Knepp looked upon us, but I durst not shew her any countenance; and, as well as I could carry myself, I found my wife uneasy there, poor wretch!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Am feeling pretty well—am outdoors most of the time, absorbing the days and nights all I can. CENTRAL PARK NOTES American Society from a Park Policeman's Point of View Am in New York city, upper part—visit Central Park almost every day (and have for the last three weeks) off and on, taking observations or short rambles, and sometimes riding around.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He wrote briefly that an important case called him to Albany, whence he would be unable to return till the evening, and asked Lily to let him know at what hour on the following day she would see him.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Rotterdam and Amsterdam are also important coffee centers, but rank far below the others named.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This is altered into: ‘Cependant chaque jour Therese venait lui faire une visite.’
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the investigation of kinship, the following up of one relation after another in concrete cases leads naturally to the construction of genealogical tables.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

confirm, affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, countersign; corroborate &c. 467.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Once I happened to speak of an engineering job I had been on the previous year in Florida, and of the contrast between the winter landscape about us and that in which I had found myself the year before; and to my surprise Frome said suddenly: “Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Those who are guided only by an irrational conscience can hardly understand what a good life would be.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And when he has gone through his initiation, wooed and won his marvellous beauty, and lost her in an ideal island, the final shape of his aspirations is curiously characteristic.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

They have shown how widespread is this perversity among the higher strata of society, especially among military men and in court circles.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

"And I can come to see you now?" "Very well do you know that you cannot.
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

Yet all I could contain came to me from the mother and child.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

—A religious organization that takes the Bible as its constitution can not declare a member a seceder who interprets it contrary to the Augsburg Confession of the denomination.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan

" Ch is generally sounded in the same manner as if it were tch : as in Charles, church, cheerfulness , and cheese .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Similar, too, had been the mood of Bernard de Rohan as he rode along; not so much that the scene and its charms created, as that they found, sympathetic feelings in his bosom; for his disposition was naturally cheerful and bright, full of gay thoughts and happy enthusiasms.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

These portraits are just about as wonderful as any you may remember,—in his best style and in capital condition.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various