Next day, by order of the Emperor, they burned out Lazarus’ eyes with hot irons and sent him home.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But if he had been orthodox of the orthodox, his argument obviously could have been directed only to the form of doubt it sought to overcome.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

But the samovar was brought in, and at the same moment the gospel-woman, who had been out of the room, returned.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

151 Venus is here said to be one of the names of Diana, because ad res omnes veniret; but she is not supposed to be the same as the mother of Cupid.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When all the dirt has been boiled out of the lace, which you will know to be the case when the water remains perfectly clear, rinse out the soap before you take the lace off the bottle, by plunging it into cold water.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

I had ordered friends to be shut out; but one or two have found the way in; and if you come you shall be admitted: for I know not whom I can see, that will bring more amusement on his tongue, or more kindness in his heart.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But by this may more evidently be discerned, wherein pleasure and wherein curiosity is the object of the senses; for pleasure seeketh objects beautiful, melodious, fragrant, savoury, soft; but curiosity, for trial's sake, the contrary as well, not for the sake of suffering annoyance, but out of the lust of making trial and knowing them.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

While they were considering to put this resolution in practice in the best manner they could, the third man, who was acquainted very well with the sailmaker, came to know of the design, and got leave to be one of the number; and thus they prepared to set out.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Soon the ship was beyond the gun's range, steering broad out of the bay; the blacks thickly clustering round the bowsprit, one moment with taunting cries towards the whites, the next with upthrown gestures hailing the now dusky moors of ocean—cawing crows escaped from the hand of the fowler.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Mebby there might a been one or two green oranges left, but I doubt it.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

He was born and bred in France, had been one of the crew of the French gunboats at Cadiz, where he had been made a prisoner by the Spaniards, and expecting his throat to be cut every day, had contrived to escape on board of the frigate lying in the harbour, and entered into our service, I really believe to save his life.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

De Loo, being importunate, however—"as he usually was," according to his own statement—obtained in Burghley's hand a confirmation, by order of the Queen, of De Loo's—letter of the 26th December.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586c by John Lothrop Motley

But of one thing she was sure.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. Frey

And yet, in the face of that conviction, his contemplated sea-voyage had already become one of the vanished illusions of his life!
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

Standing in the very shadow of the gallows tree—which might have been one of the pines that sheltered the billiard room in which the Vigilance Committee held their conclave—the prisoner gave way to a burst of merriment, so genuine and honest that the judge and jury joined in automatic sympathy.
— from Found at Blazing Star by Bret Harte

Maggot, who was known to be one of the boldest, and, at the same time, one of the most utterly reckless, men in St. Just, was appealed to in the emergency, and, as we have seen, offered to attack the enemy single-handed, on condition that the miners should give him a “pitch” of the good lode they had found—that is, give him the right to work out a certain number of fathoms of ore for himself.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The waves were picking up somewhat in the bargain, which may have been one of the reasons why the ever cautious Jack wanted to get moving: he did not have any particular yearning for a headlong dash amidst rolling billows, such as might cause considerable trouble, even bring risk in their train should they find themselves compelled to make the venture.
— from Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol by Ambrose Newcomb

There were [Pg 86] fifty or more, headed by one of the most ruffianly rascals in the tribe, marching in the direction of our lodge.
— from The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne