Hither Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I home and advised about business, and so after an hour’s examining the state of the Navy debts lately cast up, I took coach to Sir Philip Warwick’s, but finding Sir G. Carteret there I did not go in, but directly home, again, it raining hard, having first of all been with Creed and Mrs. Harper about a cook maid, and am like to have one from Creed’s lodging.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Southern white man says that it is impossible for a voluntary alliance to exist between a white woman and a colored man, and therefore, the fact of an alliance is a proof of force.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Possibly it was this great power of vision which was temporarily communicated to the eyes of the holy Job while yet in this mortal body, when he says to God, "I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee: wherefore I abhor myself, and melt away, and count myself dust and ashes;" [1036] although there is no reason why we should not understand this of the eye of the heart, of which the apostle says, "Having the eyes of your heart illuminated."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He has lost four or five vessels, and suffered by three or four bankruptcies; but it is not for me, although I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Their succession to the throne of Hanover renders them useless as a precedent, inasmuch as their right to arms and coronet must be derived from Hanover and its laws, and not Page 365 {365} from this country.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Information was sent to Basayya, the head of the mutt, and a council meeting summoned, at which it was decided that Chikayya should have his head cut off.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Let fall on me her fate, and also crush me,— One ruin whelm both her and me!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Brutes surely never use these abstractions, and civilized men use them in most various amounts. Causal influence, again!
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

“Not at all!” cried Miss Crawford with alacrity.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The funnel is put away, and a cap, more ornamental and a thousand times more easy, is elevated to the place of honor, to the great satisfaction of the wearer.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

The Congress of the wash-house agreed to adopt and maintain an attitude of armed and watchful neutrality for the present, only proceeding to open hostilities in case of need, when concerted action would be taken according as circumstances might require.
— from Dry Fish and Wet: Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

The contracting parties employed in their negotiations one Aminchand, a Calcutta merchant of considerable wealth, great address, unbounded cunning, and absolutely without a conscience.
— from Rulers of India: Lord Clive by G. B. (George Bruce) Malleson

Some [Pg 90] idea of the depths to which Colombia had sunk through a long course of bad administration and corruption may be gathered from a passage in the official address of Dr. Marroquin on his becoming vice-president of Colombia in 1898.
— from The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon (John Saxon) Mills

He had only one other point to urge, and that was, that Monsieur Val, who, as he had understood, was himself a Protestant—the doctor bowed—would make arrangements with some kind and benevolent Protestant clergyman, through whom spiritual advice and consolation might be secured for the invalid lady; who had especial need, Robert added, gravely, of such advantages.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A desperate struggle was imminent, in which the Aztecs, pitted against all central Mexico, by victory would have grasped the coveted prize of imperial power, or crushed as were the Tepanecs before them by a coalition of nations, would have yielded their place in the confederacy to some less dangerous rival.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

The latter two professed a great and eternal attachment to each other, but Mrs Valetta disposed of their friendship thus: “Mrs Skeffy and Anna Cleeve make me tired.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley