After sipping a glass of port-sangaree prepared by the skilful hands of Mr. Thomas Waite, I besought that worthy successor and representative of so many historic personages to conduct me over their time-honored mansion.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Italian company arrived from Dresden, and fascinated the Leipzig audience by their consummate mastery of their art.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

His condition don't permit me to have such a thought; and that, and the whole series of his conduct, convinces me of the contrary; and you would have me invite him to come down, would you?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Of course many of the feminine qualities will not bring us back to the position which has required them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Whatever philosophers, therefore, thought concerning the supreme God, that He is both the maker of all created things, [Pg 319] the light by which things are known, and the good in reference to which things are to be done; that we have in Him the first principle of nature, the truth of doctrine, and the happiness of life,—whether these philosophers may be more suitably called Platonists, or whether they may give some other name to their sect; whether, we say, that only the chief men of the Ionic school, such as Plato himself, and they who have well understood him, have thought thus; or whether we also include the Italic school, on account of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, and all who may have held like opinions; and, lastly, whether also we include all who have been held wise men and philosophers among all nations who are discovered to have seen and taught this, be they Atlantics, Libyans, Egyptians, Indians, Persians, Chaldeans, Scythians, Gauls, Spaniards, or of other nations,—we prefer these to all other philosophers, and confess that they approach nearest to us.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I wonder myself and cannot make out to this day how I came to say that to him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this hall he ordained three judgment seats; to wit, at the entry on the right hand, the Common Pleas, where civil matters are to be pleaded, specially such as touch lands or contracts: at the upper end of the hall, on the right hand, or south-east corner, the King’s Bench, where pleas of the crown have their hearing; and on the left hand, or south-west corner, sitteth the lord chancellor, accompanied with the master of the rolls, and other men, learned for the most part in the civil law, and called masters of the chancery, which have the king’s fee.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

These annual gatherings were very largely in the nature of mutual admiration societies among the men, who consumed much of the time in complimenting each other and the rest of it in long-winded orations.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I, who knew the very courageous madness of the man, said: What is the matter?
— from Protagoras by Plato

Falmouth (now Portland) bombarded and burnt, by Captain Mowat, of the British Navy.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

In spring and in early summer the rise of temperature during the early part of the day and the fall of the temperature from afternoon to next morning, are regular and continuous; the corresponding movements of the tree are also regular.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

I was sitting with my gaze directed toward the bluff, and when it instantly disappeared, I rubbed my eyes to convince myself of their truthfulness, and as I did so our boat came gradually to a stand on the edge of what appeared to be an unfathomable abyss.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

It means that sun-dried grass and scrub and the very leaves upon the trees have become brittle and inflammable as tinder; and that the bush fires, for the most part self-generated,—such as those which of old so greatly affrighted Hanno and his Carthaginian mariners on the West Coast of Africa—are ubiquitous,—are columns of smoke by day and pillars of fire by night.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

This contained most of the bodies of those slain in the revolution—about two hundred and fifty.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

They are also fond of grease, and wear caps made of the fat of oxen.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

“When I heard the name of Wingate the first time that I come to the valley and stopped all night at Clayton’s I was goin’ to ask him all about you and tell him what I knowed; but he made me mad, when he cut me off that way, and I didn’t.
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

They are either specially sent and paid for the administration of their consular office ( Consules missi ), or they are appointed from individuals, in most cases merchants, residing in the district for which they are to administer the consular office ( Consules electi ).
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

He was loudly cheered as he reined in and scanned the rebel columns moving over the downs.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping