I also went to Jervas’s, my barber, for my periwigg that was mending there, and there do hear that Jane is quite undone, taking the idle fellow for her husband yet not married, and lay with him several weeks that had another wife and child, and she is now going into Ireland.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Montmagny, Governor, builds road from Upper to Lower Town; receives Ursuline Nuns; receives Madame de la Peltrie; holds grand council at Sillery; Indian name given to.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

I also went to Jervas's, my barber, for my periwigg that was mending there, and there do hear that Jane is quite undone, taking the idle fellow for her husband yet not married, and lay with him several weeks that had another wife and child, and she is now going into Ireland.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The country about Syracuse is neither grand nor beautiful; but the ground is classic ground , and Sicily has not been brought within the reach of an intercourse which, while it polishes and confers substantial benefits, removes the sacred rust of antiquity.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

I very rarely sat into a game in which all of the other players were strangers to me, especially when the game was draw or something else at so much a corner, and so I never got done out of a cent.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

When you have finished pounding, rub it through a clean tammy, add the cream, and salt if necessary; give one boil, and serve very hot, putting in the barley that was taken out first.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

This part of the ocean, which can only relatively be called a shoal, is not generally deeper than 9,600 feet, although in some places the water is more than 12,000 feet deep.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

Their stock of money, though some had been spent on renewing their clothes, and some in needful gratuities to the servants and gendarmes, was sufficient for present needs, and they intended to wear their ordinary dress.
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge