He, therefore, chose commissioners by lot to provide for the restitution of what had been seized by violence during the war, and others with extraordinary jurisdiction to decide causes belonging to the centumviri, and reduce them to as small a number as possible, for the dispatch of which, otherwise, the lives of the litigants could scarcely allow sufficient time.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

You see, it is very difficult to keep an account of a business matter of that kind.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

“ Now William would be able to keep himself, which would make a vast difference to his uncle, for it was unknown how much he had cost his uncle; and, indeed, it would make some difference in her presents too.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To propitiate various demons, the days following the races are devoted to cock-fighting, in which hundreds of birds may take part.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

But his face, when he heard it, showed an amazement which was very different to that look of sentimental wonder which the countenances of the sisters wore.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Their speculation had not paid; but on the very day that their privilege ran out that native found the $2,000,000-diamond and handed it over to them.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Then, moreover, at last, her nerves settling the question, the choice was simply imposed by the violence done to her taste—to whatever was left of that high principle, at least, after the free and reckless meeting, for months, of great drafts and appeals.
— from The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

But now the servant only brought a line From Vivian Dangerfield to Roy Montaine, “Dear Sir, and Friend”—in letters bold and plain, Written on cream-white paper, so it ran: “It is the will and pleasure of Miss Trevor, And therefore doubly so a wish of mine, That you shall honour me next New Year Eve, My wedding hour, by standing as best man.
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The ass not rarely has very distinct transverse bars on its legs, like those on the legs of the zebra: it has been asserted that these are plainest in the foal, and from inquiries which I have made, I believe this to be true.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

I had at that time unfortunately overlooked a separate page written during my second visit to Valparaiso, describing the shells now in my possession from the 557 feet hill; I had not then unpacked my collections, and had not reconsidered the obvious appearance of greater antiquity of the shells from the greater heights, nor had I at that time discovered the marine origin of the earth in which many of the shells are packed.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

But he bore it with a meekness very different to what he had shown while in the Acordada.
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

There was nothing very dreadful to face, however.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

His own contemporaries, and others, who if not exactly contemporaries have at least as good right to be heard as a writer of our own time, have left very different testimony.
— from Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris

; when the sloop-of-war immediately went round, also, heading up towards these very vessels, determined to cut off the lugger, even if it were to be done by venturing within range of the shot of her protectors.
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

As the organization and requirements of society changes, by the adoption of what is called civilization, the condition of woman becomes very different to what it was originally.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick