Simonides objected to Hieron, he hath all the pleasures of the world, [3731] in lectis eburneis dormit, vinum phialis bibit, optimis unguentis delibuitur , he knows not the affliction of Joseph, stretching himself on ivory beds, and singing to the sound of the viol.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mr. Fairlie leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, said we both of us did honour to human nature, and then repeated his suggestion as coolly as if neither Sir Percival nor I had said a word in opposition to it.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Now, both of us, Dare, have a sister who'll be there, besides all our old friends....
— from The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey

"Someone thought out this plan of using narcophin and scopolamine to cause the twilight sleep, to keep Rawaruska just on the borderland of unconsciousness, destroying her memory and producing forgetfulness.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Here on earth 'He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death'; His humility gave His death its value, and so became our redemption.
— from Humility: The Beauty of Holiness by Andrew Murray

They took its success for granted and saved their help and their business for young men, such as the energetic but otherwise untalented Dick Holden, of whom less was expected.
— from The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller

Protestantism shook loose the bonds of union; Dissent has long been busy in organizing a mechanism for the exercise of religious control, wholly independent of law; in America, a separate organization for that purpose already exists; and if anything is to be hoped from the Anti-State-Church Association—or, as it has been newly named, "The Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control"—we shall presently have a separate organization here also.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

This is the case of our heroine, now about twenty-eight years of age, tall, rather lusty, and a figure that speaks true symmetry; hand- some, a slight tinge of the brunette in her complexion, with very fine dark hair, fine hazel eyes, very dark, and finely arch'd eye brows; indeed, she has been a very fine woman, and is far from being in her wane of beauty; her hair, indeed, is remarkably fine, and such a length, as to be able to be interwoven with her once maidenhead thicket , now grown to a fine bushy arbour surrounding the blissful cell of the blind sovereign of wanton sports, where he reigns predominant over every sense, ( 75 ) sense, and subjects all the rest to that of feeling; here he keeps his court and holds his revels; come then ye followers of Co- mus, plunge your burning plough shares within the betwiching circle, and slake the hot breathing of untamed desire; here dance the round of joy till sense grows giddy in the maze, and taste the delicious transports of maddening delight, till pan- ting nature striking the alarm , proclaims a dying pause to her own music, and pours forth the flood of mingled rapture; she has good breasts, and her limbs are finely turn'd and proportioned; she is of a very good disposition, and a most agreeable companion, and is at present in keep- ing by a Mr. M—lls; but being fond of the glow of youth, and the manly embrace of full vigour, she indulges variety, and is various in her expectation for so doing.
— from Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 by Anonymous

A large proportion of the smaller lakes are dammed up by barriers of unstratified drift, having the exact character of the moraines of glaciers, and are termed by geologists “morainic,” but some of them are true rock-basins, and would hold water even if all the loose drift now resting on their margins were removed.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The war broke out under Duke Hoel in 1076 when he invoked the aid of Philip I. against William the Conqueror.
— from Brittany by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I could a’most see it; and we both of us did hear the door slam.”
— from By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn

" "I wonder," Olive rested her elbows on the table, and spoke down at her interlaced fingers; "wonder why it is we both of us dislike her so.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray