As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

PANIS, Advocate, in Governing Committee, and Beaumarchais, confidant of Danton. PANTHEON, first occupant of.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Pray do you see yon jolly birds that are perched together, how fat, how plump, and in good case they look, with the income that Touraine yields us!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Thus the whole army was in good position and in good condition.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He thought chiefly of ways of fighting and conquering these people, and it grew clear that for him no practicable way was possible.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In short, I observed that the Desire of Victory, whetted with the little Prejudices of Party and Interest, generally carried the Argument to such an Height, as made the Disputants insensibly conceive an Aversion towards each other, and part with the highest Dissatisfaction on both Sides.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The sea, too, had risen, the vessel was rolling heavily, and everything was pitched about in grand confusion.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I also knew that the head of the press was a well-read man, and that the place abounded in good cheer and good society.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On the 18th of October Early was ready to move, and during the night succeeded in getting his troops in the rear of our left flank, which fled precipitately and in great confusion down the valley, losing eighteen pieces of artillery and a thousand or more prisoners.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The enemy advanced in rapid pursuit and in great confusion, believing that the whole American force was routed.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

This obedience must be prompt, and, in grave cases, where recourse must be had to the authority of the government, obedience must always be provisional.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

we will not retire; the day is fortunate—the planets are in good conjunction.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

They at first made a brisk discharge of their firearms on the enemy, then attacked them with their sabres, and made a great slaughter a considerable time, which obliged Comberland and his cavalrie to fly with precipitation and in great confusion; in so much that, if the Prince had been provided in a sufficient number of cavalrie to have taken advantage of the disorder, it is beyond question that the Duke of Comberland and the bulk of his cavalrie had been taken prisoners.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

If the magneto and spark plugs are in good condition and the engine does not run satisfactorily, the setting should be verified according to instructions previously given, and, if necessary, readjusted.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

All our freight that year arrived promptly and in good condition, which had never happened before.
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

A white flocculent precipitate forms if gelatin is present, and it gradually collects in a lump at the bottom.
— from Detection of the Common Food Adulterants by Edwin M. Bruce

Her head fell back; her mouth was grey and parched, her eyes had no longer sight; a shiver ran through the hardy frame that winter storms and summer droughts had bruised and scorched so long; and a passionless and immeasurable grief came on the brown, weary, age-worn face.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

“My first play” forms an era to most young persons, and is generally cherished among our more agreeable juvenile reminiscences: but the subject has been recently expatiated upon so delightfully and in so genial a spirit by Elia , as almost to make further comment “a wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

To whatever cause it was owing, the fever was much more violent here than in the other prizes, and it generally carried men off on the third or fourth day; and what is remarkable, the officers were affected by it in a greater proportion than the common men.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir