For instance, if a man doth delight to talk of the history or the mystery of things, or if a man doth love to talk of miracles, wonders, or signs, where shall he find things
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

We rejoined the ambassador and M.—— who had not had time to think about us, as my dear Dubois had kept them amused by her lively conversation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

in torno la caſa poneno corde a mo do duno ſtecato neliq a li atachano molti ramy de arbore in mezo de ogni ramo e vno panno de bonbaſo aguiſa de pauigliõe
— 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

“Where is my palace and my daughter?” demanded the Sultan.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

We feel and know that there are many delicate differences in race psychology, numberless changes that our crude social measurements are not yet able to follow minutely, which explain much of history and social development.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I could feel him coming along skulking after me his eyes on my neck he had been keeping away from the house he felt it was getting too warm for him so I halfturned and stopped then he pestered me to say yes till I took off my glove slowly watching him he said my openwork sleeves were too cold for the rain anything for an excuse to put his hand anear me drawers drawers the whole blessed time till I promised to give him the pair off my doll to carry about in his waistcoat pocket
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Clark, June 14, 1806] Saturday June 14th 1806 Sent out Hunters this morning Colter killed a deer and brought it in by 10 A M Drewyer did not return untill night he wounded deer but could get none &c ____
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"Hey!" said the marquis; "what do you make of all my dishes?" "'Deed, my lord, ye may comfort yersel' that they warna dishes wi barns (brains) i' them; for sic 's some scarce i' the Hoose o' Lossie."
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

And then one night some one comes up the ivy, same as Master Dick did, and takes away—not her—but the baby.”
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Dick spoke to her of herself and of himself, but he said nothing that recalled any of the realities of her life, and when he suddenly lifted his hand from hers and whispered, 'Here comes Miss Hender: we mustn't appear too intimate before her,' she experienced the sensation of one awaking out of a most delicious dream.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

The awkward French word depôt (with its accent) might be replaced by the Old English word stow , which we find surviving in place-names, where it meant a military depôt during the English conquest of Britain.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

"Of course I should also have to be at my dock down here in Bellemere part of the time to look after business, but I could come up and down.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove by Laura Lee Hope

Thirty men under Captain King, who had been sent by Fanning to escort some settlers on their way northwards, were attacked by overpowering numbers, and, after a most desperate defence, utterly exterminated.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

All men desire distinction, and feel the need of some ennobling object in life.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike