A double artistic purpose is served by representing them as feeling thus.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Walter had formed a strong friendship for the pure-minded and talented young man, whose gentle and affectionate nature needed a strong heart to lean upon; and the lovely Evelyn, too, he regarded with a deep and painful interest; so frail and fair a tiding you seldom saw, with a hold on life so insecure, and yet so gay and unconscious; her thoughts, her hopes, and her whole loving heart were with her brother, for whom she fondly pictured a future of happiness and success in the new world where they were going.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

Three things which make others poore make Alderman Lee, nowe Maior,—riche, wine, women, and dice; he was fortunat in marrying riche wives, lucky in great gaming at dice, and prosperous in sale of his wines.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

And, after all, if larger liberties are attached to the acquisition of knowledge, and the child finds that it can no more go to the seaside without a knowledge of the multiplication and pence tables than it can be an astronomer without mathematics, it will learn the multiplication table, which is more than it always does at present, in spite of all the canings and keepings in.
— from Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw

By a Diamond, a Pleasure in store.
— from The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson

From the Spartan authorities they obtained a distinct affirmative promise, in spite of the thirty years’ truce still subsisting: at Athens they had no success, and they accordingly openly revolted (seemingly about midsummer, 432 B.C. ), at the same time that the armament under Archestratus sailed.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

In this country, too, sir—it pains my heart to be compelled to recite the circumstances—our contemplated measures of resistance had been relaxed, and the whole country exhibited such scenes of divisions and disaffections as paralyzed in some degree the movements of the Government.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

When I am dead, as presently I shall be (For the grim tyrant grasps my hand already), Speak well of me: and if thou find ill tongues Too busy with my fame, don't hear me wrong'd; 'Twill be a noble justice to the memory Of a poor wretch, once honour'd with thy love.
— from The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage. A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Thomas Otway

The row of one and a half miles from the [57] hotel to the best fishing ground, if the tide was not favourable, was a drawback, and personally I should prefer to pitch a camp on one of the many excellent sites at the mouth of the Campbell River, so one would be independent of the hotel hours and meals.
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

All but four of these young persons were Jewish, a factor which must be considered as of possible consequence, but which cannot be evaluated properly from any data at present in scientific literature.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

“Never mind that,” said Fabian, “describe to me the man who accompanies Don Antonio; perhaps I shall recognise him.”
— from Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid