Then home to dinner, where W. Hewer dined with us, and he and I after dinner to discourse of Carcasses business, wherein I apparently now do manage it wholly against my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, like a false rogue, shrinking out of the collar, Sir J. Minnes, afoot, being easily led either way, and Sir W. Batten, a malicious fellow that is not able to defend any thing, so that the whole odium must fall on me, which I will therefore beware how I manage that I may not get enemies to no purpose.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As we came in sight, we thronged tumultuously to the vessel's side, and bent eager, loving eyes on the snowy marble front, and white towering steeple of our nation's Capitol.
— from Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger

Tales of terror in little Bermuda had a bad enough local effect, but to have them spread abroad, to influence adversely the tourist trade upon which Bermuda’s very existence depended—that presaged economic catastrophe.
— from The White Invaders by Ray Cummings

[ref.116] ( 1 , 2 ) Rosenzweig, M. R.; Krech, D.; and Bennett, E. L.: Effect of Pentobarbital Sodium on Adaptive Behavior in the Rat.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

At bedtime Edred lighted Elfrida’s candle for her, and she picked up the matches for him when he dropped them.
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

After dispatching this note, I waited in almost breathless expectation, looking every moment to see Mr. Paralette enter.
— from Lizzy Glenn; Or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur