two extracted recessives mated inter se can not throw the dominant condition; but two imperfect dominants, even though indistinguishable from recessives, will throw dominants.
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport

Just imagine if some power stronger than himself were to compel this ever restless monarch to quiescence!
— from The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam

If you think I have been of use to you, you can thus easily repay me, and so far from losing, may reap some advantage by the way.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

The introduction of the bankrupt laws could not fail to afford an effectual relief to persons reduced to this unfortunate condition, and must be productive of much future benefit, in consequence of the continual augmentation of the trade of the settlement, and the increasing numbers of the dealers; circumstances of themselves which must carry to every rational mind the strong necessity which exists for the adoption and introduction of some legal code, assimilated as much as possible to the bankrupt laws of the mother country, if it should be considered imprudent to copy precisely after this exquisite model.
— from The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by D. D. (David Dickinson) Mann

So that it seems tolerably clear that even religious men, in those days, thought it lawful to use language similar to that employed by Abraham (Gen. xxiv.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

When to this is added the havoc committed by {154} the storm—one hundred miles wide—in the rural districts, as it traveled on toward the foot-hills, it is clear that every reader may be devoutly thankful that such terrible visitants are altogether unknown in our land.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

Yea, seven days the Shah and his warriors feasted together in thanksgiving, and continually they exalted Rustem, mighty slayer of the Great White Deev.
— from The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi by Elizabeth D. Renninger

Before the evening was over Eustace and Nesta had grasped something of what coming to England really meant: it seemed a case of shut doors all round—there was no feeling of home about it.
— from Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield