She conjectured—and in the conjecture she was nearly right—that Lady Caroline had sacrificed her a little in order to smooth over things with her daughter: that she had represented Janetta as resolved upon going, resolved upon neglecting Margaret and not complying with her requests; and that Margaret was a little offended with her in consequence.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
unmanned no more Recall the strength was thine of yore.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
Toward God's great mysteries, oh, let me move Unstainèd till I die In speech or doing; for the Laws thereof Are holy, walkers upon ways above, Born in the far blue sky; Their father is Olympus uncreate; No man hath made nor told Their being; neither shall Oblivion set vv.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles
Then go, sir: I'll urge nothing more to detain you.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith
But he set up no monopoly of the general attention, or the conversation.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
In the present business in which she was engaged, the ship's general model and rig appeared to have undergone no material change from their original warlike and Froissart pattern.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
walay unsaunsa no more anything.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
And I not strip the gilding off a knave, Unplaced, unpensioned, no man’s heir, or slave?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope
Limpiyu tan-áwun ang ugis nga manuk, White-feathered chickens look clean.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
If they sold us no more rice
— from The Truth about Opium Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade by William H. Brereton
" After I'd peeked into about a dozen box cars, and dug up nothin' more encouraging than a couple of boozy 'boes, I begun to think my calculations was all wrong.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
The shell is under half an inch long, and usually not more than a quarter of an inch.
— from Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Edward George Britton Moss
After this search they would pay us no more visits, and the stowaway was safe, and could go on deck at night for fresh air.
— from The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W. H. (William Henry) Davies
127 Sarmiento, page 235, quotes this specimen of Juan de la Enzina’s Disparates :— Anoche do madrugada, Ya despues de medio dia, Vi venir en romeria Una nube muy cargada &
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek
Therein was neither highway nor byway, nor wood-reeve nor way-warden; never came chapman thence into Utterhay; no man of Utterhay was so poor or so bold that he durst raise the hunt therein; no outlaw durst flee thereto; no man of God had such trust in the saints that he durst build him a cell in that wood.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
"Even when the first burst of panic was over, the sudden rise of wages consequent on the enormous diminution in the supply of free labor, though accompanied by a corresponding rise in the price of food, rudely disturbed the course of industrial employments; harvests rotted on the ground, and fields were left untilled, not merely from scarcity of hands, but from the strife which now for the first time revealed itself between Capital and Labor" (Green).
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry
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