Yule had no more predilection for the Monastic Orders than most of his countrymen, but his sense of justice was shocked by the cruel incidence of the measure in many cases, and also by the harshness with which both it and the punishment of suspected insurgents was carried out.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Gadsden Purchase: In 1853, we made what is known as the Gadsden Purchase, acquiring thus from Mexico a needed tract of land on the boundary between Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico, paying for this tract $10,000,000.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

I was.—But how I came to be so very particular in my account of a thing which happened before I was born, is owing to another small anecdote known only in our own family, but now made publick for the better clearing up this point.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

‘I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me,’ that’s as much as to say, Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This makes him angry, but Sir W. Coventry I perceive cares not, but do every day hold up his head higher and higher, and this day I have received an order from the Commissioners of the Treasury to pay no more pensions for Tangier, which I am glad of, and he tells me they do make bold with all things of that kind.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The operation necessitates my presence for the construction of a furnace, and for the great care necessary, far the least mistake will spoil all.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

n mud pool for the water buffalo to wallow in.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

What, therefore, will the reader think when I shall have told him, with all the truth he has ever found in me, that, from the first moment in which I saw her, until that wherein I write, I have never felt the least love for her, that I never desired to possess her more than I did to possess Madam de Warens, and that the physical wants which were satisfied with her person were, to me, solely those of the sex, and by no means proceeding from the individual?
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But when the guard was relieved next morning, Pierre felt that for the new guard—both officers and men—he was not as interesting as he had been to his captors; and in fact the guard of the second day did not recognize in this big, stout man in a peasant coat the vigorous person who had fought so desperately with the marauder and the convoy and had uttered those solemn words about saving a child; they saw in him only No. 17 of the captured Russians, arrested and detained for some reason by order of the Higher Command.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So Otterburn having surrendered at discretion, which was hardly to be wondered at against such a crafty enemy, was now devoted to his conqueror and saw comparatively little of Eustace, who though distinctly annoyed at his defeat cloaked his real feelings caused by Otterburn's desertion under the guise of careless indifference, and either mooned dismally about alone or sought solace in the society of the Erringtons, who were now making preparations for their departure to England.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

Seneca, on the other side, as if there were no such thing as nature to be minded in a play, is always running after pompous expression, pointed sentences, and philosophical notions, more proper for the study than the stage: the Frenchman followed a wrong scent; and the Roman was absolutely at cold hunting.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

In the fall, cattle were slaughtered and salted for food during the winter because there was no more pasture for them.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

There be many husbands in the realm younger than he; and truly, I see no way but leaving him to his will, so soon only as we can be satisfied that it is no mere passing fantasy that swayeth him, but that his heart and mind are verily set and engaged therein.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

explanation, when he told I said, “No, my poor fellow; they me that for eight months he will do you as much good whether I had been committing the Gospels hear you them or not.”
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

My spirits were elevated to so uncommon a pitch by the birth of a lovely daughter, that they were by no means prepared for the succeeding scene; and they have been so overwhelmed that I sometimes hope it may be a dream out of which I wish to awake.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

LORD DEXTER is a man of fame, Most celebrated is his name; More precious far than gold that's pure, Lord Dexter live for evermore.
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

There were not many points for the artist in landscape, especially one of such moderate powers as Bee, and she was very anxious to finish this to present it, I need scarcely say, to Aubrey, as a memento of the place.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Here, being [254] now much pressed for time, they embarked on the nearest of the ships and, still in the belief that the Duchess of Durazzo was safe on board that of the Admiral, they gave the signal to depart and sailed out of the harbour followed, as they imagined, by the rest of the fleet; for it was now drawing on to night, and too dark for them to see clearly what was taking place in rear of them.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

Have not most people far too many friends?
— from Outings at Odd Times by Charles C. (Charles Conrad) Abbott