Dined at home, and so about my business in the afternoon to the Temple, where I found my Chancery bill drawn against T. Trice, which I read and like it, and so home. 17th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The garter is worn buckled, with the end tucked under and looped in a specified manner, which is the method also adopted in heraldic representations.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[121] Church, who, as often as he pleased (and he was asked to do this by those who desired to [Pg 43] witness so remarkable a phenomenon), on some one imitating the wailings of mourners, became so insensible, and lay in a state so like death, that not only had he no feeling when they pinched and pricked him, but even when fire was applied to him, and he was burned by it, he had no sense of pain except afterwards from the wound.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For in all bounds there is something positive (e.g., a surface is the boundary of corporeal space, and is therefore itself a space, a line is a space, which is the boundary of the surface, a point the boundary of the line, but yet always a place in space), whereas limits contain mere negations.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

She will then be admitted and lodged in a suitable chamber.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

From the time of Graetz it has been the fashion to decry the Kabbala and to regard it as a later incrustation, as something of which Judaism had reason to be ashamed."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

We crept in under Jim’s bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The key was always left in a secret hiding-place in the entry, which Edna knew.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

“Well, my dear, it’s very foolish of me, I know, when in all likelihood I am so near seeing her again.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A little in advance stood two men, who were apparently selected from the rest, as the principal actors in what was to follow.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

8, A and B. Form the lead so that the seams when finished will come on the outside, as in case of a leak in a seam it can then be easily repaired by removing one of the boards.
— from The Art of Lead Burning A practical treatise explaining the apparatus and processes. by C. H. Fay

There are as many furrows on your brow as lines in a spider’s web, and your lips are drawn in as if you had dined on green persimmons.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

I’m goin’ out of this second-hand sellin’ and lay in a stock of ten-cent blue dishes to sell!”
— from Polly's Business Venture by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Nefert turned to a little idler, and said: "You are chattering again, and doing nothing, and yet your father is in the field.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

Braes we breasted and precipitous heathery heights we sliddered down, but there was always rain and ever more rain, turning at last into a sharp thin sleet that chilled the blood.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine

And, lastly, in all States naturalisation may be procured through a direct act on the part of the State granting nationality to an alien who has applied for it.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

We've so developed our perceptive faculties by spiritual exercises that we are linked in a single chain; and can detect a feeling of pleasure and harmony, when there's complete accord.
— from The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy by August Strindberg

"I can't find anything in them," ventures he, at last, in a slightly dejected tone; "and they're so horrid sticky.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

While thus she was enjoying tranquility and cultivating the arts and learning in a secluded corner of the earth, in the western nations, endless struggles and everlasting contests completely revolutionized the old phases of the earth.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Somebody picked it up and lit it and stuck it in his mouth; it dropped again.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair