Or have robbed a people who, twenty-five years from unrewarded slavery, have amassed in one State $20,000,000 of property?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

This famous University still had a great repute as a training school in law, for which profession he was intended; but the reason why he did not receive the even then far more usual completion of a public school education by a sojourn at Oxford or Cambridge may be suspected to be different.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

When Adam is introduced by Milton describing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the Angel the Impressions he felt upon seeing her at her first Creation, he does not represent her like a Grecian Venus by her Shape or Features, but by the Lustre of her Mind which shone in them, and gave them their Power of charming.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

So nothing but the mere workmanship costs; still that is expensive—the bill foots up six hundred and eighty-four millions of francs thus far (considerably over a hundred millions of dollars,) and it is estimated that it will take a hundred and twenty years yet to finish the cathedral.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Both fire and smoke (fumigation) are a good deal used by the Malays for purposes of ceremonial purification, but the details of such rites cannot be conveniently discussed except in connection with the complete ceremonies of which they form a part; they will accordingly be found under such headings as Birth, Adolescence, Marriage, Medicine, and Funerals.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

2. FAITH had a firm, unfaltering step; HOPE, a beaming eye, ever turned to the future; and LOVE, a pitying glance, and a helping hand.
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders

Indeed, I was eagerly looking forward to a continuance of our friendship under such happy auspices.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

As in describing the Illyrian coast we had proceeded as far as the Ceraunian mountains, which, although they stretch beyond the mountainous district of Illyria, yet constitute a sort of proper boundary, we determined by means of these mountains the limits of the nations in the inland parts, considering, that such separating lines would be better marks both for our present and future use; so here also the coast, although it may fall beyond the mountainous line, will still end at a proper kind of limit, the mouth of the Pontus, which will be useful both for our present and our future descriptions.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Having obtained his father’s consent, and an allowance of £300 a-year; and 162 having fixed upon St. Helena as the most convenient spot, he applied to Sir Joseph Williamson and Sir Jonas Moor, the Secretary of State and the Surveyor of the Ordnance.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

It's a small remuda, a few under sixty horses, as fifty head were detailed out here to strengthen remudas that had to go to the Yellowstone.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Manfred, after a few unimportant speeches, has all the talk to himself.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The rabbits rustled stealthily in the corner; a faint unpleasant smell hung about their home.
— from The House by the River by A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert

As in the case of the factory, Uncle Stanley had also been vice-president of the First National Bank.
— from Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

The roof, the walls, the machinery, fell upon seven hundred and fifty living men and women, and buried them.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 by Various

Edward inquired further of Birnbaum, and he brought Mendel a paper to fill up, stating his age, circumstances, parentage, etc., etc.
— from Mendel: A Story of Youth by Gilbert Cannan