You might persuade them that some current estimates as to the amount to be got out of Germany were quite fantastic.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Nor were they slow in granting his request; for they sent him Bishop Aidan, a man of singular gentleness, piety, and moderation; having a zeal of God, but not fully according to knowledge; for he was wont to keep Easter Sunday according to the custom of his country, which we have before so often mentioned, 294 from the fourteenth to the twentieth of the moon; the northern province of the Scots, and all the nation of the Picts, at [pg 139] that time still celebrating Easter after that manner, and believing that in this observance they followed the writings of the holy and praiseworthy Father Anatolius.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

[Mr. Rockhill writes ( Rubruck , p. 104): "The same custom existed among the Fijians, I believe.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

" In the fourth case, the word acquires, through association, some of the same causal efficacy as the object.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The boy went down, and there sat Clever Elsie and the girl both weeping together.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I am well informed, that for more than a twelvemonth it has been believed in Baltimore, generally, that Burr was engaged in some criminal enterprise, and that Luther Martin knew all about it.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Needless to say Captain Eri agreed to this plan with alacrity.
— from Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Similar conditions exist along the Sierra Nevada range of California, and to some extent placer mining has gone on under immense beds of lava, by a process of tunneling beneath the volcanic rock.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

Other nations have in art a permanent and accessible refreshment, which prevents life from being wholly prosaic; the humblest dweller on English soil can enter a time-hallowed and beautiful cathedral; the poorest rustic in Italy can feel the honest pride of a distinctive festal attire; the veriest clod-hopper in Germany can soften the rigours of poverty by music; the London apprentice may wander once a week amid the venerable beauties of Hampton Court; and the Parisian shopkeeper may kindle pride of country by reading the pictorial history of France at Versailles.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

He hath seen notable things abroad—" "Which, he more than hints," said Nicholas, "will lower the value of those manuscripts this fair damozel has so couthly enriched; and that he hopes, ere long, to show the Englishers how to make fifty, a hundred,—nay even five hundred exemplars of the choicest book, in a much shorter time than a scribe would take in writing out two or three score pages in a single copy."
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Nothing sentimental, personal, and voluntary, nothing sporadic and spasmodic can ever accomplish that.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

We shall conquer Europe, and then return in peace, I feel assured, without encountering the famine which you dread so much, or any other great calamity."
— from Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Larger appropriations by the Government to establish an adequate system of common-school education, until every Indian child is enabled to attend school, compulsory education and the continued support to contract schools, and additional facilities for securing lands in severalty to the Indians, were endorsed.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 02, February, 1891 by Various

[Pg 282] who still considered Edward as the rightful king, and he knew very well that, if any of these were to obtain possession of Edward's person, it would enable them to act vigorously in his name, and to organize perhaps a powerful party for the support of his claims.
— from Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott