They had a great public bulletin board in Pompeii—a place where announcements for gladiatorial combats, elections, and such things, were posted—not on perishable paper, but carved in enduring stone.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I staid up late, putting things in order for my going to Chatham to-morrow, and so to bed, being in pain... with the little riding in a coach to-day from the Exchange, which do trouble me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thereupon they tore off her delicate raiment, laid her on a table, cut her beautiful body in pieces and strewed salt thereon.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

France, so long shaken and wind-parched, is probably at the right inflammable point.—As for poor Curtius, who, one grieves to think, might be but imperfectly paid,—he cannot make two words about his Images.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Be brief, I pray you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Its motion is “similar to that of the rays from burning bodies;” “it possesses different qualities in different individuals.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Lord Bathurst, who knew both Pope and Bolingbroke, went so far as to say in later years that the Essay was originally composed by Bolingbroke in prose and that Pope only put it into verse.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

My Uncle had been back in Philadelphia not much more than a year when classes were put in his charge and a schoolroom—the school-house at Broad and Locust—at his disposal, and he inaugurated the study of the Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia with the Industrial Art School, as he had in London with the Home Arts.
— from Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Personally, he was inclined to admire—and frankly to admit it—the ability which had brought Burr into prominence from a position of evident obscurity, while he regarded Mrs. Webb's eccentric attitude as a kind of antedated comedy.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Let the Dead be buried in places remote from the habitations of the living.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

In dry weather it is scarcely more than a brook, but in periods of rain—and spring in Virginia is a rainy season—it swells suddenly and quickly to almost impassable proportions, while the swamps that form its banks become 360 morasses in which it is difficult to find even a foothold, and impossible to discover a fit camping place for troops.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

"The river ran right through the fields, and my brother used to bathe in it, and fish—ay, many's the hour we've spent on its banks with a rod and basket—many's the dish we've brought back in pride to our mother."
— from The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young by F. M. S.

This ore, after being broken in pieces, is grinded or stamped in a mill by the help of water, into a gross powder, with which quicksilver is afterwards mixed.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

She did not quite know whether to be glad or not that the men were all in sacks and cutaways at dinner; it saved her, from shame for her husband and Mr. Burnamy; but it put her in the wrong.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

I had personally for some time been busy in pressing the then somewhat coldly received claims for a better system of education, higher and technical as well as elementary, among my own countrymen, and had met with some success in asking for the establishment of teaching universities and of [40] technical colleges, such as the new Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington.
— from Before the War by Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount