So home to dinner, where Povy by agreement, and after dinner we to talk of our Tangier matters, about keeping our profit at the pay and victualling of the garrison, if the present undertakers should leave it, wherein I did [not] nor will do any thing unworthy me and any just man, but they being resolved to quit it, it is fit I should suffer Mr. Povy to do what he can with Mr. Gauden about it to our profit.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Which puts it out of dispute that the Cinnaber reflects the red Light much more copiously than the ultra -marine doth, and the ultra -marine reflects the blue Light much more copiously than the Cinnaber doth.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things unto me (John xii. 32).
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

All the Saints, the higher they are exalted in glory, the humbler are they in themselves, and the nearer and dearer are they unto Me.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

It was all too true to be disputed, and the unlucky man
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I had no sooner said so, but I perceived the creature (whatever it was) within two oars’ length, which something surprised me; however, I immediately stepped to the cabin door, and taking up my gun, fired at him; upon which he immediately turned about and swam towards the shore again.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The views of natural causation embraced by the savage magician no doubt appear to us manifestly false and absurd; yet in their day they were legitimate hypotheses, though they have not stood the test of experience.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He possessed the power of causing at will, mighty and destructive tempests, in which the billows rise mountains high, the wind becomes a hurricane, land and sea being enveloped in thick mists, whilst destruction assails the unfortunate mariners exposed to their fury.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

12 Nothing is more natural than the Triad: the regions which may be most simply distinguished are the Upper, Middle, and Lower.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

O noble Prince, I can discover all The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And after the first of May Tom gave Foley even less concern, for he had finally secured work in the shipping department of a wholesale grocer, so could no longer show himself by day among the union men.
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott

The hundred fishermen die, and the unpoisoned millions live.
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

Darlehen aufnehmen take up money Geld aufnehmen takeover Geschäftsübernahme takeover bid Übernahmeangebot takeover price Übernahmepreis taking in charge of the goods Übernahme der
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

What does all this uproar mean? Are you so puffed up because of the Czar's visit, [1] that you imagine yourselves no longer subject to the laws of Nature?
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

To be enceinte , even legally, is considered degrading, and the unfortunate mothers are beaten and worried incessantly during the time of pregnancy, and until their child is born.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

Report, or scandal, whichever you please, said that the old gentleman had been rather wild in his youthful days, and that, unlike most parents, he was not disposed to be violently indignant when he found that his son took after him.
— from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens

If some one would say to me, that they would give my wife bread untel I could be Educated I would stoop my trade this day and take up my books.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

or can you not rest here another day, and tell us more of those glorious things?” said the old man, placing his hand on Spena’s shoulder, and gazing earnestly into his face.
— from The Woodcutter of Gutech by William Henry Giles Kingston

They swung into step behind the detectives, across the uneven, marshy ground.
— from The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Mary E. Hanshew