He wished the road might be impassable, that he might be able to keep them all at Randalls; and with the utmost good-will was sure that accommodation might be found for every body, calling on his wife to agree with him, that with a little contrivance, every body might be lodged, which she hardly knew how to do, from the consciousness of there being but two spare rooms in the house.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

As for the water now buoying the ship, it was a lake completely encircled by an inner wall about two miles in diameter, hence six miles around.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

ſpauentorno poi fece armare vno homo cõ vno homo darme et li meſſe atorno tre cõ ſpade et pugniale q̃ li dauano ꝓ tuto iL corpo ꝓ laq a L coſa eL re reſto caſi fora diſe li diſſe ꝓ il Schiauo q̃ vno de queſti armati valeua ꝓ cento de li suoi reſpoſe q̃ era cuſſi
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Up, and after doing some business at the office, I to London, and there, in my way, at my old oyster shop in Gracious Streete, bought two barrels of my fine woman of the shop, who is alive after all the plague, which now is the first observation or inquiry we make at London concerning everybody we knew before it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

En otra sala, que se llama oficina o despacho, están los altos escritorios, [48] ante los cuales empleados diligentes trabajan en los libros de comercio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The Count, however, was decidedly against him, and a long conversation ensued, in which the usual arguments on these subjects were on both sides brought forward with skill, and discussed with candour, but without converting either party to the opinion of his opponent.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'The world,' said he, pursuing this train of thought, 'ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Such events, as bear little analogy to the common course of nature, are also readily confessed to be known only by experience; nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments a priori .
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

He can hardly be said, however, to commit a literary crime even if he disregard this caution.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By a little concerted effort of local officials, individuals, or by the school children in applying whichever of the above methods is most practicable, much interesting and valuable work could be accomplished and the pestiferous mosquito largely eliminated in many localities.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

Next to men, unworthy of the church, injuring American Literature, come editors of certain stamp, the shame of those countries, where it is permitted a free circulation.
— from Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti

I reckon 11,000 Ship-Carpenters, and their necessary Assistants, Labourers, &c., employed here, and at Calais , Dunkirk , and Ostend , besides those at Work on the Boats preparing at Ghent , Bruges , and Antwerp .
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

2 [a4] light curse expressing irritation.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For the distractions of a dissipated nobility and a large cosmopolitan element, the Metropolis needed the means of gratification.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

It is not surprising that, under inefficient administration, there should have arisen from the dregs of such a population a large class either actually living by crime or ready to resort to outrage as favourable opportunities might arise.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

She found herself at the end of a long table with an inarticulate schoolboy of seventeen, a ward of Lord Dunstable's, on her left, and with an elderly colonel on her right, who, after a little cool examination of her through an eyeglass, decided to devote himself to the débutante on his other side, a Lady Rosamond, who was ready to chatter hunting and horses to him through the whole of dinner.
— from A Great Success by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

TWO MAIDEN AUNTS BY MARY H. DEBENHAM AUTHOR OF 'MISTRESS PHIL' 'A LITTLE CANDLE ETC.
— from Two Maiden Aunts by Mary H. Debenham

When the news came to the Union that Delancy had gone into the house of Fletcher & Co. as a clerk, there was a general smile, and a languid curiosity expressed as to how long he would stick to it.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner