And when at last the carriage stopped before the entrance, which was elegantly curtained with striped linen, and when he looked at the lighted windows of the second storey there was an audible catch in his breath.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Every sence it is A wonder I am A Live two children suked hur brest—it is heretarey two Children maried now Live upon me being disorded thay beat me offen with Death Cloube & the old gost toue bad to say I be silent under serkoumstanes I mus Cout & Roum sell the one of the first plases all most in the world for I am in grat fear of my Life being taken A way such blows I have had from toue or three gost in my familey is worth twelve hundred hoxets of geamator best shougers Even A saxton to take the blows I wodent for fifty milon Dollors words cant Express the bloddey war in my familey three gosts all Noys Robing of me I must sell with tears in my Eys I Cant see to Rite Aany more fare
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

He himself, whilst still somewhat burdened by the authoritative dicta of "saints and sages" of past times, ventures at least to criticise some of the latter, such as Pliny and Ptolemy, and declares his intention to have recourse to the information of those who have travelled most extensively over the Earth's surface.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We ran our vessel upon the sands and got out of her on to the sea shore; we also landed the Cyclops' sheep, and divided them equitably amongst us so that none might have reason to complain.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But of this Tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded, and left that Command Sole Daughter of his voice; the rest, we live Law to our selves, our Reason is our Law.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

When the question was put, Why they did not hold their noses also, lest the child’s soul should get into one of them?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

At last the carriage stopped at my house, and as soon as my servant had opened the door of my carriage I got down as fast as I could, and wished them good night—a compliment which Tour d’Auvergne returned with fresh peals of laughter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Take a lord's or a squire's land from him and his family forever, after a given number of years, for the benefit of aristocracy ; take [Pg 60] the farmer's plow and team, his harrows and his corn, for the benefit of agriculture ; take the mill-owner's mills, with all their spinning-jennies, and their cotton, and their wool, and their silk, and their own new inventions, for the benefit of manufacturing; take the merchant's ships and their cargoes, the shopkeeper's shop and his stores, the lawyer's parchment and his fees, the physician's and surgeon's physic and fees, for the benefit of commerce, trade, law, and physic: and let the clergy suffer no injury of neglect in this respect; let their churches, and their glebes, and tithes, be taken for the benefit of religion; let them all go shares with the authors in this beautiful system of justice and encouragement, and then the whole posse will soon put their heads together, and give back to the author his rights, while they take care of their own.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

There, at Philadelphia, he published during the remainder of his life, a weekly journal, El Habanero , which had a large though chiefly surreptitious circulation in Cuba, and which exerted an inestimable influence for the encouragement of patriotic endeavors.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

[920] Powerful indeed is the rhetorical outburst of Zwingli in a letter to Conrad Sam the preacher of Ulm, dated August 30, 1528: “May I be lost if he [Luther] does not surpass Faber in foolishness, Eck in impurity, Cochlæus in impudence, and to sum it up shortly, all the vicious in vice.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

At last, the carriage stopped, and I felt that they immediately bound up my hands; and that a thick night-cap was drawn over my face, by which I was completely blinded.
— from The Devil's Elixir, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

There, on the port side of the submarine, was a large Turkish cruiser, stern to.
— from The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Portugez called Augustino de Fiquira came to me and desyred a letter to Capt. Speck to retorne hym a slave of his which was in cure of the —— in the Duch howse, as he understood, his name being Francisco Mallabar.
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

The first great changes were, that the people became corrupted, dependent, and degraded; fortunes became unequally divided; the provinces groaned under the heavy contributions of generals and proconsuls; and, at last, the country splitting into factions, the government was overturned.
— from An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair

At last the clock struck eight and Mose looked up as if a thought had suddenly occurred to him.
— from Hesper, the Home-Spirit: A simple story of household labor and love by Lizzie Doten