Mr. Wilkins, who wished to go with them, stayed on Lady Caroline's advice with Mrs. Fisher in order to cheer her solitude, and though he left off cheering her about eleven to go and look for Mrs. Arbuthnot, so as for a space to cheer her too, thus dividing himself impartially between these solitary ladies, he came back again presently mopping his forehead and continued with Mrs. Fisher where he had left off, for this time Mrs. Arbuthnot had hidden successfully.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Just so he tells us in ch[*illegible*]u that the people of Hermenia are called Hermins, and elsewhere that the people of Tebet are called Tebet.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It makes a man's inside feel very cosy, he adds, even turning a weak head, and is strongly diuretic.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Thou wert, and nothing was there besides, out of which Thou createdst heaven and earth; things of two sorts; one near Thee, the other near to nothing; one to which Thou alone shouldest be superior; the other, to which nothing should be inferior.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The Nurse and Mother Bunch began to comfort her, and explain that the doctor thought she had the scarlatina; not at all badly; but that if any of the others caught it, nobody could guess how bad they would be; especially Mamma, who had just been ill; and so she was to be rolled up in her blankets, and put into a carriage, and taken to her uncle's; and there she would stay till she was not only well, but could safely come home without carrying infection about with her.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

For a minute the room was very still; then John said slowly,—but she could feel it cost him an effort to express no displeasure,— "Well, I don't know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw my deductions from it.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

For some, when they read, or hear these words, conceive that God like a man or some mass endued with unbounded power, by some new and sudden resolution, did, exterior to itself, as it were at a certain distance, create heaven and earth, two great bodies above and below, wherein all things were to be contained.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Each time she checked herself; and each time Vosh discovered the snags ahead of him, and avoided them.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

Then he says—I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley

California has about eighty thousand tons of wheat to ship to Europe.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

" After this, considering him to be of a temper easy to be led to his duty by reason, but by no means to be compelled, he always endeavored to persuade rather than to command or force him to any thing; and now looking upon the instruction and tuition of his youth to be of greater difficulty and importance, than to be wholly trusted to the ordinary masters in music and poetry, and the common school subjects, and to require, as Sophocles says, The bridle and the rudder too, he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most celebrated philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he took to instruct his son.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

What admirable courage in him, to come here and endeavor to work his way up from the very bottom!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“Mother was very cross, and Aline certainly had an exciting time.”
— from The Child of the Moat: A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D. by I. B. (Ian Bernard) Stoughton Holborn

But the mean relatively to ourselves must not be so found ; for it does not follow, supposing ten minæ is too large a quantity to eat and two too small, that the trainer will order his man six; because for the person who is to take it this also may be too much or too little: for Milo it would be too little, but for a man just commencing his athletic exercises too much: similarly too of the exercises themselves, as running or wrestling.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

They clasped hands and Enid turned away.
— from The Deserted Yacht Madge Sterling Series, #2 by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

But the British commander had already effected the junction with his legion, and was at hand in greater force than our partisan dreamed of.
— from The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms

So I went to the foot of the stairs, called him, and explained that I did not care to touch the wheel on account of the gun, so he had better come down and put it away, which he did.
— from A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich