Lady Gabrielle hath taken to her room with cries of anger and sorrow at the news, and as for Rosamond Earlscourt, she hath servants, smelling-bottles, hot drinks, and all she can [Pg 263] muster about the place attending on her, so loud is her grief.
— from Maid Sally by Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

"Aw, he's a fool, right enough," said Harry, "but he just has a sort of head for knowing where the rocks are under the ground, and somehow he seems to make old Maggie hoss know where they lie, too.
— from Bull Hunter by Max Brand

Sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport Saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves Saying me to be the fittest man in England Saying, that for money he might be got to our side Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here Says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth Sceptic in all things of religion Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so Scotch song of "Barbary Allen" Searchers with their rods in their hands See a dead man lie floating upon the waters See her look dejectedly and slighted by people already See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody See how time and example may alter a man Seeing that he cared so little if he was out Seemed much glad of that it was no more
— from Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys