So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At last, in the evening after supper, some Ionians out of curiosity (I should explain that this was not in winter but in summer), brought out their mats and slept in the open air that they might watch him and see whether he would stand all night.
— from Symposium by Plato

The windows were open, and the cool night wind came in strong enough to flutter a white covering now and then, and to shake the loose casements.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

“I thank you for the warning,” said the count; “I shall endeavor to be prepared for all suppositions.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But there are others in which this religious character is somewhat effaced, though it has not disappeared completely.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The personal construction is sometimes extended to other verbs or verbal expressions, especially in poetry: as, colligor , O. A. 2, 6, 61, I am inferred , for colligitur .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them, occasions a very important inequality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

What execration could be too great, if that man were the most intelligent, the wisest of his century, one of the most dignified in rank in the land, clad in spotless ermine, the emblem of purity, in short, the Minister of Justice!
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

And when it's been put into my head that Ann ought to marry you, what can I say except that it would serve her right? TANNER.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

At the sight that met my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Then you’d better be off, and leave me to find my way back as best I can,” I said, endeavouring to preserve an outward show of calmness.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

By means of this libration we are enabled to see the annular mountain Malapert (which occasionally conceals the moon’s south pole), the arctic landscape round the crater of Gioja, and the large gray plane near Endymion, which conceals in superficial extent the mare vaporum .
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

The kings of Arabia who against my agreement, sinned, whom in the midst of battle alive I had captured in hand, to make that Bitrichiti Heavy burdens I caused them to carry and I caused them to take building its brick work with dancing and music with joy and shouting from the found ation to its roof I built A Mesopotamian king, who had the genius to conceive the dazzling idea of communicating with the readers of this distant generation by taking impressions of carpet tacks on cubes of unbaked clay is surely entitled to a certain veneration, and when he associates dancing with such commendable actions as making porters of his royal captives it is not becoming in us meaner mortals to set up a contrary opinion.
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

The government of the Creeks is still essentially the same which they exercised on the banks of the Chattahoochee and the plains of Georgia.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

And though our blessed Saviour be never [Pg 41] noted to have laughed, yet his continuance [countenance] is said ever to be smiling.
— from Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

Of course, I should expect to act according to the rules of your office, and I know that you are paid by your manager, but—if you can put me in possession of all the movements of Lucian Davlin for the next week, in addition to the salary paid you by your head officials, I will promise you one thousand dollars.
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

Why, one night—don't ye remember?—when he came home, carryin', mebbee, more canvas than was seamanlike, and you shet him out the house, and laid for him with a broomstick, or one o' them crokay mallets, I disremember which, and he kem over to me, ole Captain Dick, and I sez to him, sez I, 'Why, Roger, them's only love pats, and yer condishun is such ez to make any woman mad-like.'
— from Drift from Two Shores by Bret Harte

In another chapter I shall endeavour to describe the dangers and difficulties
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

"Well, child, I shall enjoin this pilgrimage on her as a penance."
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This consequence of Christ being the medium of the communication of grace, in force of his being its meritorious cause, is so evident that we know of none who has ever disputed it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various