treasure of gold, treasury , El, VPs ; Æ, AO. goldhordhūs n. privy , WW 184 14 . goldhordian to collect treasure, hoard , Sc 173 12 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The documents, [94] too, from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and lay always before me, even in sleep; for they are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket, the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house, greetings, relations, debts and credits, the influence of character, the nature and endowment of all men.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who inhabit the Olympian bower My son forgot not, in exalted power; And heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, Even to the ashes of the just is kind.
— from The Iliad by Homer

These demands, however, grew at last so frequent and exorbitant, that my father by slow degrees opened his ears to the accounts which he received from many quarters of my present behaviour, and which my mother failed not to echo very faithfully and loudly; adding, `Ay, this is the fine gentleman, the scholar who doth so much honour to his family, and is to be the making of it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I was aware of the extraordinary vegetative power of these plants, which have been known to creep along the bottom of the great ocean, and stop the advance of large ships.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

There was, in fact, even in the earlier Vedic age, a caste language, such as is to be found more or less wherever a literature has grown up; but in India it has been more strongly marked than in any other country.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The elder Victor is prudently silent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These four poems rounded off the story of the "Iliad", and it only remained to connect this enlarged version with the "Odyssey".
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

It had about 10 readers per issue until the day (in January 1996) when the electronic version of Wired Magazine created a link to it.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Whatever the shape and use of ancient Eastern instruments—having something in common with the European Violin—may have been, the slight apparent affinity is accidental, and no real relationship exists between the European and the Asiatic Fiddle.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

With this start, they could get into the eastern valleys before the whites were alive to their mischief.
— from Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

Out of that cloud came a cry in the enraged voice of the Texan, with words which made all plain— “Ye darned Creole cuss!
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

As the education of modern girls of fashion chiefly aims at making them either very fast or very slow, it is not to be wondered at that men find it hard to realize their ideals among their equals in position.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

With a pleasant smile his popular face, he gave a cordial greeting to every visitor.
— from By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna Sara Wisthaler

And yet—one can but try"— 203 Chapter XXII I t was mentioned generally, at various sewing-classes and other mild functions during Lent, that Julian Gerard was very attentive, all of a sudden, to Elizabeth Van Vorst.
— from The Ordeal of Elizabeth by Anonymous

In addition to their compulsory attendance at the Central Criminal Court, the aldermen are called upon to exercise various other magisterial functions, including the inspection and management of prisons.
— from The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by William Ferneley Allen

Der Tod entbindet von erzwungnen Pflichten —Death releases from enforced duties.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.