or which is as much as to say that they wish they may always go bearfoot if they are not sincere; a pretty heavy penalty if they are to march through the plains of their country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

At night sent another packet to London by the post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant’s cabin and there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from Deal to-day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On est plus proche du roman "épistolaire" du 19e (siècle, pas l'arrondissement qui n'a rien à voir), que d'une continuité dialoguée… Donc, exercice difficile pour tout "tchatcheur", être court, mais tout dire, tout en restant léger… Heureusement, de temps à autre nous sommes aidés par un concept qui nous vient droit du jeu de rôle (d'autres auteurs du websoap nous viennent de ce secteur): le PNJ, le personnage non joué.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

After a night spent at Police Headquarters it travels up to the Infants’ Hospital on Randall’s Island in the morning, fitted out with a number and a bottle, that seldom see much wear before they are laid aside for a fresh recruit.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

And when, by proscription and prejudice, these same Negroes are classed with and treated like the lowest of their people, simply because they are Negroes, such a policy not only discourages thrift and intelligence among black men, but puts a direct premium on the very things you complain of,—inefficiency and crime.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

As my authorship increased, I acquired new sympathies and pleasures.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That is, it must have one main theme, not a number of diverse stories, for its plot; all the scenes must be laid in one place, or as nearly so as possible; and the action must be begun and finished within the space of twenty-four hours.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

At last when the clock was striking two, all was hushed, the bedroom door opened, and Nadyezhda Stepanovna appeared. “Pavel, are you asleep?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Nam utilissimus idem ac brevissimus bonarum malarumque rerum delectus cogitare quid aut nolueris sub alio principe, aut volueris."
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Two or three centuries more carries it beyond a thousand billions, and long before we arrive at the period of our world's creation, it would have reached a number surpassing all powers of easy enumeration.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

The house was always full of visitors—some of them more or less permanent—including traveling dignitaries, numerous aunts and relatives, monks and nuns seeking a permanent residence, and four orphaned children from among their kinsfolk.
— from Martin Luther by Carl E. Koppenhaver

What did Tim care, when all the neighbours called him mad, or even when his wife threatened him because he sold the bed from under her to buy a new spade and pick, for he knew it was troublesome ground he had to work in, and no mistake.
— from A Picture-book of Merry Tales by Anonymous

But the wages earned in the colony are to be attached until the expense of their passage be defrayed; and it is added by way of summary, that by such provisions as are now suggested, “all poor persons who cannot find means of support at home, and who are willing to live by their labour abroad, will be furnished with the means of doing so, and with intermediate support, if fit to emigrate; and if not, will be otherwise provided for, while the idle who would rather beg than 144 labour, will be taken up, and the evil of vagrancy suppressed.”
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

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— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

Therefore he must be told at all occasions and by all whom he meets that men of birth who are not soldiers are pitiful wretches.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

He was reputed to be extremely wealthy, yet lived in a miserly fashion, entertaining no visitors, and never spending a penny which it was possible for him to save.
— from The Manor House School by Angela Brazil