Again, in the French inventory of the Garde-Meuble of 1353 we find two pieces of Tartary , one green and the other red, priced at 15 crowns each.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Fanny will feel quite as grateful as the occasion requires,” was Edmund's only reply, and the subject dropt.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Our estate and bene esse ebbs and flows with our commodity; and as we are endowed or enriched, so are we beloved and esteemed: it lasts no longer than our wealth; when that is gone, and the object removed, farewell friendship: as long as bounty, good cheer, and rewards were to be hoped, friends enough; they were tied to thee by the teeth, and would follow thee as crows do a carcass: but when thy goods are gone and spent, the lamp of their love is out, and thou shalt be contemned, scorned, hated, injured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It is now generally admitted that our repeated efforts to relieve Ladysmith in the South African War were so many strategical blunders which defeated their own purpose.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

'Pretty well,' replied the Dodger, producing two pocket-books; one green, and the other red. 'Not so heavy as they might be,' said the Jew, after looking at the insides carefully; 'but very neat and nicely made.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Barber’s Clerk , an overdressed shopboy who apes the manners of, and tries to pass himself off as, a gentleman; a term of reproach applied not to an artisan but to one of those who, being below, assume airs of superiority over, handicraftsmen.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The following petition to the Collector of the Nilgiris on the subject of buffalo sacrifice may be quoted as a sign of the times, when the Todas employ petition-writers to express their grievances:— “According to our religious custom for the long period, we are bringing forward of our killing buffaloes without any irregular way.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The policy of the ancient republics of Greece, and that of Rome, though it honoured agriculture more than manufactures or foreign trade, yet seems rather to have discouraged the latter employments, than to have given any direct or intentional encouragement to the former.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

{331} CHAPTER XXII AN END AND A BEGINNING N O doubt the groundsman at the Oval rubbed his hands together with satisfaction when he looked out of his bedroom window on the following morning.
— from Roland Whately: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

In the hope of controlling them, Gottfried, at their own request, puts himself at their head, but finds himself powerless to check their excesses, and on their defeat he is again taken prisoner.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Every man here had ridden, night after night, up to the lines of death, under shell-fire and machine-gun fire, up by Longueval and Bazentin, carrying food for men and guns at their own risk of life.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

BY ROBERT BRUCE TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D. 49 The last quarter of a century has seen a vast change in the general attitude toward organized religion.
— from Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

The quarters of the commanding officer with the flag staff directly in front, faced the parade ground and the Old Round Tower.
— from Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858 by Marcus Lee Hansen

The factory at that time of year began to present, in spite of its crude architecture, quite a charming appearance, from the luxuriant vines which covered it and were beginning to get autumnal tints of red and russet.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Until the formal paper work went through, our plan was that whenever a UFO report worth investigating came in we would call the 4602nd and they would get a team out right away.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

I replied: "Whilst thy passion was that of studying grammar, all trace of reason was erased from our hearts.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

For the man of genius is forced by his own cravings to give, and the only reward that he asks from society is to be [Pg 200] let alone and have some quiet and fresh air.
— from Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse

I approve of the orders you gave for intercepting the pirates, and that they were given as the occasion required, without waiting to consult me, which would have defeated the object.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson