The whole of what Elizabeth had already heard, his claims on Mr. Darcy, and all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed; and everybody was pleased to know how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they had known anything of the matter.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

11. of the chapter on Moral Discipline in the first part of his Analogy.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

By his Majesty’s Lieutenant Governor, and, Commander in Chief, of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia , A PROCLAMATION, Publishing the Rewards given for apprehending, or killing, Pyrates. W Hereas, by an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of Assembly, begun at the Capital in Williamsburgh , the eleventh Day of November , in the fifth Year of his Majesty’s Reign, entituled, An Act to encourage the apprehending and destroying of Pyrates : It is, amongst other Things enacted, that all and every Person, or Persons, who, from and after the fourteenth Day of November , in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighteen, and before the fourteenth Day of November , which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, shall take any Pyrate, or Pyrates, on the Sea or Land, or in Case of Resistance, shall kill any such Pyrate, or Pyrates, between the Degrees of thirty four, and thirty nine, of Northern Latitude, and within one hundred Leagues of the Continent of Virginia , or within the Provinces of Virginia , or North-Carolina , upon the Conviction, or making due Proof of the killing of all, and every such Pyrate, and Pyrates, before the Governor and Council, shall be entitled to have, and receive out of the publick Money, in the Hands of the Treasurer of this Colony, the several Rewards following; that is to say, for Edward Teach , commonly call’d Captain Teach , or Black-Beard , one hundred Pounds, for every other Commander of a Pyrate Ship, Sloop, or Vessel, forty Pounds; for every Lieutenant, Master, or Quarter-Master, Boatswain, or Carpenter, twenty Pounds; for every other inferior Officer, sixteen Pounds, and for every private Man taken on Board such Ship, Sloop, or Vessel, ten Pounds; and, that for every Pyrate, which shall be taken by any Ship, Sloop or Vessel, belonging to this Colony, or North-Carolina , within the Time aforesaid, in any Place whatsoever, the like Rewards shall be paid according to the Quality and Condition of such Pyrates.
— 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

I shifted myself, and so to see Mrs. Turner, and Mercer appearing over the way, called her in, and sat and talked, and then home to my house by and by, and there supped and talked mighty merry, and then broke up and to bed, being a little vexed at what W. Hewer tells me Sir John Shaw did this day in my absence say at the Board, complaining of my doing of him injury and the board permitting it, whereas they had more reason to except against his attributing that to me alone which I could not do but with their condent and direction, it being to very good service to the King, and which I shall be proud to have imputed to me alone.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Is it possible that you are Phoebe Pyncheon, only child of my dear cousin and classmate, Arthur?
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Arter a few unimportant obserwations from the two wirtuous females as has been examined here to-day, the ladies gets into a very great state o’ admiration at the honourable conduct of Mr. Dodson and Fogg—them two gen’l’men as is settin’ near you now.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point—that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams, so that I feared to exercise this faculty; for, as Midas turned all things to gold that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of in the darkness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye; and by a process apparently no less inevitable, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were drawn out by the fierce chemistry of my dreams into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

But Lady Darnford went into the company, and told them the cause of my detention; for, it seems, my dear master loved me too well, to keep to himself the disappointment my not being here to receive him, was to him; and they had all given the two Misses Boroughs and Mr. Perry, the Stamford guests, such a character of me, that they said they were impatient to see me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

When breakfast was over, I followed Mrs. Mirvan out of the parlour, and begged her to lose no time in pleading the cause of Madame Duval with the Captain.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The cause of my deep agitation being thus shut from view, I sought eagerly the volume which discussed the paintings and their histories.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I am sure there would be nails in it that would catch on my dress.
— from Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

With one compassing arm he guarded me, and with the other kept people at a proper distance, and I must confer, brilliant as the spectacle was, the greatest pleasure was derived by the conduct of my dear and manly boy."
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann

Camp-Fire Club of Michigan, Detroit.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

In the course of many days and weeks sunrise had advanced its quarters from northeast to southeast, sunset had receded from northwest to southwest; but Egdon had hardly heeded the change.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

"It appeared also tolerably clear that when the lady friend of the deceased quitted Munich so privately, it was to Vienna she repaired, and from Vienna comes the letter demanding the certificates of Madame Duval's death.
— from The Parisians — Volume 10 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"On landing," he says, "an exceeding great company of most dismal spectators were led to behold us in our captivated condition.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

98 Its friendly character is not, like the hostile character of moral disapproval, disguised by any apparently contradictory facts.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

That is the talk of my friends, and it is not bluff.' That night I cooked our modest dinner, and we smoked our pipes with the stove door open and the good smell of woodsmoke in our nostrils.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan