That being done, and some musique and other diversions, at last away goes my Lord and Lady, and I sent my wife to visit Mrs. Pierce, and so I to my office, where wrote important letters to the Court, and at night (Creed having clownishly left my wife), I to Mrs. Pierces and brought her and Mrs. Pierce to the King’s Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for her and mighty merry and pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, most of our mirth being upon “my Cozen” (meaning my Lord Bruncker’s ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body a continued sour base smell, that is very offensive, especially if she be a little hot.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze 20 to say, as to other persons, "God help you," but only to make a low reverence.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Ang pagbása dálan sa kinaadman, Reading is a way to knowledge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

An Honorary Fourth is when a candidate who only tries for a pass does so well that he is raised to the honours’ list.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

WESTERN UNION BUILDING, N. Y. THE Eclipse Engine Furnishes steam power for all Agricultural purposes, Driving Saw Mills , and for every use where a first-class and economical Engine is required.
— from Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

The habitable part was reached from the main gate by a steep stair, at one of the landings was a trap door opening upon a profoundly deep shaft; tradition said that this was a trap for personal enemies, who, on pretence of reconciliation were invited to the castle; on passing over the trap it opened, and they were precipitated to the bottom.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

" When she had stepped out and closed the door, he said, "I want you to come up where the wagon is: there's a nice bonfire up there, and it isn't cold; I want this man to tell you all he's been telling me about a place down south,—a hundred miles below this.
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

MS.); subglaber glaucescens, foliolis linearibus v. lineari-cuneatis vix acutatis, pedunculis folio longioribus 3—6-floris, calycis subsessilis appresse pubescentis dentibus setaceo-acuminatis tubo suo paullo longioribus, legumine recto tereti glabro.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

As tenderly and as delicately as possible did she approach the subject.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

This being the case, we clambered on board the steamer; in the cabin we saw a bill stuck up, announcing a bull-fight, interspersed with comic interludes, to take place the same evening, at Puerto de Santa Maria.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

Mademoiselle, we have an artist, a poilu , drawing some of the dresses.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

(Such books as Père Didon’s sublime Jésus Christ or Father Gallwey’s
— from Letters from the Holy Land by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

It is a powerfully dramatic story of Venice under ‘The Ten,’ told in a series of picturesque scenes described in strikingly artistic word-painting, the action being carried on by well-imagined, clearly defined characters.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood