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

The commissary of the bishop of Strasburg undertook the advocates, explained this matter in a treatise upon proverbial phrases, shewing them, that the Promontory of Noses was a mere allegorick expression, importing no more than that nature had given him a long nose: in proof of which, with great learning, he cited the underwritten authorities, (Nonnulli ex nostratibus eadem loquendi formula utun.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The patience, kindness and persistency of these Christian men literally turned the edge of the sword, disarmed the assassin, made the {372} spies' occupation useless, shamed away the suspicious, and conquered the nearly invincible prejudices of the government.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

In all humility unto his Highness; Say his long trouble now is passing Out of this world.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Almost all our supplies of flour and no inconsiderable part of our meat are drawn from the States westward of Hudson's River.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

and lives the atrocious villain who hath blasted all our hopes!” With these last words the fire darted from his eyes, and his brother, snatching this occasional handle for reconciling him to life, joined in his exclamations against the treacherous Fathom, and observed, that he should not, in point of honour, wish to die, until he should have sacrificed that traitor to the manes of the beauteous Monimia.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He was not, in point of fact, involved with the visible enemy, save in remote and transient ways; the German, officially, remained the most ardent of Christians during the war and became a democrat at its close.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The commissary of the bishop of Strasburg undertook the advocates, explained this matter in a treatise upon proverbial phrases, shewing them, that the Promontory of Noses was a mere allegorick expression, importing no more than that nature had given him a long nose: in proof of which, with great learning, he cited the underwritten authorities,* which had decided the point incontestably, had it not appeared that a dispute about * Nonnulli ex nostratibus eadem loquendi formulâ utun.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The appearance of the hand may be altered, but not its physiognomy or character.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Two sovereignties are necessarily in presence of each other.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The O'Neills--ever ready for a fray, and the nearest in point of distance to Scotland--promptly made overtures to the Bruces, and Edward Bruce, the victorious king's brother, was despatched at the head of a large army, and landing in 1315 near Carrickfergus was at once joined by the O'Neills, and war proclaimed.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

But if some one who would rather not admit the immortality of the soul boldly denies this, and says that the dying do really become more evil and unrighteous, then, if the speaker is right, I suppose that injustice, like disease, must be assumed to be fatal to the unjust, and that those who take this disorder die by the natural inherent power of destruction which evil has, and which kills them sooner or later, but in quite another way from that in which, at present, the wicked receive death at the hands of others as the penalty of their deeds?
— from The Republic by Plato

The lot of the negro is placed on the extreme limit of servitude, while that of the Indian lies on the utmost verge of liberty; and slavery does not produce more fatal effects upon the first, than independence upon the second.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Perhaps she was too deeply convinced of the superiority of England and of English institutions, and made too little allowance for the sensitiveness of a people who were then slowly emerging into a national in place of a particularist consciousness.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

“His nephew is president of the company,” added the other.
— from The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair

Signed by the Chiefs within named in presence of the following witnesses (the same having been first read and explained)-- (Signed)
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

In 1797 Blake seems to have written, or to have begun to write, the mystical poem ultimately entitled Vala , never published by him, and more than fifty years after his death found [30] in Linnell’s possession in such a state of confusion that it took Messrs. Ellis and Yeats days to arrange the MS., which they fondly deem to be now in proper order.
— from William Blake, Painter and Poet by Richard Garnett

There is in the language of any of the Aryan peoples now in possession of Europe no remnant, either verbal or constructive, of a language like that of the Basques.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2 by Chautauqua Institution