The well-known “Nix Mangiare” stairs at Malta derive their name from the endless beggars who lie there and shout, “Nix mangiare,” i.e. , “Nothing to eat,” to excite the compassion of the English who land there,—an expression which exhibits remarkably the mongrel composition of the Lingua Franca , MANGIARE being Italian, and Nix ( German , NICHTS ), an evident importation from Trieste, or other Austrian seaport.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

So long as the suspension of judgment lasts, knowledge is surely not increased; but when we remember that the enemy to whom we have surrendered is but a ghost of our own evoking, we easily reoccupy the lost ground and fall back into an ordinary posture of belief and expectation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Thou hast finished thy course and hast acquitted thyself on such wise as was vouchsafed thee of fortune; thou art come to the end whereunto each runneth; thou hast left the toils and miseries of the world, and of thy very enemy thou hast that sepulchre which thy worth hath merited.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

certain passages of Eylmann which evidently refer to the same mythical being ( Die Eingeborenen , etc., p. 185).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It is true that when she described them to her cousin by that term he declared that no epithet could be less applicable than this to the two Misses Molyneux, since there were fifty thousand young women in England who exactly resembled them.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The well known “Nix mangiare” stairs at Malta derive their name from the endless beggars who lie there and shout NIX MANGIARE , i.e. , “nothing to eat,” to excite the compassion of the English who land there,—an expression which exhibits remarkably the mongrel composition of the Lingua Franca , MANGIARE being Italian , and Nix an evident importation from Trieste, or other Austrian seaport.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

And she rushed at East, who escaped round the open trunks holding up a prize.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

If the regulated value of a guinea, for example, was either reduced to twenty, or raised to two-and-twenty shillings, all accounts being kept, and almost all obligations for debt being expressed, in silver money, the greater part of payments could in either case be made with the same quantity of silver money as before; but would require very different quantities of gold money; a greater in the one case, and a smaller in the other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Where in all the annals of history is there another record of one born of such poor parentage and reared in such a wretched environment, who ever rose to such eminence?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

But now that I find myself past the first part of my labours, although I hope to treat with more brevity, and with perhaps no less pleasure for my readers, the remainder of the description of the spectacles that were held, in which, no less than the liberality of our magnanimous Lords, and no less than the lively dexterity of the ingenious inventors, there appeared rare and excellent the industry and art of the same craftsmen, yet it should not be thought a thing beside the mark or altogether unworthy of consideration, if, before [Pg 101] going any further, we say something of the aspect of the city while the festivities for the nuptials were being prepared and after they were finished, for the reason that in the city, to the infinite entertainment of all beholders, were seen many streets redecorated both within and without, the Ducal Palace (as will be described) embellished with extraordinary rapidity, the fabric of the long corridor (which leads from that Palace to that of the Pitti) flying, as it were, with wings, the column, the fountain, and all the arches described above springing in a certain sense out of the ground, and all the other festive preparations in progress, but in particular the comedy, which was to appear first, and the two grand masquerades, which had need of most labour, and, finally, all the other things being prepared according to the time at which they were to be represented, some quickly and others more slowly; the two Lords, Duke and Prince, after the manner of the ancient Ædiles, having distributed them between themselves, and having undertaken to execute each his part in generous emulation.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

Each was ever ready to do his duty in your Majesty's service, and to save me much fatigue in all my various affairs.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c by John Lothrop Motley

Her eyes were ever ready to laugh into his.
— from A Maker of History by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

I would realize the fatigue of roasting, boiling, baking, and fabricating the choicest dishes known to the modern cuisine , and in my disturbed slumbers would enjoy with epicurean relish the food thus furnished even to repletion.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

Four several times one or other of the soldiers expressed the opinion that Grotius himself must be locked within it, but they never spoke quite seriously, and Elsje was ever ready to turn aside the remark with a jest.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Fifty or seventy-five cents each would easily replace the outfit of three-fourths of the farmers in the empire.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

At the outset of this volume the statement was hazarded that if only men could come to look at things differently from the way they now generally do, a number of our most shocking evils would either remedy themselves or show themselves subject to gradual elimination or hopeful reduction.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

The first phrase, ending with “face,” requires the falling inflection; the second, ending with “eyes,” requires the rising inflection; the third, ending with “thoughts,” requires the falling inflection.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence