Thence home to the office, and there all the morning by particular appointment with Sir W. Pen, Sir R. Ford, and those that are concerned for my Lady Batten (Mr. Wood, Young, and Lewes), to even the accounts of our prize business, and at noon broke up, and to dinner, every man to his own home, and to it till late at night again, and we did come to some end, and I am mightily put to it how to order the business of my bargaine, but my industry is to keep it off from discourse till the ship be brought home safe, and this I did do, and so we broke up, she appearing in our debts about L1500, and so we parted, and I to my business, and home to my wife, who is troubled with the tooth ake, and there however I got her to read to me the History of Algiers, which I find a very pretty book, and so to supper with much pleasure talking, and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Anon there came one there booted and spurred that she talked long with.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The carpenter went to work and made them benches and stools to sit on, such as the wood he could get would afford, and a kind of table to dine on.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Then come you to the Papey, a proper house, wherein sometime was kept a fraternity or brotherhood of St. Charity and St. John Evangelist, called the Papey, for poor impotent priests (for in some language priests are called papes), founded in the year 1430 by William Oliver, William Barnabie, and John Stafford, chaplains or chantry priests in London, for a master, two wardens, etc., chaplains, chantry priests, conducts, and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted into the church of St. Augustine Papey in the wall.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They said he was wandering in his head yesterday, dear boy, and so they said the day before.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

let him refer to an able, and perfectly truthful article, in The Foreign Quarterly Review , published in the present month of October; to which my attention has been attracted, since these sheets have been passing through the press.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Each band and strip they soaked in oil, And set on fire the twisted coil.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Affected with her sorrow, I pressed the fair mourner to my breast, and swore that she was more dear and welcome on that account, because she had sacrificed her friends and fortune to her love for me.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Now go and dine from off the plate Presented by the Prince of the Brazils, And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from your luxurious meals: He fought, but has not fed so well of late.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Moreover, he showed us by documentary evidence that the real portrait of Maria Vanrenen had, as a matter of fact, been brought to England five years before, and sold to Sir J. H. Tomlinson, the well-known connoisseur, for eight thousand pounds.
— from An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

The bandit almost saw the snarl on di Lippo's lips as he dropped out slowly: "You are too cautious, my friend--you think to the skin.
— from The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

In twenty minutes we were well across it, with but slight assistance from ourselves, and being carried by a strong though somewhat variable breeze well up the harbour.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The full flame of her scorn blazed out at that, but he felt, like an echo of tears in himself, that she would have burst into tears of wretchedness if she had not been able so to scorn him.
— from The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

I feel that if I were to get up just now, in this boat, and speak two sentences——" "You would have us both laughing.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

When she had interrogated him by a sign, the servant leant over and said in a very low tone: "It's for that mantle.
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola

I entered but a short time since, just before the gates were closed for the night.”
— from The Strong Arm by Robert Barr

Push on, and, as you round the elbow of the hill, you are farther cheered by the nearer prospect of another domicile on the Lancashire side of the brook; that is the residence of Mr Daniel Tyson, the worthy proprietor and occupant of Cockley Beck, the name of the house and farm being derived from the stream that rushes along its north-western boundary, and said to signify “a winding or rugged stream;” others say its name is derived from the former condition or character of the bridge here which used to be “Cocklety,” a term implying “a daring contempt of danger and accommodation” on the part of its architect; others, again, say that the name of the brook ought to be Cockling or Cackling Beck, because the noise it occasionally makes in its stoney bed may, by the aid of a leetle imagination, be likened to that by which a hen announces to all concerned that she has just got safely quit of an egg.
— from The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone by Alexander Craig Gibson

As the wood burns away, shove the sticks in toward the center, butts on top of each other as before.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

The lies of Hermes are jests; they represent things as they might have been, and serve to show what a strange accident the truth is.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana