"My dear," she said one night, "you have so much sense and you look at the world in a quiet manner so superior to your time of life that it is a comfort to me to talk to you about these family matters of mine.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

'You think I am mad like my mother, and you have come to question me,' she said.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

— N. quantity, magnitude; size &c. (dimensions) 192; amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“Give me the life, then, of the queen, my stepmother,” said he.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

To solve this question, Mr Swiveller summoned the handmaid and ascertained that Miss Sophy Wackles had indeed left the letter with her own hands; and that she had come accompanied, for decorum’s sake no doubt, by a younger Miss Wackles; and that on learning that Mr Swiveller was at home and being requested to walk upstairs, she was extremely shocked and professed that she would rather die.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

hinsichtlich der Ware ergreifen to take action in respect of the goods Maßnahmen zur Arbeitseinsparung industrial engineering Maßstab scale Maßstab yardstick Maßstab für die Einschätzung rating scale Maßstab für die Einschätzung scale of rating Maßstab für die Güte measure of quality Maßstab; Skala scale Material material Materialbearbeitungszeit materials handling time Materialbedarf material requirements Materialeinsparung saving of material Materialentnahmekarte material requisition card Materialentnahmekarte; Materialentnahmeschein material requisition card Materialermüdung fatigue of material Materialermüdung machine fatigue
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Without precisely explaining what this qualification meant, she subsided, whenever she mentioned the subject, into such a mysterious and important state, and had such visions of wealth and dignity in perspective, that (vague and clouded though they were)
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Qualis mundi statis supra lunam semper serenus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

33. 98 Aut sua voluntate aut legis multa profecti sunt: quam multam si sufferre voluissent, manere in civitate potuissent.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Suddenly, with a quick movement, she started violently back, as if some frightful apparition had risen up before her.
— from Prince Zilah — Volume 2 by Jules Claretie

Like him, he is of quite markedly small stature.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

" "Powerlessness, with you, has queer manifestations," she said.
— from The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott

'When people ask me,' said Lord Carteret, 'how I governed Ireland, I say that I pleased Dr. Swift, " quæsitam meritis sume superbiam .
— from The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis

She was surprised; but quite mechanically she swam beside me.
— from The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown