He had some money and Canigiano having lent him other some, he made up a number of bales well packed and corded; then, buying a score of oil-casks and filling them, he embarked the whole and returned to Palermo, where, having given the customhouse officers the bill of lading and the value of the casks and let enter everything to his account, he laid the whole up in the magazines, saying that he meant not to touch them till such time as certain other merchandise which he expected should be come.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

So those that were thus distressed by the famine were very desirous to die, and those already dead were esteemed happy, because they had not lived long enough either to hear or to see such miseries. 5.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Like everything else, that has changed; heads have re-taken their natural form, and there is not the slightest trace of the ancient deformity in the skulls of the chaplet-makers.
— from Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne

For this had been the object of the 24 hours’ grace, which, like everything else that had happened at the “little show,” had been granted under instructions from the Spook.
— from The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones

A tiny little shell of a boat came drifting toward him, in which was a black-eyed boy, with cheeks like a pomegranate and lustrous tendrils of silky dark hair, and a little golden-haired girl, white as a water-lily, and looking ethereal enough to have risen out of the sea-foam.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She left Ellen entirely to herself, scarcely speaking to her, or seeming to know when she went out or came in.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

His extravagant speech provoked a smile on her face, and she turned her head from where she knelt before the safe, and lifted her large earnest eyes to his.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

And detached from its connection, the noble Lutheran church hymn becomes, like everything else that has vital significance, nothing.
— from Hymnological Studies by Matthew Nathanael Lundquist

Mr. Heller had used this size in Africa and found that they were large enough even to hold lions.
— from Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

Ecciva, who is the ' Melusina ?'" "She is the evil genius of the House of [Pg 80] Lusignan," Ecciva explained to her excited companion, "all Cyprus knoweth that when the Melusina crieth three times from the towers of the ancient Château of Lusignan, in far France, it meaneth death, or some great misfortune to a ruler of this house."
— from The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.