This afternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in each of their hands, demanding money for pollmoney, [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of Parliament 18 Car.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Not only is the ordinary semilunar band of vascular tissue to be here seen, but a similar broken line of vessels exists on the upper side of the leaf-stalk; thus the whole structure resembles that of a stem or a branch as much as that of a true leaf.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

Catalina Suarez, whom he married, was an amiable and beautiful lady of very estimable character.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I had formerly been well acquainted with him, and, at a time when no friend of mine was allowed access to me, he made me repeated visits at the jail, at the request, as he said, of the District Attorney, to induce me to make a full disclosure, in which case it was intimated I should be let off very easy.
— from Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including A Narrative Of The Voyage And Capture Of The Schooner Pearl by Daniel Drayton

I may be late or very early so—get to bed."
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Mr. Jenkins is the one that ought to be punished—he and Mr. Baxter; and poor ignorant Melgares ought to be let off very easily.
— from The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

It must be laid on very evenly, very rapidly, and after once being painted in and yet moist, a full brush must immediately be used, to let an additional quantity freely and fully drop in; when dry, it will be perfectly even and equally dispersed.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara