I know that many will believe my words, but others, who do not occupy themselves with mysteries, will laugh thereat.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

These movements may be observed with dogs and puppies in their play.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

A vintner has wheeled in, on Patriot truck, beverage of wine: "Drink not, my b
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

His troop came in for the hottest part of the battle on Waterloo Day, and suffered considerably in loss of men and horses.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Her retirement did not take place before the month of May, 1528; this is proved by a letter from Fox, Bishop of Hereford, to Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, dated the 4th of May, in that year, in which the writer, who had just returned from Rome, whither he had been sent to negotiate the king’s divorce, gives an account of his landing [Pg liii] at Sandwich on the 2nd, of his arrival on the same night at Greenwich, where the king then was, and of the order he received from him to go to the apartments of Anne Boleyn, which were in the Tiltyard, and inform her how anxious he had been to hasten the arrival of the legate, and how much he was rejoiced by it.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

In Red Cross street, on the west side from St. Giles’ churchyard up to the said cross, be many fair houses built outward, with divers alleys turning into a large plot of ground, called the Jews’ Garden, as being the only place appointed them in England, wherein to bury their dead, till the year 1177, the 24th of Henry II., that it was permitted to them (after long suit to the king and parliament at Oxford) to have a special place assigned them in every quarter where they dwelt.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

O brother! ’tis one thing for a soldier to gather laurels,—and ’tis another to scatter cypress.——[ Who told thee, my dear Toby, that cypress was used by the antients on mournful occasions? ] ——’Tis one thing, brother Shandy, for a soldier to hazard his own life—to leap first down into the trench, where he is sure to be cut in pieces:——’Tis one 222 thing, from public spirit and a thirst of glory, to enter the breach the first man,—to stand in the foremost rank, and march bravely on with drums and trumpets, and colours flying about his ears:——’Tis one thing, I say, brother Shandy, to do this,—and ’tis another thing to reflect on the miseries of war;—to view the desolations of whole countries, and consider the intolerable fatigues and hardships which the soldier himself, the instrument who works them, is forced (for sixpence a day, if he can get it) to undergo.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

—'Tis one thing, brother Shandy, for a soldier to hazard his own life—to leap first down into the trench, where he is sure to be cut in pieces:—'Tis one thing, from public spirit and a thirst of glory, to enter the breach the first man,—to stand in the foremost rank, and march bravely on with drums and trumpets, and colours flying about his ears:—'Tis one thing, I say, brother Shandy, to do this,—and 'tis another thing to reflect on the miseries of war;—to view the desolations of whole countries, and consider the intolerable fatigues and hardships which the soldier himself, the instrument who works them, is forced (for sixpence a day, if he can get it) to undergo.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If they refused to hear mass, they were sentenced to the bastinado, of which dreadful punishment the following is a description.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Reveille is sounded at daybreak, and the men who have not been on watch during the night turn out of their hammocks, lash and stow their bedding and get early coffee and biscuit.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson

You are so full of your plans and proposals that you have not yet told me where you have been or what doing these six years.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

‘Something may possibly be said, out of doors, after what passed in the other room, which renders it desirable that we should be off without delay, and quite clear of town,’ said Mr. Westwood.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

From this law it does not of necessity follow, however, that it would be impossible to make a machine or device that would convert continuously into available energy or work, say, the enormous amounts of heat energy of the earth or of large bodies of water ("dissipated energy") which would thereby be cooled below the temperatures of their surroundings.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

But what shal I seye of delices of body, of whiche delices the desiringes ben ful of anguissh, and the fulfillinges of hem ben ful of penaunce?
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

Anyhow, I know he oughtn't to have been in it; and 'Paterfamilias' and 'Patriot' wrote letters to the Times about British officers who didn't mind their own business.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson