And with this ambiguous saying, he saluted me with a more formal manner, if I may so say, than before, and lent me his hand; and so we walked toward the house, side by side, he seeming very thoughtful and pensive, as if he had already repented him of his goodness.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

So to dinner, then to my chamber all the afternoon, and in the evening my wife and I and Mercer and Barker to little Michell’s, walked, with some neats’ tongues and cake and wine, and there sat with the little couple with great pleasure, and talked and eat and drank, and saw their little house, which is very pretty; and I much pleased therewith, and so walked home, about eight at night, it being a little moonshine and fair weather, and so into the garden, and, with Mercer, sang till my wife put me in mind of its being a fast day; and so I was sorry for it, and stopped, and home to cards awhile, and had opportunity ‘para baiser’ Mercer several times, and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I then went to bed, and left my wife and the maid a-washing still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

See map bulla, -ae , f. bulla , a locket made of small concave plates of gold fastened by a spring ( p. 212 ) C C. abbreviation for Gâius , Eng.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

after having directed a furious battery against it, Signor Fabricio Colonna, governor of the town, having from a bastion begun to parley, and his soldiers in the meantime being a little more remiss in their guard, our people entered the place at unawares, and put them all to the sword.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It will not often happen that, of two houses similarly composed, one will be almost unanimous, and the other nearly equally divided; if a majority in one rejects a measure, there will generally have been a large minority unfavorable to it in the other; any improvement, therefore, which could be thus impeded, would in almost all cases be one which had not much more than a simple majority in the entire body, and the worst consequence that could ensue would be to delay for a short time the passing of the measure, or give rise to a fresh appeal to the electors to ascertain if the small majority in Parliament corresponded to an effective one in the country.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

I knew you’d carry on. Come, be a little more sober, please.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6. Propriety arises from usage when buildings having magnificent interiors are provided with elegant entrance-courts to correspond; for there will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low, mean entrance.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Then to Mr. Falconer’s to a good dinner, having myself carried them a vessel of sturgeon and a Lamprey pie, and then to the Yarde again, and among other things did at Mr. Ackworth’s obtain a demonstration of his being a knave; but I did not discover it, till it be a little more seasonable.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As I spoke I held her to my breast and let myself fall gently beside her on the bed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So I back again, walking both forward and backward, and left my wife to come by water.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Another officer, Henderson, continued to load and fire his musket with a broken arm, until dispatched by a leaden missile in the chest.
— from Famous Indian Chiefs Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

Marya, the wife of Nikolay’s brother Kiryak, had six children, and Fyokla, the wife of Nikolay’s brother Denis—who had gone for a soldier—had two; and when Nikolay, going into the hut, saw all the family, all those bodies big and little moving about on the lockers, in the hanging cradles and in all the corners, and when he saw the greed with which the old father and the women ate the black bread, dipping it in water, he realized he had made a mistake in coming here, sick, penniless, and with a family, too—a great mistake!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When Zopyrus drew an Illyrian sword to cut off his head Pyrrhus looked so fiercely at him that he was terrified, and bungled in his work, but at length managed to sever
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

To the eastward, south of Memphis, and extending down almost to Vicksburg, is the enormous Yazoo Basin, a lowland of many bayous and lakes, making a region of excessive fertility, and its Choctaw name has thus been naturally acquired, meaning "leafy.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

It's contrary to the reason of the thing, boy, that a snap should count for a fire, when one is nothing more than a fire-stone striking a steel pan, and the other is sudden death; so get out of my way, boy, and let me show Billy Kirby how to shoot a Christmas turkey.”
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

[1] The ancient city of London, or London proper, is a district covering about a square mile, and was once enclosed in walls; it is still governed by a lord mayor, court of aldermen, and a common council elected mainly by members of the "city" companies, representing the medieval trade guilds (S274).
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

It is little I care, myself being a literary man, whether the metaphors and the syntax and the sentence rhythms were contrived by Mr. Yeats or Lady Gregory or the people of Kiltartan, or whether they are natural to the English tongue of other times and other regions of the world.
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 42: "The next day I began building a little `mi-mi,' to serve as a resting-place for the night in going back at any time for supplies."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris