Which troubled me also I confess a little, but I endeavoured to remove all as well as I could.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Hence," continued my father—"hence, it follows that the more fractional a life be— id est , the greater the number of persons among whom it can be subdivided—why, the more there are to say, 'a very valuable life that!'
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Besides, he thinks nothing of inventing a new science, with a complete nomenclature, in a twinkling—and should you seem sluggish of apprehension, he endows you with an additional sense or two, over and above the usual seven, till you are no longer at a loss, be it even to scent the music of fragrance, or to hear the smell of a balmy piece of poetry.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

We in America do not know what rooks are like, but in England they are common enough.
— from Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories by Kate Upson Clark

Jeffrey, Francis, Lord , a celebrated critic and lawyer, born in Edinburgh; trained for and called to the bar in 1794; with a fine cultivated literary taste devoted himself principally to literary criticism, and being a Whig in politics was associated with the originators of the Edinburgh Review ( q. v .), and became its first editor in 1802, which he continued to be till 1829, contributing to its pages all along articles of great brilliancy; he was distinguished also at the bar in several famous trials; became Lord Advocate of Scotland in 1830, M.P. for Edinburgh in 1832, and finally, in 1834, one of the judges in the Court of Session; lie was a dark-eyed, nimble little man, of alert intelligence and quick in all his movements; died at Craigcrook, near Edinburgh (1773-1850).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The Italians have fourteen ironclads, some of them really splendid ships, and one, the Affondatore , lately built in England, the equal of almost any afloat.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Put your Minnows for trolling in tin cases, with partitions for each Minnow with a little bran in each, this method keeps them nice and fresh.
— from The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland

When, plus distinction and minus his hand, he was at last back in England, the squire had come to see him.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

Nothing can be more injurious than a lie, but its evil tendency chiefly respects our future conduct.
— from Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) by Charles Brockden Brown