He told me many fine things, and so we parted, and I home and hard to work a while at the office and then home and till midnight about settling my last month’s accounts wherein I have been interrupted by public business, that I did not state them two or three days ago, but I do now to my great joy find myself worth above L5600, for which the Lord’s name be praised!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I consider your Laevsky a blackguard; I do not conceal it, and I am perfectly conscientious in treating him as such.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I gave a little comedy, after my own manner entitled ‘les Prisouniers de Guerre’, which I wrote after the disasters of the French in Bavaria and Bohemia: I dared not either avow this comedy or show it, and this for the singular reason that neither the King of France nor the French were ever better spoken of nor praised with more sincerity of heart than in my piece though written by a professed republican, I dared not declare myself the panegyrist of a nation, whose maxims were exactly the reverse of my own.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But what can human misery do, or how or where can it reach forth, so as to attain blessedness, if divine authority does not lead it?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

More often than not, the guest of honor was an absent-minded old lady, or celebrity, who very likely was vaguely saying to herself, "Oh, my! are these people never going home?" until by and by it dawned upon her that the obligation was her own!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And, when he had won the city, he burnt the temple and beat it down, and all the city, and took the Jews and did them to death—1,100,000; and the others he put in prison and sold them to servage,—thirty for one penny; for they said they bought Jesu for thirty pennies, and he made of them better cheap when he gave thirty for one penny.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Like English "thus," "so," tiel may modify adjectives and other adverbs, by indicating degree: Ĉu oni tiel helpas amikon?
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Thrasymachus having made his speech wants to run away, but is detained by the company.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"Well, yes; the caretaker of our flats down on the first floor of the next house lost a child last week by a belief in dip'thery.
— from The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

'Bel and the gods of Akkad leave Assyria and go to Babylonia' is the official term in which a campaign against Babylonia is described.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

Reaching out like a flash he seized his pistol lying on the ground and brought it down on the head of his enemy, who momentarily blinded and suffering could not resist.
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

It is, moreover, the essential principle of tea, of Paraguay tea, and of Guarana, infusions of which are used as beverages in different parts of the world.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The truth is glorious enough, and to write on such a basis is dignified and fair.
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott

Well, to The Man on the Ladder it does not seem “reasonable to believe” that such method of estimating is sound nor the tonnage result attained by it dependable.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

Then he raised his poker and brought it down on the arm of the man who had hit him.
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young

What did you do when you arrived back in Dallas late that Sunday night?
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

27:002:025 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. 27:002:026
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 27: Daniel by Anonymous