But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“They are rather queer; but for my part I have no serious fears of a Jacquerie.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But as to the question you just asked, it seems to me there are but few men so wise that they are able to answer it correctly.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Again, whatever jaundiced people view Becomes wan-yellow, since from out their bodies Flow many seeds wan-yellow forth to meet The films of things, and many too are mixed
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

heedful of thy high commands, Loth I gave way, and warn'd our Argive bands: For Mars, the homicide, these eyes beheld, With slaughter red, and raging round the field.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But when Ivan Matveitch described to me last night the elasticity of the crocodile, he hinted very plainly that there would be room not only for you two, but for me also as a friend of the family, especially if I wished to join you, and therefore...."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Where was the bright, fresh morning?
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In this poor state I had to bear from my companion something in the nature of a persecution.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are going to be friends, Mr. Wrayson," she declared.
— from The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

I suppose they never thought how easy it would be for me to swing out of the open window and climb down the lightning-rod.
— from The Story of Dago by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Private papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[Pg 90] Billy feared Mrs. Gray more than he did the judge or policeman—that is, at close range; but when occupying the vantage-ground, as at the present, he delighted in revolt.
— from Rosa's Quest Or, The Way to the Beautiful Land by Anna Potter Wright

The same germ-idea underlying these doctrines is to be found much later in Stahl’s phlogistic theory (eighteenth century), which attempted to account for the combustibility of bodies by the assumption that such bodies all contain “phlogiston”—the hypothetical principle of combustion (see § 72 )—though the concept of “phlogiston” approaches more nearly to the modern idea of an element than do the alchemistic elements or principles.
— from Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove

After the death of his wife he gives to the Society for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Baptist Ministers, instituted in Bath, 1816, and to the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, each one hundred pounds.
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

There was one point upon which she was firm, however, which was that none but Father Michel should be her instructor, and the good man, with many a dubious shake of his head, entered upon his work the following week.
— from Nancy Stair: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

Fascinated by that "silence that can be felt," men came from far.
— from Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

But Falko Melegari would not go away from a place where his interests and his passions both combined to hold him; and it never entered the mind of the miller to take his wife elsewhere.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida