Ferrers telling me, among other Court passages, how about a month ago, at a ball at Court, a child was dropped by one of the ladies in dancing, but nobody knew who, it being taken up by somebody in their handkercher.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

'Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the l-least of these'—it's not very complimentary, but one of the least is duly grateful.” “Signor Rivarez,” the Cardinal interrupted, “I have come here on your account—not on my own.
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

However, taking it for granted, that both these Translations we're not made out of the Original Arabick , but out of the Latin ; I did not question but they had mistaken the Sense of the Author in many places.
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

This extinction Buddha called Nirvâna, or “the blowing out of the lamp;” it does not necessarily mean the annihilation of consciousness altogether, but only of a finite form of it, which may be as the light of a lamp compared with the light of day.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

It is not yet the “season” and many of the hotels are closed, but the Belvue, one of the largest, is doing business and we have an elaborate luncheon here which costs more than we like to pay.
— from On Old-World Highways A Book of Motor Rambles in France and Germany and the Record of a Pilgrimage from Land's End to John O'Groats in Britain by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

“If I told you why I wished it, you would be surprised indeed, nor can I myself understand; but, of a verity, my greatest wish to be out of this life is due to the fact that I crave the association of those very enemies I have been taught to hate.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs