The pay proceeds very rapidly (the calculation, roll-signing, &c., having been arranged beforehand.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Madame du Pompadour. ‘Very,’ replied the count; ‘but those of his grandsons surpassed it.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

A Pox vpo’ referring to Commiſsioners , I’had rather heare that it were paſt the ſeales: Your Courtiers moue ſo Snaile-like i’ your Buſineſſe .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

[360] The parliament vigorously resisted the concordat.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

The ring of pride in the piping voice reached the Colonel's heart.
— from A Little Dusky Hero by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

The weight of evidence seems, at the moment, to be on the side of the biologists; but I am willing to [Pg v] reopen the case at any time, although I am, above all, a man of the open air, of the plains and the mountains, and do not intend to identify myself with any branch of metapsychical research.
— from The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

'Was his court very brilliant?' inquired Madame du Pompadour. 'Very,' replied the Count; 'but those of his grandsons surpassed it.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay

Æschylus, the Greek tragic poet, who died in the 69th year of his age, B.C. 456, in Prometheus Vinctus , refers to cave dwellers in a way that indicates that even then they belonged to a dateless antiquity.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

Here perhaps I may remark that the hump has given rise to some strange but prevalent views respecting the Camel.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood