If this standard should once be departed from, and questionable incidents resorted to, instead of obtaining truth, we shall probably fall into error.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

I found that even a single chapter for Italy was quite inadequate and that the Teutonic countries of themselves required another chapter even for a quite incomplete record of their scholarly achievements.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

"You can not get all three for a quarter," I replied.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts

The truth is, that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella referred the plans of the bold Genoese to a council of scientists and ecclesiastical dignitaries, which was held in the Dominican Monastery of Salamanca, Columbus being present.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Moreover he had forgotten to remove the Token from his finger, and Quain instantly remarked it and demanded an explanation.
— from The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

Tad found a quarter inch rope.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska; Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass by Frank Gee Patchin

Then——" "Pardon, senors!" exclaimed the lad in the carriage, and then followed a question in rapid Spanish.
— from Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers by Howard Roger Garis

In general, so far as questions in regard to lending on interest, to giving testimony, and to marriage relations were concerned, Rashi held the apostate to be the same as the Jew.
— from Rashi by Maurice Liber

The earliest specimen is a reading desk, presented by the Mikado, with a slope for a book much resembling an ordinary bookrest, but charmingly decorated with lacquer in landscape subjects on the flat surfaces, while the smaller parts are diapered with flowers and quatrefoils in relief of lac and gold.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield