Going thither in the highway, just by the Park gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat, carried by a dozen people at least, rowing as hard as he could drive, it seems upon some wager.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Think only of our banquets Brought and served by charming girls, For beauties sultans must adorn As dagger-hilts the pearls.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Maple Grove will probably be my model more than it ought to be—for we do not at all affect to equal my brother, Mr. Suckling, in income.—However, my resolution is taken as to noticing Jane Fairfax.—I shall certainly have her very often at my house, shall introduce her wherever I can, shall have musical parties to draw out her talents, and shall be constantly on the watch for an eligible situation.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Thence home, and not finding Bagwell’s wife as I expected, I to the ‘Change and there walked up and down, and then home, and she being come I bid her go and stay at Mooregate for me, and after going up to my wife (whose eye is very bad, but she is in very good temper to me), and after dinner I to the place and walked round the fields again and again, but not finding her I to the ‘Change, and there found her waiting for me and took her away, and to an alehouse, and there I made much of her, and then away thence and to another and endeavoured to caress her, but ‘elle ne voulait pas’, which did vex me, but I think it was chiefly not having a good easy place to do it upon.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At the same moment, a small boy clung tight round his leg, and a shrill cry of ‘Here he is, father!
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Thence I away with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, to the Treasury Chamber, but to no purpose, and so by coach home, and there to my office to business, and then home to dinner, and to pipe with my wife, and so to the office again, having taken a resolution to take a turn to Chatham to-morrow, indeed to do business of the King’s, but also to give myself the satisfaction of seeing the place after the Dutch have been here.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Muanhi ka ug sayu ugmà, mga alas sayis ba, Come here early tomorrow, shall we say, six o’clock?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I could not see my father weep, and sit by, careless.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

At the beginning of his reign, Jerusalem endured a long and painful siege by Antiochus Sidetes, B. C. 135-133.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

Along the opposite side of the street passes Nux Vomica, M.D., with a small black case in his hand, gravely intent on his professional duties.
— from Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Above these were wooden bunks, like those of a barracks, filled with dirty beds and screened by curtains.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

At a late grand review the eye of a beholder was attracted by an officer quite resplendent in a beautiful white uniform, superb high black boots with glittering spurs, a silver breastplate, and glittering helmet, and mounted on a splendid black charger, his appearance was gorgeousness intensified.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker

Thence with Creed to the Cock ale-house, and there spent 6d., and so by coach home, 2s.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 64: April 1668 by Samuel Pepys

Inquiry and doubt are silenced by citation of ancient laws or a multitude of miscellaneous and unsifted cases.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Whether, as two organs which originally budded out of the same membrane, have not only become different as they developed, 310 but have also severally become compound internally, though externally simple: so two emotions, simple and near akin in their roots, may not only have grown unlike, but may also have grown involved in their natures, though seeming homogeneous to consciousness.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

Another learned author says: "By comparing the varied legends of the East and West in conjunction we obtain a full outline of the mythology of the an [Pg 56] cients.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, 160 which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf