So he sent for him, and embraced him after the most affectionate manner, and bestowed on him the country called Carra; it was a soil that bare amomum in great plenty: there are also in it the remains of that ark, wherein it is related that Noah escaped the deluge, and where they are still shown to such as are desirous to see them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier—I did not estimate the distance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it—it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It was probably a household manufacture, in which every different part of the work was occasionally performed by all the different members of almost every private family, but so as to be their work only when they had nothing else to do, and not to be the principal business from which any of them derived the greater part of their subsistence.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The lordship of his wife he did not enjoy through descent, and consequently he would naturally incline to place it "in pretence," and from the constant occasions in which such a proceeding would seem to be the natural course of events (all of which occasions Page 540 {540} would be associated with an heiress-wife), one would be led to the conclusion that such a form of display indicated an heiress-wife; and consequently the rule deduced, as are all heraldic rules, from past precedents became established.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The legislators of democracies must not expect to devise any military organization capable by its influence of calming and restraining the military profession: their efforts would exhaust their powers, before the object is attained.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It is easy to find fault with this system of doing work, whilst it is not easy to discover another at once so easily understood by educated readers, and so satisfactory to artists themselves.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He who offers "a penny for your thoughts" does not expect to drive any great bargain.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

There was nothing else to do, and so every body went to hunting relics.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But having nothing else to do, and I am sure I shall not sleep a wink to-night, if I was to go to bed, I will write my time away, and take up my story where I left off, on Sunday afternoon.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Then it was other nations, especially the Dutch and the English, that led the van.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

And yet it is not easy to define a gentleman, as the multitudes who have made the attempt can testify.
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

It was neither pleasant nor easy to do all that she had to do in the snow that morning; but little Sophy had a cheerful heart and a willing mind, and came in rosy and laughing, though a little breathless when all was done.
— from Stephen Grattan's Faith: A Canadian Story by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Shure he niver earns two dollars a week at all.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

To convince him that no nonsense would be permitted, George galloped nigh enough to deliver a resounding whack on his haunch with the stock of his gun.
— from Deerfoot on the Prairies by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I call my journal my "daily-round," though it isn't anything of the kind, for I only scribble in it when I have nothing else to do, and when I am waiting for Dimbie to come home.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

The whole point of this introduction of the Nous into the philosophy of Anaxagoras is because he could not explain the design and order of the universe on a purely physical basis.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

If a few are bold enough to disregard caste, they are never enough to do anything that counts.
— from John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. (Dan Brearley) Brummitt

In some cases, naturally enough, these doctrines are [Pg 221] truths, but in a great many other cases they are errors.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

so much"—and he coupled the two fists; "and of wine, by the soul of the world, not enough to drown a flea!
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett