The first-act scene is laid in the Exchange coffee house of Philadelphia, during the period of Washington's first administration.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Cotgrave has or primes , "but even now," etc.; and has also de plain , "presently, immediately, out of hand."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I came here on purpose to meet them at the station, and then overslept myself... in my chair.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He (the priests said) first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea, until as he sailed he came to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals: then secondly, after he had returned to Egypt, according to the report of the priests he took a great army 86 and marched over the continent, subduing every nation which stood in his way: and those of them whom he found valiant and fighting desperately for their freedom, in their lands he set up pillars which told by inscriptions his own name and the name of his country, and how he had subdued them by his power; but as to those of whose cities he obtained possession without fighting or with ease, on their pillars he inscribed words after the same tenor as he did for the nations which had shown themselves courageous, and in addition he drew upon them the hidden parts of a woman, desiring to signify by this that the people were cowards and effeminate. 103.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He (the priests said) first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea, until as he sailed he came to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals: then secondly, after he had returned to Egypt, according to the report of the priests he took a great army and marched over the continent, subduing every nation which stood in his way: and those of them whom he found valiant and fighting desperately for their freedom, in their lands he set up pillars which told by inscriptions his own name and the name of his country, and how he had subdued them by his power; but as to those of whose cities he obtained possession without fighting or with ease, on their pillars he inscribed words after the same tenor as he did for the nations which had shown themselves courageous, and in addition he drew upon them the hidden parts of a woman, desiring to signify by this that the people were cowards and effeminate.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

I do not rhyme to that dull elf, Who cannot image to himself, That, all through Flodden’s dismal night, Wilton was foremost in the fight; That when brave Surrey’s steed was slain, ’Twas Wilton mounted him again; ’Twas Wilton’s brand that deepest hewed, Amid the spearmen’s stubborn wood: Unnamed by Holinshed or Hall, He was the living soul of all; That, after fight, his faith made plain, He won his rank and lands again; And charged his old paternal shield With bearings won on Flodden Field.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Each of us would then refer to a confused heap of papers at his side, which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half burnt in lighting candles, stuck for weeks into the looking-glass, and otherwise damaged.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

To suppose that all is mere technical acquirement in delineation or touch, working through and addressing itself to the intelligence, on the one side, or a merely poetical, or what may be called literary interest, addressed also to the pure intelligence, on the other;—this is the way of most spectators, and of many critics, who have never caught sight, all the time, of that true pictorial quality which lies between (unique pledge of the possession of the pictorial gift) the inventive or creative handling of pure line and colour, which, as almost always in Dutch painting, as often also in the works of Titian or Veronese, is quite independent of anything definitely poetical in the subject it accompanies.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

For, sweet, to feel is better than to know, And wisdom is a childless heritage, One pulse of passion—youth’s first fiery glow,— Are worth the hoarded proverbs of the sage: Vex not thy soul with dead philosophy, Have we not lips to kiss with, hearts to love and eyes to see!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

' The philosophic traveller,-- Once more within his country cold,-- Himself of pruning-hook laid hold, And made a use most free and bold; Prescribed to friends, and counsel'd neighbours To imitate his pruning labours.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

There are two good popular accounts of the controversy: 'What is Darwinism?' by Dr Charles Hodge of Princetown, and 'Die Darwin'schen Theorien' of Rudolf Schmid.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

The favor enjoyed by Monsieur Soymonof at court, her own position as maid-of-honor to the Empress Marie, her birth, fortune, extreme youth, and many individual qualifications, all alike rendered her a fitting match for any man in the empire.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The seats in the boxes of the Restoration Theatre were let out severally to separate persons, and although the King had, of course, his own private box when he saw a play, yet when he was not present even the royal box was apportioned to individuals as the rest.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn

The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

When Lord Campbell argued the great Privilege case, he obtained permission to appear without a wig; but this concession to a counsel—who, on that occasion, spoke for sixteen hours—was accompanied with an intimation that "it was not to be drawn into precedent."
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

This meek soldier of Christ had often parted warriors in battle and gone unarmed to meet a pagan brigand, whom he converted to be a Christian and a monk.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

No contemporary historian or poet alludes to them.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Then the Porter rang his bell, as at such times he is wont, and there came to the door one of the damsels, whose name was Humble-mind; and to her the Porter said, Go tell it within, that Christiana, the wife of Christian, and her children, are come hither on pilgrimage.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan