The sentinel at the gate refused even to let them pass, and called his sergeant.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

In the Gnome rotary engine the lightness is entirely due to the initial design and to the materials employed in manufacture.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

Oriol, his round eyes growing rounder, echoed the last words as a question: "A wedding?" Gonzague nodded.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

Penury, that divine stepmother, did for the two men all that their mothers had not been able to do for them; Poverty taught them thrift and worldly wisdom; Poverty gave them her grand rough education, the lessons which she drives with hard knocks into the heads of great men, who seldom know a happy childhood.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

The increased production of wealth goes ultimately to the owners of land in increased rent; and, although, as improvement goes on, advantages may accrue to individuals not land holders, which concentrate in their hands considerable portions of the increased produce, yet there is in all this improvement nothing which tends to increase the general return either to labor or to capital.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

Callir'rhoe (4 syl. ), the lady-love of Chae'reas, in a Greek romance entitled The Loves of Choreas and Callirrhoê , by Char'iton (eighth century).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Even had good roads existed, the lack of ready money would have prevented him from maintaining a strong army devoted to his interests.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster