Harry was equally in his element whether instructing Squire Montague about the investment of capital in Missouri, the improvement of Columbus River, the project he and some gentlemen in New York had for making a shorter Pacific connection with the Mississippi than the present one; or diverting Mrs. Montague with his experience in cooking in camp; or drawing for Miss Alice an amusing picture of the social contrasts of New England and the border where he had been.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

No Person to Game at Cards or Dice for Money .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Nagkalahì ang ámung ihap, His count came out different from mine.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be in a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of doing for me), got me the Chancellor’s recepi to my bill; and so carried it to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by another hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong to go to his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Among other things, a fair chest of drawers for my own chamber, and an Indian gown for myself.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I had bowed to a superior mandate, the command of duty; for my husband's sake, for the sake of the infant, whose little bosom heaved against my swelling heart, I had consented to bid adieu for ever to my native shores, and it seemed both useless and sinful to draw back.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

And the demeanour, changed and cold, Of Douglas fretted Marmion bold,
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

At the parting with him, Barney's words, “Take care of Dick for me,” had moved her to offer with shy courage to go back with him.
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor

As to the situation of the churches, I should propose they be brought as forward as possible into the larger and more open streets; not in obscure lanes, nor where coaches will be much obstructed in the passage: nor are we, I think, too nicely to observe east or west in the position, unless it falls out properly; such fronts as shall happen to lie most open to view should be adorned with porticoes, both for beauty and convenience; which together with handsome spires or lanterns, rising in good proportion above the neighbouring houses (of which I have given several examples in the City of different forms), may be of sufficient ornament to the town, without a great expense for enriching the outward walls of the Churches, in which plainness and duration ought principally, if not wholly, to be studied....
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore

Even the imposture of Kelley will not wholly account for the credulity of Dee; for many years after their separation, and to his last days, Dee sought for and at length found another “Skryer.”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Should you deem Me worthy of your service, you prescribe A course of duty for me; you command
— from Don Carlos: A Play by Friedrich Schiller

Many a case of death from makutu came under Bent's observation during his life among the Maoris.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

My hero was not to be a pirate, but a pious sea-rover, who, with a crew of saints, or at least uncommonly fine fellows, who could be very manly and jolly, and yet all be good Christians, of a somewhat vague and latitudinarian cast of doctrine (for my own was becoming rapidly so), set forth under the red-cross flag to colonize and convert one of my old paradises, a South Sea Island.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

"I am sure," she continued, "I may weel say I am come out of the city of Destruction, for my mother is Mrs. Bat's-eyes, that dwells at Deadman's corner; and Frank Levitt, and Tyburn Tam, they may be likened to Mistrust and Guilt, that came galloping up, and struck the poor pilgrim to the ground with a great club, and stole a bag of silver, which was most of his spending money, and so have they done to many, and will do to more.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott