It is no small Misfortune to any who have a just Value for their Time, when this Quality of being so very Circumstantial, and careful to be exact, happens to shew it self in a Man whose Quality obliges them to attend his Proofs, that it is now Day, and the like.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

This training enabled him to write for "The People, the Land and the Book" some very choice articles.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Early in the morning, even before the sun could be seen, Vasudeva came out of the stable and walked over to his friend.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

I was quite relieved to find that it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for, at first, I really thought it was I. There seemed to be something very comical in the reputation of Mr. Brooks of Sheffield, for both the gentlemen laughed heartily when he was mentioned, and Mr. Murdstone was a good deal amused also.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I do not believe that there is a single country in Europe in which the progress of equality has not been preceded or followed by some violent changes in the state of property and persons; and almost all these changes have been attended with much anarchy and license, because they have been made by the least civilized portion of the nation against that which is most civilized.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Who would have ever imagined that he would leave behind such vile creatures of descendants as you all, day after day indulging in obscene and incestuous practices, 'in scraping of the ashes' and in philandering with brothers-in-law.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

At his leisure, he employed the interval in braiding something very carefully in his watches below.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

And my mind requires to be so very clear, you know!
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It is therefore patent that in R 33 and R 34 we possess two airships which can cross to America to-morrow as far as actual distance is concerned, but various other conditions are necessary before such voyages can be undertaken with any prospects of commercial success.
— from British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by George Whale

The same paper, referring to the proposed enterprise, gives the following details about railway and other tunnels: “The cost of existing tunnels has been governed by such various conditions of locality and soil, that they can have little bearing upon the present question.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

So the apples for my breakfast were cooked during last night's supper; and during the breakfast there will be some vegetable cooking for lunch.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

In order to secure the best results in cake baking the subject of Flour must be studied very carefully.
— from Book of American Baking A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc. by Various

The plates, I need hardly remark, had to be set very close one to the other!
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland

There must have been some vague consciousness of this her share in the guilt of the transaction in Elizabeth's mind, even while the trial of Essex was going on.
— from Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

"The place was areek with blood," St. Vincent cried passionately, springing to his feet.
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

Moreton Corbet was begun by Sir Robert Corbet in 1606, but he died of the plague before the building was finished; his brother Sir Vincent Corbet continued the work, but the house was never finished or inhabited, and now the rambling ruins are but the home of owls and other birds.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey