Wren, and Bulteale, and Sir Allen Apsly; the last of whom did make good sport, he being already fallen under the retrenchments of the new Committee, as he is Master Falconer; [The post of Master Falconer was afterwards granted to Charles’s son by Nell Gwyn, and it is still held by the Duke of St. Albans, as an hereditary office.—B.] which makes him mad, and swears that we are doing that the Parliament would have done—that is, that we are now endeavouring to destroy one another.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

All day Chapin walked back and forth upon the stoop, but not once approached me.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The coffee industry in Java and Sumatra, as well as in the other coffee-producing regions of the Dutch East Indies, was begun and fostered under the [Pg 269] paternal care of the Dutch government; and for that reason, machine-cleaning has always been a noteworthy factor in the marketing of these coffees.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Having adduced the clearest arguments, it would be absurd for us to hope that we can know more of any object, than belongs to the possible experience of it, or lay claim to the least atom of knowledge about anything not assumed to be an object of possible experience, which would determine it according to the constitution it has in itself.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

He reached the count’s big pond; it looked dark blue and frowning under the cloud, and a smell of damp and slime rose from it.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Blessed are the eyes which are closed to things without, but are fixed upon things within.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Back and forth upon the floor they rolled, neither one emitting a sound of fear or pain.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Then at the distance of about twelve Feet from the first Board I fixed the other Board in such manner that the middle of the refracted Light which came through the hole in the first Board, and fell upon the opposite Wall, might pass through the hole in this other Board, and the rest being intercepted by the Board might paint upon it the coloured Spectrum of the Sun.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

But I am certain that a State governed by the rules of justice and fortitude, or a Church built and founded upon the rock of faith and true knowledge, cannot be so pusillanimous.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

Then she took water, and washed the dead man's face; covered it with fresh green leaves; brought large boughs of the trees, and laid them over him; sprinkled dead leaves amongst the branches; fetched the largest stones she could carry, and placed them over the bodies, and filled up the openings with moss.
— from The Sand-Hills of Jutland by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

ANOTHER heavy wave dashed over the bulwarks, and fell upon the deck, with a thump that made the ship tremble.
— from John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch Or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-legged Soldier after the War by A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild) Hill

Neither the loon nor the otter can bolt a fish under the water; he must come to the surface to dispose of it.
— from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers by John Burroughs

The words came clear to his ear, and just outside he could hear two men pacing backwards and forwards upon the deck.
— from The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates by Arthur Conan Doyle

The boys and girls were going back and forth upon the campus and the streets.
— from Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell

And when he foretold that he should gain the victory and the dominion, he led out his army against the Philistines; and when the battle was joined, he came himself behind, and fell upon the enemy on the sudden, and slew some of them, and put the rest to flight.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

This simple remedy induces gentle perspiration, besides acting favorably upon the clogged membranes of the throat.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

She did not, as usual, shake her straw bed and fold up the rug.
— from One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Emily Sarah Holt

Boil a fowl until the meat falls from the bones.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

It was nearing ten o'clock the night before the wedding, and Captain Raymond was taking his usual stroll back and forth upon the porch before retiring, when Lucilla came to him for the usual bit of good-night chat so pleasant to them both.
— from Elsie's Young Folks in Peace and War by Martha Finley