At noon to Broad Street to Sir G. Carteret and Lord Bruncker, and there dined with them, and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall, where the Duke of York is now newly come for this winter, and there did our usual business, which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of York’s house, thinking as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she was not; and more, I was vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth in the room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick: but, Lord!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

His eyes seemed to be looking at something I couldn't see.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He bowed low, and said, “I have been a very wicked man, have [ 28 ] left my parents, have broken all the laws of filial devotion, and deserve condign punishment.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

We have come far from the snake liar and the fish liar, and there was rest and peace in the thought; but now we have reached the realm of the boomerang liar, and sorrow is with us once more.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Alcibiades further advised Tissaphernes not to be in too great a hurry to end the war, or to let himself be persuaded to bring up the Phoenician fleet which he was equipping, or to provide pay for more Hellenes, and thus put the power by land and sea into the same hands; but to leave each of the contending parties in possession of one element, thus enabling the king when he found one troublesome to call in the other.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

But lo, a stir is in the air!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I opened the door: “He was pale and furious, and he treated me harshly: 'You have behaved like a scoundrel in my house, do you hear?'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

1:12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

The annual report of pardons granted and the commutations of the sentences of convicts required by law; a statement in detail of the expenditure of the governor's contingent fund; the semi-annual report of the commissioners of the sinking fund, for May; copies of proclamations issued during the last year; and an acknowledgment of the presentation to the State of several of the portraits of former governors of Ohio, are transmitted herewith.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

By actively prosecuting the war by land and sea, it was hoped that Venice would soon be compelled to sue for peace—a consummation for which all longed, as the expenses were becoming burdensome, and each of the allies had its own separate interests.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

Discomfort was in his breast like a snake in grass.
— from Yonder by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

307 Bruce, Lady Augusta (Stanley), i. 124 , 281 , ii. 93 Bruce, H. A. (Lord Aberdare), ii. 212 Brussels, F. N.'s study of hospitals at, i. 417 Buckingham, Duke of, ii.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

"What?" asked Henrietta, as she drew shut the basket lid and slipped in the catch.
— from He Comes Up Smiling by Charles Sherman

Her hair was very beautiful, long and silken, its nut-brown tint contrasting exquisitely with the dazzling whiteness of her fine fresh complexion.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 04 by Louis Constant Wairy