He expects that in due time it is to be restored to him, and that, in the mean time, the borrower is to pay him a certain annual rent for the use of it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

VIII, 12.—Thence they proceeded heedlessly against Camarina and came into a region where an ambuscade had already been set.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

He learned to play heavily at cards and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his allowance, that he might settle his debts of honor.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Soon after his arrival Prince Andrew, as a gentleman of the chamber, presented himself at court and at a levee.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

THE REAL PHILOSOPHERS, HOWEVER, ARE COMMANDERS AND LAW-GIVERS; they say: "Thus SHALL it be!"
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The nineteen propositions here announced contain a brief but succinct view of the progress of Freemasonry from its origin in the early ages of the world, simply as a system of religious philosophy, through all the modifications to which it was submitted in the Jewish and Gentile races, until at length it was developed in its present perfected form.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Poverty, humility, and chastity are dangerous and slanderous ideals; but like poisons, which are useful cures in the case of certain diseases, they were also necessary in the time of the Roman Empire.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The former was engaged in the administration of the affairs of state in his own country, and for some time espoused the party of the people; he afterwards contracted a friendship with Murena, with whom he fled, and with whom he was captured, on the discovery of the conspiracy against Augustus Cæsar; but he established his innocence, and was set at liberty by Cæsar.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The privations and toil incident to country practice half a century ago are scarcely imagined now.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

He was rude to her, seldom paid her a compliment, and never made love to her.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

From up in the clouds, very faint and little, came the sound of a mouth-organ playing the wander-tune of romance: “I’ve been ship-wrecked off Patagonia, Home and Colonia Antipodonia; I’ve shot cannibals, Funny-looking animals, Top-knot coons.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

It was in the spring of 1727 that there returned from the Levant to the village of Meduegna, near Belgrade, one Arnod Paole, who, in a few years of military service and varied adventure, had amassed enough to purchase him a cottage, and an acre or two of land in his native place, where he gave out he meant to pass the remainder of his days.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

He would have gone his way, still believing himself to be a Bayard, a Galahad, or any other of those simple dreamers who put honor and chivalry above and before all other things.
— from Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath

He placed himself as carefully as possible upon the couch by the fire, and his daughter tucked him up in an old plaid shawl which had lain folded upon it.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Each panel has a cinquefoiled arch with a crocketed gablet and pinnacles on either side.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street