If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake to regulate the whole finances of Turkey.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

We have nothing to go upon.” “Precisely.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

I say fatal, for they are so to some, who, having no money, are obliged to give up part of their scanty apparel; and if they have no bedding or straw to sleep on, contract diseases which I have known to prove mortal.”’—C.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

After that the messenger returns to Rome to consult: the king immediately used to consult the fathers almost in the following words: "Concerning such matters, differences, and quarrels, as the pater patratus of the Roman people, the Quirites, has conferred with the pater patratus of the ancient Latins, and with the ancient Latin people, which matters ought to be given up, performed, discharged, which matters they have neither given up, performed, nor discharged, declare," says he to him, whose opinion he first asked, "what think you?"
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Hadst Thou taken the world and Cæsar's purple, Thou wouldst have founded the universal state and have given universal peace.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kneeling before him, they cried: “O Lord of a Thousand Years, we have come before you to beg leave to retire from this place, and to beseech you out of your great bounty to give us permission to take these two baskets of water with us.” The Prince readily assented, little dreaming of the danger he was incurring.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

[B26; a12] for bamboo to crack along the grain under pressure.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The work thus generously undertaken proceeded slowly, amid endless official routine and red-tape formalities.
— from William Nelson: A Memoir by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

The natural result, I should fear, would be the dwindling and stunting of the growth, unless protected by 335 expedients not common to the country, and fertilized until it should be really not growing in country soil at all."
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Old Golowski got up, put away the serviette which he had tied round his neck and held out his hand to George.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

If an officer asks for leave and is refused, he is said to be JUWAUBED ; if a gentleman unsuccessfully proposes for the hand of a lady, he is said to have got the JUWAUB .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He was compelled to give up practice for one or two years, his business being divided among the neighboring practitioners.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is well known to all those persons who are engaged on this discovery how His Holiness Clement VIII, at my humble petition, has conceded that if our Lord should be served by removing us from this world to another, at the hour of death, if unable to confess or to take the sacrament, being contrite, we name the most holy name of Jesus, either with our mouths or in our hearts, he gives us plenary indulgence and remission of all our sins.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

And perchance then the big Welsh Bible Dr. Parry had provided for his countrymen a century before would be brought out and laid on the table close to the solitary candle, to be read aloud or spelled out by the growing boy or girl, under paternal instruction.
— from The Making of William Edwards; or, The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.

The conversation among the friars during the hour when they meet together, is generally upon philosophical or theological subjects, and sometimes politics; but the young friar was no doubt still ignorant of the conversation which those who are emancipated from the restraints put upon youth, hold with each other; for Dominican councils have not always been held in their hall of recreation.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

You might just as well give up peaceable."
— from Raw Gold: A Novel by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Then I got up, put on my hat, buttoned my overcoat, and looked round the room [39] —had I left any traces of my visit?
— from Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner With Introductory and Explanatory Notes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky