He, taking some of the officers and others of a character to be relied upon, came forward.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

I think the U States are indebted to me another Uniform coat, for that of which I have disposed on this occasion was but
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset—a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I should think your uncle could fix it up.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord’s policy of insurance.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It may be remarked by the way, that Englishmen are in peculiarly unfavourable circumstances for attempting to judge what is or is not natural, not merely to women, but to men, or to human beings altogether, at least if they have only English experience to go upon: because there is no place where
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

For there are people who in opposite circumstances do not act consistently: they have the utmost contempt for pleasure, but in pain they are too sensitive; they are indifferent to glory, but they are crushed by disgrace; and even in their inconsistency they show no great consistency.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If the palol has to cross a river, he may not pass by a bridge, but must use a ford, and it appears that he may only use certain fords.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up [coll.], fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend &c. 809; put down, lay down. discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

When they heard that the lion had roused and shaken himself and had unaccountably come forth of his own accord, they hastened to the state capital to renew their offers.
— from Coniston — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

" "But—what can I do to compensate you for what you have given up," cried Fenton.
— from The Amateur Diplomat: A Novel by Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram) Costain

"Here is an unnecessary change from the second person singular to the second person plural.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

A cuckoo in a great poplar fluted solemnly and richly as we murmured past; the world was mostly hidden from us, but now and then a church tower looked gravely over the bank, and ran beside us for a time, or the lowing of cattle came softly from a pasture, or I heard the laughter of unseen children from a cottage garth.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

Then having piled the three on the fourth, he scattered filth over them to express his utter contempt for my devices.
— from Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen by Ernest Thompson Seton

Indeed, he was regarded by many people as the greatest failure of all the Union commanders, for he had lost more men in sixty days than McClellan had lost in all his campaigns without getting any nearer to Richmond, and by the end of July another lamentable failure was recorded against him.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knocking at the gate in Macbeth should produce any effect, direct or reflected.
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

This temperature is the so-called "upper critical" for this steel.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

which throughout almost all the north is the usual cry for expressing popular satisfaction.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various