Hood is fortifying himself, victualling himself; means, apparently, to make a new Gibraltar of it.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

and on Monday a new gang of workmen arrive; they work, for they have nowhere to go . . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

2 [A2; a12] make a net gain or income.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So to the office, and then to Sir R. Viner’s about some part of my accounts now going on with him, and then home and ended my letters, and then to supper and my chamber to settle many things there, and then to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The case of the professed statesman is, I believe, very much like that of the professed sophist; for the sophists, although they are wise men, are nevertheless guilty of a strange piece of folly; professing to be teachers of virtue, they will often accuse their disciples of wronging them, and defrauding them of their pay, and showing no gratitude for their services.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome Comes from my lord with letters.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The three made a noticeable group on the station; the girl in her fur cap and tippet and her olive green costume, pale, tense with youth, isolated, unyielding; the soldierly young man in a crush hat and a heavy overcoat, his face rather pale and reserved above his purple scarf, his whole figure neutral; then the elder man, a fashionable bowler hat pressed low over his dark brows, his face warm-coloured and calm, his whole figure curiously suggestive of full-blooded indifference; he was the eternal audience, the chorus, the spectator at the drama; in his own life he would have no drama.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I will giue it thee; And they ſhall follow vs. Thou ſhalt, I ſweare, Weare euery moneth a new gowne, out of it.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

" For men are not guilty of crimes for necessaries only (for which he thinks an equality of goods would be a sufficient remedy, as they would then have no occasion to steal cold or hunger), but that they may enjoy what they desire, and not wish for it in vain; for if their desire extend beyond the common necessaries of life, they were be wicked to gratify them; and not only so, but if their wishes point that way, they will do the same to enjoy those pleasures which are free from the alloy of pain.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

It seems that the idea they never drink is one of those erroneous notions that get into the popular mind and never get out.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

After the banker had left, Rasputin, full of satisfaction as he held the draft for the amount in his dirty paw, dictated to me another letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior, which read: "His Majesty the Emperor, having full knowledge of the charge of murder made against Nicholas Ganskau of Tver, orders that the inquiries concerning the case be abandoned and that the person suspected be not further molested."
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

The genera, which are all very distinct, are distributed as follows :— Diemenia , Acanthophis , Hoplocephalus , Brachiurophis , Tropidechis , Pseudechis , Cacophis , Pseudonaje , Denisonia , and Vermicella , are Australian, the first two ranging to the Moluccas and New Guinea; Ogmodon occurs in the Fiji Islands;
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

Secretary G.W. Toms, who had been appointed in April, 1913, reported that the association had made a net gain of thirteen members, bringing the total up to 144.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The dark buildings looked as much a natural growth of the moor as those ruined temples on the horizon, which were tors.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Bosaris correspondent at Djidda, through whom I had sent my letter to Tayf, had meanwhile mentioned my name to Yahya Effendi, the physician of Tousoun Pasha, son of Mohammed Aly, now governor of Djidda, who had been in Upper Egypt while I was there, but I had not seen him.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

You will have of mine, four Odes of Horace, which I have already translated; another small translation of forty lines from Lucretius; the whole story of Nisus and Eurialus, both in the fifth and the ninth of Virgil’s Æneids: and I care not who translates them beside me; for let him be friend or foe, I will please myself, and not give off in consideration of any man.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden