ive, and yielded, it is asserted, no inconsiderable portion of silver: but the caste of miners is extinct, and political reasons, during the Mogul domination, led to the [13] concealment of such sources of wealth.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude of his cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

To thir night watches in warlike Parade, When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The plague is now in progress—it is useless closing one's eyes to the fact—the deaths encrease each week.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Now in point of fact the life of the early kings is regulated, as we have seen and shall see more fully presently, by a very exact code of rules.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But who is there, pray, that does not in performing a service set the favour of a rich and influential man above the cause of a poor, though most worthy, person?
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Malebranche sets out with the argument that man has no innate perception of Duration.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And being hereby forced to disperse themselves into severall parts of the world, it must needs be, that the diversity of Tongues that now is, proceeded by degrees from them, in such manner, as need (the mother of all inventions) taught them; and in tract of time grew every where more copious.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The language of Cornelius Nepos is pure, his style perspicuous, and he holds a middle and agreeable course between diffuseness and brevity.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despare; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and scituation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the tree of life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

[178] Or no “merit”:—but so far as this latter notion is precisely applied, it will be more appropriately considered in ch.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She had no idea; perhaps in one of the drawers.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

When, with Perceval's leave, I may throw my chains by; And, as time now is precious, the first thing I do Is to sit down and write a wise letter to you.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

In the conduct of public affairs Margaret took no insignificant part.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

[ 166 ] Note In place of illustrative and practical selections, as given in earlier chapters, it is suggested that the student be referred to a few leading works in the department of history.
— from Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

As we didn't get home until nearly nine I proposed no dinner, but "high tea" upstairs in our salon.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

It is quite simple, after all, this generosity; for undoubtedly Marie is the most charming—charm—cha'—— Hector Bertrand went to Dufour's timber-yard at about noon the next day, selected what he required, and pompously tendered the thousand-franc note in payment.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Various

Having made her name in Paris and St. Petersburg, this ambitious lady had resolved to captivate London, and, as her appearances at the St. James's and Drury Lane Theatres had met with encouragement, she [54] boldly resolved to try her luck as an English manageress.
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton