"The fathers of New England, endured incredible hardships in providing for themselves a home in the wilderness; and to protect themselves in the undisturbed enjoyment of rights, which they had purchased at so dear a rate, they sometimes adopted measures which, if tried by the more enlightened and liberal views of the present day, must at once be pronounced altogether unjustifiable.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In an encounter of the civil war against Cinna, one of Pompey’s soldiers having unawares killed his brother, who was of the contrary party, he immediately for shame and sorrow killed himself: and some years after, in another civil war of the same people, a soldier demanded a reward of his officer for having killed his brother.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The sharp hull driving on its way seemed to rise a few inches in succession through its whole length, as though it had become pliable, and settled down again rigidly to its work of cleaving the smooth surface of the sea.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

It might be imagined that men who sacrificed their friends, their family, and their native land to a religious conviction were absorbed in the pursuit of the intellectual advantages which they purchased at so dear a rate.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious patroness.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The practicable ways of combining them to form a complete concrete making plant are best illustrated by descriptions and records of work of actual plants, and such descriptions and records for each class of structure considered in this book are given in the following chapters and may be found by consulting the index.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

During the months immediately following on his mother's death, Raimundo, making a great effort, with the idea of being his sister's protector, had shown more manliness and firmness; but, as time went on, his nature reasserted itself, and he fell into his childish fancies and womanly susceptibilities again, in proportion as she developed a resolute, honest, and well-balanced character.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

The dried prunes are sure dry all right! Must have been put up about the time they dried them mummy things back in Egypt.
— from The Plunderer by Roy Norton

At one spot a pool of blood spread wide across the pavement, and still dripping and running sluggishly and thickly into and along the stone gutter, showed where at least one shell had caught more than brick and stone and tree, although now the square was deserted and empty of life.
— from Action Front by Boyd Cable

purchases can be made to much better advantage in Philadelphia, and sewing done at Roselands, where we have two accomplished seamstresses among the servants.
— from Mildred at Roselands A Sequel to Mildred Keith by Martha Finley

Gauja, Thiers, Mignet, Carrel, Chambolle, Peysse, Albert Stapfer, Dubochet and Rolle, of the National ; Leroux, Guizard, Dejean and de Rémusat, of the Globe ; Senty, Haussman, Dussart, Busoni, Barbaroux, Chalas, Billard, Baude and Coste, of the Temps ; Guyet, Moussette, Avenel, Alexis de Jussieu, Châtelain, Dupont and de la Pelouze, of the Courrier français ; Année, Cauchois-Lemaire and Évariste Dumoulin, of the Constitutionnel ; Sarrans junior, of the Courrier de Électeurs ; August Fabre and Ader, of the Tribune des départements ; Levasseur, Plagnol and Fazy, of the Révolution ; Larreguy and Bert, of the Journal du Commerce ; Léon Pillet, of the Journal de Paris ; Bohain and Roqueplan, of the Figaro ; Vaillant, of the Sylphe.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

Samarendra at once resigned his post and settled down at Ratnapur, where Rashbehári Babu had owned a house and the bulk of his estate was situated.
— from Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea

Deb plunged into the group delightedly, kissed them, teased them, tickled them, did everything a proper aunt should do; and Rose was in ecstasies.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

7 In thee my spring of life hath bid the while A rose unfold beyond the summer's best, The mystery of joy made manifest In love's self-answering and awakening smile, Whereby the lips in wonder reconcile Passion with peace, and show desire at rest,— A grace of silence by the Greek unguesst, That bloom'd to immortalize the Tuscan style: When first the angel-song that faith hath ken'd Fancy pourtray'd, above recorded oath Of Israel's God, or light of poem pen'd; The very countenance of plighted troth 'Twixt heaven and earth, where in one moment blend The hope of one and happiness of both. {191}
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

do wicked men purchase their present pleasures at so dear a rate as eternal torments, and do we envy their enjoyment of them so short a time?
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker