Mga pirsunáhi sa nátad sa kasinihan, Important personages in the movie world.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His eyes, making the round of the room—done over by Dallas with English mezzotints, Chippendale cabinets, bits of chosen blue-and-white and pleasantly shaded electric lamps—came back to the old Eastlake writing-table that he had never been willing to banish, and to his first photograph of May, which still kept its place beside his inkstand.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Sir Knight, I prythee tell me what money thou hast about thee.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I am very eager about this, as she and the Elector wish that I should knit in public next Thursday at the great gala concert.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

For progressions in thirds, the best method, from the standpoint of equality in tone is to use instruments of the same kind in pairs; for progressions in sixths instruments of different kinds are more suitable, but both courses are good and useful.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The Letters give full description of London Society—Lawyers—Judges—Visits to Lords Fitzwilliam, Leicester, Wharncliffe, Brougham—Association with Sydney Smith, Hallam, Macaulay, Dean Milman, Rogers, and Talfourd; also, a full Journal which Sumner kept in Paris.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

She’s got plenty of money, and even if she beats you down, it will be better if she knows I paid a big price.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

And, in like manner, my text tells us that if we wish to know all that it is possible for us here, amidst the clouds, and shadows, and darknesses, to know of that dear Lord, the path to such knowledge is plain.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

Alas, alas, the Working Aristocracy, admonished by Trades-unions, Chartist conflagrations, above all by their own shrewd sense kept in perpetual communion with the fact of things, will assuredly reform themselves, and a working world will still be possible:— but the fate of the Idle Aristocracy, as one reads its horoscope hitherto in Corn-Laws and such like, is an abyss that fills one with despair.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

Every night she gave much thought to the subject and every night she knelt in prayer before the ikon that hung in her bedroom, asking that light be given her as to her duty.
— from Our Little Roumanian Cousin by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

Money is at bottom of two kinds only: the first kind is an intermediate and equivalent merchandise, Coin ; and the second kind is Promises to pay this to a bearer on demand, Paper Money .
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

If he should kneel in pious prayer before the throne of grace, so he should humble himself before God at the life-union altar.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

These injure it in body and brightness, dispose it to dry more slowly, keep its place less firmly, and discolour the oil with which it is applied, as well as prevent it dissolving completely in boiling dilute potash-ley, a test by which pure white lead may be known.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Shortly before Trafalgar, the first lieutenant of a man-of-war, when making his rounds to see that all hands were at their guns, observed an Irish sailor kneeling in prayer: 'What!
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

As early as 1310, in the reign of Edward the Second, we find that in a parliament assembled at Kilkenny “it was agreed that none should keep idle people or kearn in time of peace, to live upon the poor of the country; but those which will have them shall keep them at their own charges, so that the free tenants and farmers be not charged with them.”
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir