Another popular belief is that the ends of the rainbow rest upon the earth, and that if one could dig at the exact spot covered by one end of it, an untold treasure would be found there.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I scribbled a note to my neighbor, rushed upstairs to explain the matter to my wife, and joined Holmes upon the door-step.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[57] consequences of his volitions:—or, more strictly, the volitions themselves in which such results were so intended, since we do not consider that a man is relieved from moral blame because his wrong intention remains unrealised through external causes.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Not only half the old subsidy, but the second twenty-five per cent. is retained upon the exportation of all French goods.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

as well as we could understand the indians they informed us that they had seen Drewyer and Shannon and that they would not return untill the expiration of two days; the cause why Drewyer and Shannon had not returned with these men we are at a loss to account for.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The man who had imposed himself on us as a relation of the twisted hair rejoined us this evening we found him an impertinent proud supercilious fellow and of no kind of rispectability in the nation, we therefore did not indulge his advances towards a very intimate connection.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The Truth of it is, since my residing in these Parts I have seen and heard innumerable Instances of young Heirs and elder Brothers, who either from their own reflecting upon the Estates they are born to, and therefore thinking all other Accomplishments unnecessary, or from hearing these Notions frequently inculcated to them by the Flattery of their Servants and Domesticks, or from the same foolish Thought prevailing in those who have the Care of their Education, are of no manner of use but to keep up their Families, and transmit their Lands and Houses in a Line to Posterity.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"Mr. Tangle," says the Lord High Chancellor, latterly something restless under the eloquence of that learned gentleman.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She was becoming a solitary, cheerless woman, cherishing in silent sadness one great hope; a hope with which strangers might not intermeddle—which was foolishness to her own nearest friends—which might never be realized upon this earth—nevertheless a hope in which her whole nature was concentrated—the very essence and aim of her being.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

As soon as you can get well within sight of your lost hawk, the live lure may be relied upon to effect her capture, until she has been out several days—in the case of eyesses for at least a week.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

I hadn't ever met up with such aristocratic stock as I did then but I tchuned right up to 'em
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Beginning with the common-place and familiar, and therefore credible, with the thin end of the wedge, in fact, a wise narrator will advance to the rather unusual, the extremely rare, the undeniably startling, and so arrive at statements which, without this discreet and gradual initiation, a hasty reader might, justly or unjustly, dismiss as “great swingeing falsehoods”.
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

[Pg 204] To ascertain if all was in order, the ensign had his boat rowed up to each of the targets in turn.
— from The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice by John Henry Goldfrap

But this dire impossibility of escape was in the end dreadfully retaliated upon the emperor; persecutors and traitors were found every where: and the vindictive or the ambitious subject found himself as omnipresent as the jealous or the offended emperor.
— from The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

That was at the very time when about eighty Bishops put out their strong protestation that they had come to Rome under the erroneous impression, deliberately suggested by the Curia , that the question of infallibility would not be brought before
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

Suffice it to say, that the whole was always conscientiously applied to the purposes intended by their donors, except, that under an Act of Parliament passed in 1777 the original parish workhouse was built upon that part of Butt’s Field where Kensington Gate now stands, and the Act provided that the then existing rents of the three estates, amounting to £54, should be applied to the apprenticing of poor boys, but that any further rents that might be obtained beyond that sum should be applied in aid of the parish rates until the expense incurred in erecting the workhouse should be discharged.
— from The Endowed Charities of Kensington: By Whom Bequeathed, and How Administered by Edward Morton Daniel

No sooner did the pistol-shot ring upon their ears than every man seized his gun, hastily examined the priming, and scrambled up the bank, which at that spot was very steep.
— from The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Of the modality of the judgement upon the sublime in nature 130 General remark upon the exposition of the aesthetical reflective Judgement 132 Deduction of [pure] aesthetical judgements 150 § 30.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant