Thorpe then said something in the loud, incoherent way to which he had often recourse, about its being a d—thing to be miserly; and that if people who rolled in money could not afford things, he did not know who could, which Catherine did not even endeavour to understand.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

With the pack-saddle I do not concern myself; but I may tell you on that head that my squire Sancho asked my permission to strip off the caparison of this vanquished poltroon's steed, and with it adorn his own; I allowed him, and he took it; and as to its having been changed from a caparison into a pack-saddle, I can give no explanation except the usual one, that such transformations will take place in adventures of chivalry.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With the pack-saddle I do not concern myself; but I may tell you on that head that my squire Sancho asked my permission to strip off the caparison of this vanquished poltroon’s steed, and with it adorn his own; I allowed him, and he took it; and as to its having been changed from a caparison into a pack-saddle, I can give no explanation except the usual one, that such transformations will take place in adventures of chivalry.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The marquis was not etymologist enough to understand Malcolm's poor pun, and doubtless thought it worse than it was.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

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— from The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J. W. (John William) Robertson Scott

But she was not old enough, and not experienced enough, to understand how to manage such an affair.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum by Jane L. Stewart

The answers to these appeals were commonly written in Lady Chatham’s hand, from her lord’s dictation; for he had not energy even to use a pen.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

A fortnight before he had written a letter to the president, in which he had denounced alike the Jacobin leaders of the clubs and the Girondin ministers, and had called on the Assembly to suppress the clubs; a letter which had produced no effect except to unite the two parties against whom it was aimed more closely together, and also to give them a warning of his hostility to them, which, till he was in a position to show it by deeds, it would have been wiser to have avoided.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Septimius had read, in the old college library during his pupilage, a work on ciphers and cryptic writing, but being drawn to it only by his curiosity respecting whatever was hidden, and not expecting ever to use his knowledge, he had obtained only the barest idea of what was necessary to the deciphering a secret passage.
— from Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Though carried on in a tongue which is a stranger to our own, the object and meaning of the conference are not entirely enigmatical to us.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

Non vero tam isti, quam tu ipse, nugator, neque enim ex te umquam es nobilitatus, sed ex lateribus et lacertis tuis.
— from Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are {279} told by Mr. Markham, in his evidence here, that he was a man who had dishonored his family,—he was the disgrace of his house,—that he was a person who could not be trusted; and Mr. Hastings, in giving Mr. Markham full power afterwards to appoint Naibs, expressly excepted this Ussaun Sing from all trust whatever, as a person totally unworthy of it.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke