Again, the Valluvans must have formerly held a position at least equal to that of the Vellālas, if the story that Tiruvalluva Nāyanar married a Vellāla girl is true.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

personally, he had always put a low estimate upon his capacity.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

And after he returned his prospects would be brighter, for Mr. Gilbert had promised to find him a position at least equal to the one he resigned.
— from Mark Mason's Victory by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The mantle varies in size with the size and type of the light, ranging from 35 to 85 millimetres in diameter, the latter, in conjunction with a hyperradial apparatus, producing a light exceeding 1,000,000 candle-power.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

In my own case—of which I may be allowed to speak—to say nothing of what the Society of Jesus has legitimately obtained through its work and administration, I had at least a right to what I duly inherited from my [435] parents, with which I had acquired personal and landed estates, all registered in my name; yet I was forced to leave Portugal without anything but the clothes on my back, and even these I owed to a friend, for I possessed no secular dress in which to make my escape.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

On the day of my departure, and at the very moment when I was preparing to set out, Zourin came to my hut, holding in his hand a paper, and looking exceedingly troubled.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

But Morris was scarcely less attracted by Greek myths than by the old literature of Scandinavia; and he also produced a long epic poem upon the story of Jason and Medea, the story of the Golden Fleece.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

Let them make the fatal admission that woman has a political and legal existence and the rest is only a matter of time.”
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

It will remind you of home and perhaps a little even of me.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James