Four times a year Miss Wirt entered this apartment to get her salary; and his daughters to receive their quarterly allowance.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

However, John staid behind, out of his fear of Simon, even while his own men were earnest in making a sally upon their enemies without.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The attack began at 1 p.m., by Admiral Porter, and the sound of his first gun had not died till your men were engaged—
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The large majority of colonies have been first inhabited either by men without education and without resources, driven by their poverty and their misconduct from the land which gave them birth, or by speculators and adventurers greedy of gain.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo Of dumps so dull and heavy; The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leavy.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

The big man was examining the note searchingly under the gas-jet.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

1, 63, Socrates used to maintain that all men were eloquent enough in a matter which they understood ( 1766 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Samoylenko was quite crushed; his face wore a guilty, abashed, and ingratiating expression, and it was strange to see this pitiful, childish, shamefaced countenance on a huge man wearing epaulettes and orders of merit.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension, I did not in my first consternation understand why; but a few more words explained to me that the murdered person was Sir Leicester's lawyer, and immediately my mother's dread of him rushed into my remembrance.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

When, however, the intricacy and length of technical production increased, the ownership of these things becomes a monopoly, which easily makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Nothing can be bought to drink, except lemonade and soda-water, made with enteric germs.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

But the public was not easily interested; ordinary folk did not believe that men would ever fly, while many people declared that it was going against Nature for us to try to imitate the birds, and that nothing but mischief would come of so doing.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

I do not like to treat harshly the errors into which a very young person may fall: but the man who employs him, and puts him into a situation for which he has neither capacity nor experience, is responsible for the consequences of such an appointment; and Mr. Hastings is doubly responsible in this case, because he placed Mr. Markham as Resident merely to show that he defied the authority of the Court of Directors.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The little wizened man fairly shrieked the name and, leaping to his feet, bounded about the room like an animated rubber ball, while from his lips poured a steady stream of vile epithets, mingled with every curse and gem of profanity known to two languages.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The argument itself is a very poor one, since it might with equal justice be maintained, that as we possess faculties for the appreciation of colours, we should make up for the deficiencies of nature and use the gayest tints in those regions where the landscape is most monotonous.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

my poor muse would long labour in vain, To express our delight in Victoria’s reign, Long may we exult in her merciful sway, May her moments speed blithely and sweetly as May,
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

It did not, of course, have the range of tones or the delicacy of modeling possible in the copper plate medium, where every little trench cut by the burin would hold ink BELOW the wiped-off surface, to be transferred to dampened paper under the heavy pressure of the cylinder press.
— from Why Bewick Succeeded: A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen

There’s hardly a capful of wind as blows but what some poor unfort’nate craft leaves her bones out there,”—with a jerk of the thumb over his shoulder to seaward,—“and mostly with every wreck there’s some lives lost.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

And yet just as the whole man was engaged in doing that work, so does the whole Deity perform that work which is attributed to one essential.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

Such an official, then, receives 194 the dues of the subjects, determines when and where forced labor is to be rendered, receives the deodands, fees and penalties payable in cattle, etc.; and in consideration of these must maintain the armed force, place definite numbers of armed men at the disposal of the central government, build and maintain highways and bridges, feed and stable the ruler and his following, or his “royal messengers,” and finally, furnish a definite “Sergeantry” consisting of highly valuable goods, easily transported to the court, such as horses, cattle, slaves, precious metals, wines, etc.
— from The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer