And by and by in comes my father, and we supped and talked and were merry, but being weary and sleepy my wife and I to bed without talking with my father anything about our business. 19th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The poet's bright, fond memories of love, youth and beauty are but the funeral torches shedding their light on this tomb, or to modify the image a little, they are the flowers that bloom on it, watered with tears and fed by a bleeding heart.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

That being done Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the morning, and then I to the ‘Change, and there got away by pretence of business with my uncle Wight to put off Creed, whom I had invited to dinner, and so home, and there found Madam Turner, her daughter The., Joyce Norton, my father and Mr. Honywood, and by and by come my uncle Wight and aunt.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the short term, as consultants, we'll also be affected by the growth of online services through the Internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In giving and accepting battle at Borodinó, Kutúzov acted involuntarily and irrationally.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

HERALD We are broken, and bent double, Limp like men carrying lanthorns in great winds About the city.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

In clouds they came, and pinged and buzzed and bit till we were nearly mad.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

For the first minute she felt uncomfortable, then she opened a book and began briskly and rapidly translating as usual: “‘Oh, young gentleman, don’t tear those flowers in my garden which I want to be giving to my ill daughter. . . .’
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If a few of the wealthy absentee landlords, who are the worst offenders, could be got within the jurisdiction of the city, and by arrest be compelled to employ proper overseers, it would be a proud day for New York.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

He now blew his horn, which was answered by a blast from Glenn, who soon came up to announce his own success in bringing down the largest buck in the party, and to congratulate his man on his truly remarkable achievement.
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

I. Literature.—The general character of the literature of the school appears as the necessary consequence of the state of affairs brought about by the fall of Greek nationality and independence.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In the afternoon Caleb was standing on the top of the down looking towards the village, when he spied at a great distance the old man coming out to the hills, and by and by he could make out that he had a sack on his back and a spade in his hand.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The departure of so large a company left quite a blank at Bridesdale.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

I remember meeting a man on the veldt in South Africa bronzed and bearded, who came to me and said that he had been at school with one of my name.
— from My Adventures as a Spy by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

The peculiar temper of the wire has a great influence on the piano's keeping in tune, strings breaking, &c., and, as the quality cannot always be ascertained but by actual experiment, much is condemned after trial, and the perfect only used.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, January, 1854 by Various

"Across the sleeping furrows I call the buried seed, And blade and bud and blossom Awaken at my need.
— from Later Poems by Bliss Carman