Saggio is possibly the same word, or rather may have been confounded with it, but the saggio was a recognised Venetian weight equal to 1/6 of an ounce.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: ‘My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“If you knew,” she went on, raising to the ceiling her beautiful eyes, in which a tear was trembling, “all that I had dreamed!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

After the withdrawal of a play that has been only a short time on the stage, we often read this comment, "An artistic success, but a financial failure."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The case is not the same with our reasonings from the works of nature.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

With him come a Tribe, all Brothers and Sisters it seems; while others, really such, are deemed no Relations.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Sometimes minorities feel themselves emotionally excluded; at other times private temperamental differences make some persons skeptic while others remain believers.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

By her entreaties it was at last agreed that the king should promise to let Earl Ragnvald go in peace from Svithjod, but that he should never again appear in the king's presence, or come back to Svithjod while Olaf reigned.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I think differently,” said Pyotr Stepanovitch, walking on resolutely.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because the neutralization plan to provide against the Philippines being annexed by some other Power in case we ever give them their independence would, if successfully worked out, reduce by that much the possible area of war, and be a distinct step in the direction of universal peace, it is certainly worthy of careful consideration by the enlightened judgment of the Congress and the world.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Altitude of the Sun made it 56° 9' 00" Lat 41° 42' 34" and I took one man and went on Shore the man Killed an Elk I fired 4 times at one & did not Kill him, my ball being Small I think was the reason, the misqutors So bad in the Praries that with the assistance of a bush I could not Keep them out of my eyes, the boat turned Several tims to day on Sand bars—in my absenc the boat passed a Island 2 miles above the litte Scouex R on the upper point of the Isld Some hundreds of Pelicans were Collected, they left 3 fish on the Sand which was verry fine, Capt Lewis Killed one & took his dimentions, I joined the boat and we Camped on the S S. worthe of remark that Snakes are not plenty in this part of the Missourie H2 anchor [Lewis, August 8, 1804] August 8th 1804 we had seen but a few aquatic fouls of any kind on the river since we commenced our journey up the Missouri, a few geese accompanied by their young, the wood duck which is common to every part of this country & crains of several kinds which will be discribed in their respective places—this day after we had passed the river Souix as called by Mr. MacKay (or as is more properly called the stone river,) I saw a great number of feathers floating down the river those feathers had a very extraordinary appearance as they appeared in such quantities as to cover pretty generally sixty or seventy yards of the breadth of the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

he said, staring blankly at her as she went on rapidly: "Yes, I want you, and have come to tell you so.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Meanwhile the thievish Border clans, especially the Armstrongs, were assailed by hangings and banishments, and Ulster was planted by Scottish settlers, willing or reluctant, attracted by promise of lands, or planted out, that they might not give trouble on the Border.
— from A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

Phil’s side went out readily enough, one hitting to pitcher, one on a little fly to second, one on strikes.
— from Making the Nine by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

The seraglio, where the late Turkish governor resided, is described by the same authority, as a large quadrangular building, two stories high, and in sad want of repair; it has a large court-yard, enclosed by walls twenty-five feet high.
— from Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive by Franz von Löher

We have no means of learning how many of the Saviors were of royal blood, as the genealogy of some of them is not given.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Yet a struggle of that sort, however momentary, would evolve mournful issues; and it is now a matter of pressing need to keep off the approach of such an event, while measures of precaution are still within our reach.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

It is well enough to know how to defend one's self when occasion requires, but such occasions occur but rarely.
— from The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer