As also with all her old kindnesses to me, and my ill-using of her from the beginning, and the many temptations she hath refused out of faithfulness to me, whereof several she was particular in, and especially from my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitation of Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the courtship of my Lord Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

7.] H2 anchor Chapter IV: The Cruelty, Follies And Murder Of Commodus.—Part I. The Cruelty, Follies, And Murder Of Commodus—Election Of Pertinax—His Attempts To Reform The State—His Assassination By The Praetorian Guards.
— 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

He's a capital fellow, and I wish we could get acquainted.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

2 [A; a12] pull and fluff up cotton fibers and loosen them from the seeds prior to putting them in a deseeding device.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She was more astonished than afraid to see me trembling, and though she defended herself successfully she did not lose countenance for a moment, and in spite of my ardent gaze she did not turn her face away.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Howes, p. 869. tells us that John Tuce, ‘dweling neere Shorditch Church’, first attained perfection in the manufacture of cloth of tissue.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

, there are 688 people classified as “wild” in the Census figures as to Samar, and 265,549 are put down as civilized; the total of population being 266,237.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

No one is now likely to turn to the writer of the early eighteenth century for a system of the universe, least of all to a writer so incapable of exact or systematic thinking as Alexander Pope.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Two negroes from Kentucky, who were being cared for at the house of Mr. F. D. Parish, were protected from arrest by their benefactor in February, 1845.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

The priestess, whose clear-cut features and two lovely black eyes betrayed a mixture of Semitic blood, was examining the 'turnip'—as she called the watch—when Leonora, saying 'Mum's the word,' rather violently called my attention (with her elbow) to a strange parcel lying apart from the rest.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

“I come to enjoy perpetual rejuvenescence, and to learn to live in the sun rather than in a fog of philosophy that gives us little but cold feet and swollen heads.”
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

She is under commission, mark you, to pick a quarrel and fight us for this coast, for all the fair talk of alliance and the chopping up of the Spanish Netherlands between Paris and Holland——" "What of Roussilac?" broke in La Salle.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

Perhaps the keen Muscovite read something of this in my face, for he now clinked his glass against mine, and filled it with beautifully golden-coloured Château Yquem, bright, cool, and sparkling from its white crystal flask; and to this champagne soon succeeded; unwisely for me, though it was champagne in its best condition, that is, after being just six years in bottle, as Yourivitch assured us; and now our conversation became more gay and varied, and, as I thought, decidedly more pleasant.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

The one kind of owl which has been known to couple in the Zoological Gardens was the Eagle Owl (Bubo maximus); and this species shows a special inclination to breed in captivity; for a pair at Arundel Castle, kept more nearly in a state of nature "than ever fell to the lot of an animal deprived of its liberty" (18/35.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Hour after hour went by, and with the time her sense of dreamy contentment faded away.
— from 'Tilda Jane: An Orphan in Search of a Home. A Story for Boys and Girls by Marshall Saunders

Pluto, during the night, had prepared Proserpine for the worst, and had endeavoured to persuade her that his love would ever compensate for all annoyances.
— from The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I drew a Bill on Congress for a considerable Sum to be advanced me here, and paid in provisions for the French Troops.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce