With a startling burst of calculated candour he owned to it all, that he was no prophet, no Saviour, no willing ‘witness’ even; only a historical Jew, and very much at the Sultan’s service.
— from Jewish Portraits by Magnus, Katie, Lady

Jasper, and various marbles, alabaster in particular, and a red stone, called tetzontli, which is porous and light, yet firm, is much used in the capital, where the foundations being marshy, they wish not, in many spots, to overload the piles on which they are erected.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

I am, Yours, &c. An Account exhibited by Conrad Weiser of his Expences upon the Indians , and Indian Affairs, from February last to July 1, 1742, amounting to 36 l. 18 s. 3 d. was laid before the Board, and examin'd, and allow'd to be a just and very moderate Account.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

Admiring with profoundest admiration the spectacle of an inflexible will, when armed with a long-headed insight into means and quantities and forces as its instrument, and yet deeply revering the abstract ideal of justice; dazzled by the methods and the products of iron resolution, yet imbued with traditional affection for virtue; he has seen no better way of conciliating both inclinations than by insisting that they point in the same direction, and that virtue and success, justice and victory, merit and triumph, are in the long run all one and the same thing.
— from Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley

[377] Among them Jupiter and Venus (Merodach and Istar-Bilit) passed with the later astrologers as luck-bringing powers.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

The people of Java are very musical, after their fashion, and have all manner of queer instruments, many of a barbarous description, some borrowed from the Chinese.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

But with this main theme is joined a very marvellous and intricate study of the psychology of Beatrice Cenci's story, in a new form.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

But I onderstan’ love which mus’ be the same in America as in France, so I say Monsieur Ken he is ver’ jealous and ver’ mistaken, and I mus’ be patient and not sad more than is nécessaire ....
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland