No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;—but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The blind , the deaf , and aged cripple Do here resort and Coffee tipple.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The King hath yesterday in Council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Through great impatience of his grieved hed, etc., through inability to endure (the pain of) his wounded head, he would have cast down his rider, etc. 155.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

El muchacho crecía y no cesaba de hacer rayas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And often, from the side of my eye, I could detect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The Persian alliance restored the troops of the East to the defence of Europe: and Maurice, who had supported ten years the insolence of the chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the Barbarians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Quia per inspeccionem carte Domini Henrici Regis, filii Imperatricis, quondam Domini Hibernie preavi nostri, nobis constat quod Custumanni nostri Waterford legem
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Very respectfully, “ ‘Your obedient servant, “ ‘ W. R. Shafter , “ ‘ Major-General, U. S. A. ’ “Following is the Spanish reply which Colonel Dorst has returned at 6.30 P. M. : “ ‘ Santiago de Cuba , 2 P. M. , July 3, 1898.
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis

Chief Deitsch here read the dispatch under which the arrest was made.
— from The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: the Headless Horror. by Unknown

Ercilla deeply felt this neglect; but nothing could damp his romantic attachment to his cold-hearted sovereign, whom he still persisted in celebrating in the sequel of his poem.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

The table to which Charles Doe here refers is only to twenty of Mr. Bunyan's books.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

His works on the history of Spain, the companions of Columbus and the Alhambra , were compiled during his residence in Spain, where he had access to the national archives, and where he became as familiar with the life of the people as it was possible for a stranger to become.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 21, 1895 by Various

An' their cwombs be a-zet in their bunches o' heäir, An' their currels do hang roun' their necks lily-white, An' their cheäks they be rwosy, their shoulders be beäre, Their looks they be merry, their limbs they be light.
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

He saw the ringlet of soft golden hair, the large blue eyes, the little dimpled shoulder peeping out from its calico dress; he reached forth his hands to press them down upon these pretty shoulders, for the vision was palpable as life.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Yet still some old associations survived with the dramatic bard, some reveries of the winter theatre of “the Blackfriars,” and the summer Globe “open to the sky,” for we are told that two or three of his noblest dramas were composed during his retirement; and he retained his unbroken love for old companionship to the last, for, by a credible tradition, Shakespeare died of a fever contracted by convivial indulgence at a joyous meeting with his beloved cronies Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli