"Put on your cloak and hood, or whatever it pleases you to wear!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

According to this version: At the uttermost crisis, when Cromwell and his Officers were met on the one hand, and the fifty or sixty Rump Members on the other, it was suddenly told Cromwell that the Rump in its despair was answering in a very singular way; that in their splenetic envious despair, to keep out the Army at least, these men were hurrying through the House a kind of Reform Bill,—Parliament to be chosen by the whole of England; equable electoral division into districts; free suffrage, and the rest of it!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Clark, June 30, 1806] Descended the mountain to Travellers rest leaveing those tremendious mountanes behind us-in passing of which we have experiensed Cold and hunger of which I shall ever remember.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

However, at noon I did, upon a small invitation of Sir W. Pen’s, go and dine with Sir W. Coventry at his office, where great good cheer and many pleasant stories of Sir W. Coventry; but I had no pleasure in them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Elizabeth, though she did not credit above half of what was said, believed enough to make her former assurance of her sister's ruin more certain; and even Jane, who believed still less of it, became almost hopeless, more especially as the time was now come when, if they had gone to Scotland, which she had never before entirely despaired of, they must in all probability have gained some news of them.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

(Of these troops some carry lances and are protected by cuirasses and helmets of wrought iron mail.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

From such things they suspected that some one must be the ruler of the heavenly bodies who could stay their course at his own will, and he must be strong and mighty; and of him they thought that, if he ruled the prime elements, he must also have been before the heavenly bodies, and they saw that, if he ruled the course of the heavenly bodies, he must rule the sunshine, and the dew of the heavens, and the products of the earth that follow them; and thus, also, the winds of the air and therewith the storms of the sea.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The boy had become afraid; he called and cried after him: ‘Oh, wild man, do not go away, or I shall be beaten!’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Cortes and his officers were completely armed; yet this would not appear strange to Motecusuma, as he had never seen them otherwise whenever they paid him a visit.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

But the King (of late) made a hazard of both the Kingdoms, of Cicilie and his own, with offering but to imprison Philaster .
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher

The man who had been so happy, so worshipped by his two helpmates, whose heart had been kept so warm by the love of two dear creatures all his own, was now nothing more than an old, miserable, stammering, lost being, who shivered in his icy solitude.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

And when he had gone one of the first acts of the king was to seize as an "escheat" the Castle and honour of Wallingford which Brian Fitz-Count and Maude his wife, having entered the religious life, had ceased to hold.
— from Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

[Pg 13] LEVELLING WITH ELISHA The Bald-faced Kid shivered as he roosted on the paddock fence, for the dawn was raw and cold and his overcoat was hanging in the back room of a pawnbroker's establishment some two hundred miles away.
— from Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

“Do go, Mary; and then I might run down and put up for a day or two at the 'Cow and Harrow,' or whatever the local inn calls itself, to have a stroll with you among those brown and yellow woods she writes about.”
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Mr. Kibbock came, and hearing of what had passed, pondered for some time, and then said, “All was very right!
— from The Annals of the Parish Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt

Grammatical etymology treats solely of the grammatical changes in words, and does not concern itself with their derivation; historical etymology treats of the structure, composition, and history of words.
— from New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton

It was a peace made with the Politiques and Huguenots by the Court; it is significant of the new state of affairs that the League openly refused to be bound by it, and continued a harassing, objectless warfare.
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

Observe, how very politely he takes off his hat to that Frenchman, with whom he has just settled accounts; he beats Johnny Crapeau at his own weapons.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat