Thence home with the ladies, it being by reason of our staying a great while for the King’s coming, and the length of the play, near nine o’clock before it was done, and so in their coach home, and still in discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morning also.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So called with my coach at my wife’s brother’s lodging, but she was gone newly in a coach homewards, and so I drove hard and overtook her at Temple Bar, and there paid off mine, and went home with her in her coach.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If I call him a scoundrel, it doesn't mean that I called all Poland so.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He stuck his head out through the opened cockpit hatch and stared intently downward.
— from Dave Dawson at Singapore by Robert Sidney Bowen

"The Campbells have a strong individuality, David."
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr

[66] Importance and preparation of hydrochloric acid I will here consider hydrochloric acid somewhat in detail, because it is very important in the digestion of food, being the principal fluid composing the gastric juice of the stomach.
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 1 of 5 by Eugene Christian

Being predicable of all things producing indistinguishable impressions, there naturally grew up ideas of equality in weights, sounds, colours, etc.; and indeed it can scarcely be doubted that the occasional experience of equal weights, sounds, and colours, had a share in developing the abstract conception of equality—that the ideas of equality in size, relations, forces, resistances, and sensible properties in general, were evolved during the same period.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Thence home with the ladies, it being by reason of our staying a great while for the King's coming, and the length of the play, near nine o'clock before it was done, and so in their coach home, and still in discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morning also.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 by Samuel Pepys

Padgett's Creek had a section in de back of de church fer de slaves to sit.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"I think it long till we are afloat," continued he; "and so, I dare say, does my dear nephew.
— from The Rival Crusoes; Or, The Ship Wreck Also A Voyage to Norway; and The Fisherman's Cottage. by Agnes Strickland

Stepping up to the bier, He stood in front of it and bade the carriers halt and set it down.
— from Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master by William Walker Atkinson

In Spain the Omayyad Abderrahmán, a grandson of Caliph Hishám, after surmounting innumerable dangers, and landing in the country without resources and without allies, at the age of twenty-five, in the spring of 756, had rapidly established an independent empire.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke