A mixture of gold and silver, which was called electrum, was much used for coinage, and I have met with one or two ligulae of this metal.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

For it may be said that the actual utility of any service must depend much upon favourable circumstances and fortunate accidents, not due to any desert of the agent: or again, may be due to powers and skills which were connate, or have been developed by favourable conditions of life, or by good education, and why should we reward him for these?
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She received me with that excellence of heart which could only die with her; but I sought the influence there which could never be recalled, and had hardly been half an hour with her before I was once more convinced that my former happiness had vanished forever, and that I was in the same melancholy situation which I had been obliged to fly from; yet without being able to accuse any person with my unhappiness, for Courtilles really was not to blame, appearing to see my return with more pleasure than dissatisfaction.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When you come home you will have some shirts to make up for Charles.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

[a musical instrument] sub in for Disease of St. Job alupalan 372 Bring me palatin comorica for certain Rice cakes tinapai 373 Good main No tidale for Knife capol, sundan for Scissors catle To shave chunthinch for a well adorned Man pixao for Linen balandan for the cloth with which they cover themselves abaca for hawk’sbell coloncolon 374 for Pater nosters of all classes tacle [ 195 ] for Comb cutlei, missamis for to Comb monssughud for Shirt sabun for Sewing-needle daghu for to Sew mamis for Porcelain mobuluc for Dog aian, ydo for Cat epos for their Scarfs gapas for Glass Beads balus Come here marica for House ilaga, balai for Timber tatamue for the Mats on which they sleep tagichan for Palm-mats bani for their Leaf cushions uliman for Wooden platters dulan for their God abba for Sun adlo for Moon songhot for Star bolan, bunthun for Dawn mene for Morning uema for Cup tagha Large bassal for Bow bossugh for Arrow oghon for Shields calassan for Quilted garments used for fighting baluti for their daggers calix, baladao [ 197 ] for their Cutlasses campilan for Spear bancan for Like tuan for Figs [ i.e. , bananas] saghin for Gourds baghin for the Cords of their violins gotzap for River tau for Fishing-net pucat, laia for small Boat sampan for large Canes cauaghan for the small ones bonbon for their large Boats balanghai for their small Boats boloto 375 for Crabs cuban for Fish icam, yssida for a Fish that is all colored panapsapan for another red [Fish] timuan for a certain other [kind of Fish] pilax for another [kind of Fish] emaluan All the same siama siama for a Slave bonsul for Gallows bolle for Ship benaoa for a King or Captain-general raia Numero: Vno Vzza [ 198 ] duy dua tre tolo.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Ah me, for my unhappy fate, Compelled thy words to tolerate!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

, make up for. compilar t compile.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

When we were got out of sight we were careful for the curing of our hurt men, and from that time forwards went no more unarmed, fearing continually to be assaulted on the sudden: and good cause we had: for before sun-setting some twenty men or thereabouts, which also were pirates, made towards us, riding upon monstrous great dolphins, which carried them surely: and when their riders gat upon their backs, would neigh like horses.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

'Tis yet to know,— Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, I shall promulgate,—I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege; and my demerits May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhousèd free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea's worth.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

So to my father’s, my father and mother in bed, who had been with my uncle Fenner, &c., and my wife all day and expected me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We have here an illustration of a simple Spectroscope, which is much used for chemical analysis (fig. 150).
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

He makes the grand quartz formation "limestone, of which the materials used for constructing the town (coralline!) appear to have been chiefly derived."
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

On the Nueces, about twenty-five miles up from Corpus Christi, were a few log cabins, the remains of a town called San Patricio, but the inhabitants had all been massacred by the Indians, or driven away.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

At that time my father was at Government House in Devonport, as General in Command of the Western District, and my Uncle Fred, Colonel Hutchinson, used to come there and tell us of some game, the most wonderful in the world, that he had lately learned to play when he was in Scotland, as Adjutant of the Fife Militia.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

Most useful for children and fools.
— from The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory by L. (Lily) Dougall

The earth was warm and dry and the sun made us feel comfortable as we basked in it like so many grey lizards.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

At first they seriously considered the inconveniences which might arise from miscegenation under frontier conditions and generally refrained from extensive intermingling.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

At the same time three Bavarian battalions, accompanied by cavalry and artillery, marched up from Cravant and drove the French out of Villejouan.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

The most unpleasant feature connected with purchasing is that everything is a matter of bargain.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie