Not a little contented at this chance of being made known to these persons, and called often by my name by the King, I to Mr. Pierces to take leave of him, but he not within, but saw her and made very little stay, but straight home to my office, where I did business, and then to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the absolute direction of his household, and in the important commissions of peace and war, 115 the favorite youth most rapidly acquired a fortune of four hundred thousand pounds sterling; and after their return to Constantinople, the passion of Antonina, at least, continued ardent and unabated.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

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— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

But if the death in the dream had a long context, agreeing point for point with every feature that attended the real death; if the subject were constantly having such dreams, all equally perfect, and if on awaking he had a habit of acting immediately as if they were true and so getting 'the start' of his more tardily informed neighbors,—we should probably all have to admit that he had some mysterious kind of clairvoyant power, that his dreams in an inscrutable way knew just those realities which they figured, and that the word 'coincidence' failed to touch the root of the matter.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“The woman’s mad!” cried Evgenie, at last, crimson with anger, and looking confusedly around.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Less than a year later his brother poet, N. P. Willis, issued this touching appeal to the admirers of genius on behalf of the neglected author, his dying wife and her devoted mother, then living under very straitened circumstances in a little cottage at Fordham, N. Y.: “Here is one of the finest scholars, one of the most original men of genius, and one of the most industrious of the literary profession of our country, whose temporary suspension of labor, from bodily illness, drops him immediately to a level with the common objects of public charity.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Once we put him in a little chaise and drove him triumphantly through the green lanes for five miles; but all at once, as we were extolling him to the skies, he seemed to take it ill that he should have been accompanied so far by the circle of tantalizing little gnats that had been hovering round and round his ears the whole way without appearing to advance an inch, and stopped to think about it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

They are sure to make the givers feel at least a little chagrined at their choice.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Finding in ourselves these highest qualities—qualities which enable us to understand all lower creatures and to use them—we [128] gather that in God Himself there must be something akin to our mind and to our inner man.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

At last came a distant crashing as of one making his way through heavy undergrowth, and the noise drew nearer until at length Burns burst through into the road, wide of the place where he had gone in.
— from Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Among household curios old flutes beautifully inlaid stowed away in antique leather cases are interesting relics of former days.
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

The boy rose on his pillow and looked cautiously around him.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

At last came an old man and woman of the Huwaytát tribe, bringing for sale a quantity of liquefied butter.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

We number 8,000,000 souls, yet our newspapers with very few exceptions languish for want of readers, and our colleges are not creating a literary class among the laity.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

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