After some days of preliminary purification, sacrifice, and other ceremonial performances, the day appointed for the kindling of the new fire arrived.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Lay down our personal property, Smike,’ he said, after showing young Crummles downstairs.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The year required censors also, chiefly on account of the uncertain representations regarding the debt; the tribunes of the commons exaggerating the amount of it on account of the odium of the thing, whilst it was underrated by those whose interest it was that the difficulty of procuring payment should appear to depend rather on [the want of] integrity, than of ability in the debtors.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

"And in the end of years they shall join themselves together, and the king's daughter of the south," (Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of the other Ptolemy), "shall come to the king of the north," (to Antiochus Deus, King of Syria and of Asia, son of Seleucus Lagidas), "to make peace between these princes.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

título , m. , title ( of a book ), deed ( of property ); pl. , securities.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

For most part we mistake the name of Politicians, accounting such as read Machiavel and Tacitus, great statesmen, that can dispute of political precepts, supplant and overthrow their adversaries, enrich themselves, get honours, dissemble; but what is this to the bene esse, or preservation of a Commonwealth?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Act of Congress of March 8, 1902, repealed the export duties imposed by the Act of the Philippine Commission of September 17, 1901, as to exports to the United States, leaving unrepealed , however, the export duty on Philippine products shipped to foreign countries .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

And as those old Romans had several distinct gods, for divers offices, persons, places, so have they saints, as [6376]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The oca is cultivated in some of the colder parts of this and the neighbouring provinces; this plant is of a moderate size—in appearance somewhat like the acetous trefoil; the roots are [Pg 56] yellow, each about five or six inches long and two in circumference; they have many eyes, like the potato, and are seldom straight like the the carrot or radish, but curved in different directions: one plant produces several roots, and they are propagated in the same manner as potatoes.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

This country, still desirous of preserving peace, sent three Commissioners.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

And, diffident of present praise, Somewhat he spoke of former days, And how old age, and wandering long, Had done his hand and harp some wrong."
— from Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Richard Holt Hutton

He thought, and with good reason, that the sooner that young man was in bed and asleep the better it would be for his health, because a mercurial temperament was levying heavy draughts on physical powers, so he gave no hint of the nebulous doubt induced by the detective's words.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

Whether these crimes will be as freely attempted under the new law remains to be developed, but some of the distributors of personal property schedules are again playing their old trick of taking money from the poor under promise of returning them as non-holders of taxable personal property.
— from Chicago, Satan's Sanctum by L. O. Curon

It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub-women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

At first one man often undertook all the varieties of book production and bookselling, but gradually the four broad divisions of printers, publishers, second-hand booksellers, and auctioneers came into existence.
— from Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley