I have pleased my father, however, by coming down, and I'll to-morrow please myself by returning.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

We struggled out to the open air and the bright sunshine, and for the space of thirty minutes received ragged Arabs by couples, dozens and platoons, and paid them bucksheesh for services they swore and proved by each other that they had rendered, but which we had not been aware of before—and as each party was paid, they dropped into the rear of the procession and in due time arrived again with a newly-invented delinquent list for liquidation.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Pitch mollifies hard swellings, and brings boils and sores to suppuration, it breaks carbuncles, disperses aposthumes, cleanses ulcers of corruption and fills them with flesh.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Trunks had to be carried down and mufflers looked for.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Thus the definition of Justice would be sought by comparing different actions commonly judged to be just, and framing a general proposition that would harmonise with all these particular judgments.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

But for the place of the damned after the Resurrection, it is not determined, neither in the Old, nor New Testament, by any note of situation; but onely by the company: as that it shall bee, where such wicked men were, as God in former times in extraordinary, and miraculous manner, had destroyed from off the face of the Earth: As for Example, that they are in Inferno, in Tartarus, or in the bottomelesse pit; because Corah, Dathan, and Abirom, were swallowed up alive into the earth.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Many a gallant man of the highest honour is often not proof against these, and has been known to despair over a bad dinner, or to be cast down at a ragged-elbowed coat.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

This is when their annual projects are being closed down, and new projects are started.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Hardly had she reached the zenith of her power when the disintegration began, and one by one her brilliant conquests dropped away, to leave her alone in her faded splendor, with naught but her vaunting pride left, another “Niobe of nations.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I will say that I want to see what my bride can do, and bid her wash the shirt which has the three drops of tallow on it.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Accompanied by a relative she, with heroic fortitude, followed the sledges in a hackney coach, beheld the preparations that were being made, watched her lover mount the gallows, and saw his lifeless body cut down and placed upon the block to be mutilated, without betraying any extravagant emotion, but when the executioner flung his victim's heart into the flames the sight was more than human nature could sustain.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

The savage inscriptions with which the walls of the city had been covered disappeared; and, in place of death and terror, humanity, the watchword of the new rulers, was everywhere to be seen.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"I want you to take Bobby out on the booms," commanded Denning, "and be careful he don't fall in."
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

We have many that can do any thing that Rear Admiral Beaufort can do, and he has conducted the British coast survey for twenty years, and has stood examinations before select committees of the British House of Commons, which have showed that no civil superintendent was necessary to guide him.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

By his antics strange but clever Driven all thy cares away.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

A tall woman in a blue calico dress and a brown gingham sunbonnet was standing there.
— from The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh

My foot may have slipped on the original job, but my bean certainly did act
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

Even a growing root of moderate size, such as that of a seedling bean, can displace a weight of some pounds.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir