“That would be paying very dear for it,” said my little wife, laughing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[165] land was bought of the Indians for a nominal price, but it often became expensive enough in the end, since it proved very difficult for many of the settlers to obtain a clear title from the United States.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c. 668.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Hot and dry in the third degree, purges violently, dangerous for pregnant women.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The union of Utrecht, says another respectable writer, reposes an authority in the States-General, seemingly sufficient to secure harmony, but the jealousy in each province renders the practice very different from the theory.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But upon inquiry we shall find the chronology of this people very different from the representations which have been given.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

THE THIRD STORY Day the Third UNDER COLOUR OF CONFESSION AND OF EXCEEDING NICENESS OF CONSCIENCE, A LADY, BEING ENAMOURED OF A YOUNG MAN, BRINGETH A GRAVE FRIAR, WITHOUT HIS MISDOUBTING HIM THEREOF, TO AFFORD A MEANS OF GIVING ENTIRE EFFECT TO HER PLEASURE Pampinea being now silent and the daring and subtlety of the horsekeeper having been extolled by several of the company, as also the king's good sense, the queen, turning to Filomena, charged her follow on; whereupon she blithely began to speak thus, "I purpose to recount to you a cheat which was in very deed put by a fair lady upon a grave friar and which should be so much the more pleasing to every layman as these [—friars, to wit—], albeit for the most part very dull fools and men of strange manners and usances, hold themselves to be in everything both better worth and wiser than others, whereas they are of far less account than the rest of mankind, being men who, lacking, of the meanness of their spirit, the ability to provide themselves, take refuge, like swine, whereas they may have what to eat.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Had this been all, it might not, perhaps, have greatly signified; for when the lower classes alone complained, the court of France, separated as it was from the poor by the intervening classes of the gentry and the bourgeoisie, seldom listened to their voice; but unluckily, Mazarin had had the imprudence to attack the magistrates and had sold no less than twelve appointments in the Court of Requests, at a high price; and as the officers of that court paid very dearly for their places, and as the addition of twelve new colleagues would necessarily lower the value of each place, the old functionaries formed a union amongst themselves, and, enraged, swore on the Bible not to allow of this addition to their number, but to resist all the persecutions which might ensue; and should any one of them chance to forfeit his post by this resistance, to combine to indemnify him for his loss.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

|| Quo cum patefactus esset aditus, accessimus: | VII | apparebat in sepulcro epigramma, exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis fere.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The first step especially is felt to be a very difficult one; perhaps very debatable: for aught
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

This was called the first Trium'virate, by which we find the constitution weakened by a new interest which had not hitherto taken place, very different from that of the senate or the people, and yet dependent on both.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

The Kurds , who occupy the lofty mountainous region, intersected by deep valleys, which is situated between the immense table land of Persia and the plains of Mesopotamia, are a semi-barbarous people, very different from the descendants of the Medo-Persians, though also sprung from an Aryan root.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

Guarded as she was by piety, prudence, virtue, dignity, family, fortune, and a purity of heart that never woman before her boasted, what a real devil must he be (yet I doubt I shall make thee proud!) who could resolve to break through so many fences!
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

Dedicado a Don Bernadino Antonio de Pardinas Villar de Francos ...
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Her brows were bent in a frown of perplexity very different from the gay smile with which she had parted from her hostess.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

It implies a conception of democracy and its purpose very different from the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

I should be much less than your friend if I did not desire for you a position very different from that which necessity forced upon you.
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing