So home, and by and by comes Mr. Hill and Andrews, and sung together long and with great content.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So the little Pig went off before the time, as usual, and got to the Fair, and bought a butter churn, and was on his way home with it when he saw the Wolf coming.
— from The Story of the Three Little Pigs by L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) Brooke

The Condition of Balder’s Release In vain Hermod informed his brother that he had come to redeem him; Balder shook his head sadly, saying that he knew he must remain in his cheerless abode until the last day should come, but he implored Hermod to take Nanna back with him, as the home of the shades was no place for such a bright and beautiful creature.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Thence home, whither, by agreement, by and by comes Mercer and Gayet, and two gentlemen with them, Mr. Monteith and Pelham, the former a swaggering young handsome gentleman, the latter a sober citizen merchant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So home to dinner, and by and by comes Mr. Creed, lately come from the Downes, and dined with me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up, and by and by comes my uncle Thomas, to whom I paid L10 for his last half year’s annuity, and did get his and his son’s hand and seal for the confirming to us Piggott’s mortgage, which was forgot to be expressed in our late agreement with him, though intended, and therefore they might have cavilled at it, if they would.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I then crossed one of the mongrel barb-fantails with a mongrel barb-spot, and they produced a bird of as beautiful a blue colour, with the white loins, double black wing-bar, and barred and white-edged tail-feathers, as any wild rock-pigeon!
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He promptly refused; for, having sent a messenger to Colonel Cruger at Ninety-Six, on the morning when the Americans appeared before Augusta, Brown confidently expected relief from that quarter.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Bright , feeling peacefully inclined, said he should like all war-questions to be met and decided by a similar enemy; and, being asked by Cobden "What enemy?"—he eloquently replied, "A- n-emine contradicente ."
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

The sea beyond her lay as blue as blue could be, what with the crimson streak that came zigzag on both sides of her shadow, and gleamed along the smooth troughs, taking a crest or two to dance on by the way; and what with the rough of it near hand, where the tops of the dark waves ran hither and thither in broad white flakes, we surging heavily over them.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

“A beetle, a beetle,” cries Sonya, pointing to a beetle running across the table.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

2. ‘A bed, a bed,’ Clark Sanders said, ‘A bed, a bed, for you and I:’ ‘Fye no, fye no,’ the lady said, ‘Until the day we married be.
— from Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

It was first acquired by a British company in 1815, and it is stated that it yielded five or six million pounds sterling of gold.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

Obviously only the richest students could buy any great number of books, and, equally obviously, every student needed to use them, bought what he could, borrowed the rest, and became a book collector for the rest of his life.
— from Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton