We broke up late, and I to dinner at home, where my brother Tom and Mr. Cooke came and dined with me, but I could not be merry for my business, but to my office again after dinner, and they two and my wife abroad.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The same northern energy which had built up learning and literature so rapidly in Northumbria was instrumental in pulling it down again.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The evil blazes up like a fire; and they will not extinguish it, either by restricting a man's use of his own property, or by another remedy: What other?
— from The Republic by Plato

The steeds came by us like a couple of chain-shot—neck and neck; and now we could see nothing but their backs, and their hind hoofs flying in the air.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

You must have been under lock and key, dear boy, to know it equal to
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

When David had sent Abner away, Joab, the of his army, came immediately to Hebron; he had understood that Abner had been with David, and had parted with him a little before under leagues and agreements that the government should be delivered up to David, he feared lest David should place Abner, who had assisted him to gain the kingdom, in the first rank of dignity, especially since he was a shrewd man in other respects, in understanding affairs, and in managing them artfully, as proper seasons should require, and that he should himself be put lower, and be deprived of the command of the army; so he took a knavish and a wicked course.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

An you come to that, sister, I have more occasion of patience, to be used like an overgrown schoolboy, as I am by you.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Ech, they won't be half an hour before us, let alone an hour.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The building foods which are necessary for the developing child must be given in the simplest form, milk and eggs being used liberally and meat sparingly to obviate any unnecessary tax being placed upon the kidneys.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

We now formed in more proper order and went through the church to the Beauclerc's grave, on the broad slab of which there burned unceasing lamps, and sweet incense renewed every hour, and at the edge of which there was ever some brother of the house telling his beads and praying for the defunct king, the founder of the house.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

We saved her between us, Larpent and I. She belongs to Larpent—not to me."
— from Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

but I got tied up on an inspection tour of some emergency fields on the Johore side, and didn't get back until long after I expected to.
— from Dave Dawson at Singapore by Robert Sidney Bowen

A few gladiators—such champions as Patroclus of Thrace—are at times allowed to do pretty much as they please in their free time, and hence could possibly be on hand to take part in such a brawl, but most of us will be under lock and guard."
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Presently the boat’s lug-sail, which spread above and before us like a great blot of ghostly grey against the starlit sky, began perceptibly to pale and brighten until it stood out clear and distinct, bathed in richest primrose light, with the shadow of the mast drawn across it in ebony-black.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

You cannot deny that this thing happened without asserting no less than seven blessed saints to have been unprincipled liars, and that would be a very horrible heresy—" "Yet, Mother, you know as well as I do—" "—And thus Epimenides, another excellently spoken-of saint, slept at Athens for fifty-seven years.
— from The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

Now Face-of-god sat him down on the turf-seat with his bright helm on his head and his naked sword across his knees, while the horns blew up loudly, and when they had done, the elder of the Dale-wardens cried out for silence.
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris