Up, and to Church; where Alderman Backewell’s wife, and mother, and boy, and another gentlewoman, did come, and sit in our pew; but no women of our own there, and so there was room enough.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

No habían andado gran distancia cuando llegaron a otra fonda.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

And there is a great dwelling called Valaskjalf, which belongs to Odin.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The front of the house looks a good deal cheerier; and Alice's Posies are blooming there beautifully; and if I were a young man, Mr. Holgrave, my sweetheart should have one of those flowers in her bosom, though I risked my neck climbing for it!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

not understand &c. 518; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea &c. (uncertain) 475; wonder &c. 870; see through a glass darkly &c. (ignorance) 491.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

These were the last words spoken by the whelp, before a giddy drowsiness came upon him, followed by complete oblivion.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

they are going down Clark's River in surch of the Shalees their friends, and from thence intend returning by this rout home again, they fleesed their meat informed us that they should dry it and leave it for their homeward journey.—Set out at 12.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Godfather and godson do credit to one another.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In a great degree corresponding with modern Portugal, except that the latter includes the tract of country between the Minho and Douro.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

On holidays in fine weather the girls dressed up in their best and went in a crowd together to church, and it was a cheering sight to see them in their red, yellow, and green dresses cross the meadow; in bad weather they all stayed at home.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Steeped in affection to sin—with, at the best, ages of Purgatory awaiting us—we add every straw we can gather to our already huge burden and imagine we can lay it down [149] with a good deathbed confession and slip into Paradise with the best!
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

Soon a gigantic dragon came creeping up toward the young birds, and was just devouring them, when the lad drew his sword of lightning, and cutting the dragon into pieces, gave its flesh to the young eaglets, which began to eat it and to chirp merrily.
— from The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. K. Seklemian

The Knight replied: "Norham Castle is a grim, dull cage for a bird so beautiful as the lady of Heron, and with my consent she sits with the noble and fair Queen Margaret, the bride of royal James."
— from The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Sara Davis Jenkins

About half-an-hour after, on the road, a gradual dumb chuckle overcame his lower features.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 by George Meredith

I am a good deal changed since those times; and, to tell you the truth, my past self is not very much to my taste, as I see myself in this book.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

To this Alice could only reply, as comfortingly as she could: "You've given her a good deal, Captain."
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

The apparatus consists of a cylindrical vessel containing water to the height of 0.07 m. Above the water is a germinating disk containing 100 apertures for the insertion of the seeds to be studied, the germinating end of the latter being directed toward the water.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

Cameroon: general assessment: available only to business and government domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency