'Few consequences of my endeavours to please or to benefit mankind have delighted me more than your friendship thus voluntarily offered, which now I have it I hope to keep, because I hope to continue to deserve it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

22 The year following, in which the consuls were Publius Plautius Proculus and Publius Cornelius Scapula, was remarkable for no one transaction, civil or military, except the sending of a colony to Fregellæ, a district which had belonged to the Sidicinians, and afterwards to the Volscians; and a distribution of meat to the people, made by Marcus Flavius, on occasion of the funeral of his mother.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

ilbury, to fix my attention, gently tipped with her tongue the outer chamber of my ear), the first is a bath...
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

[53] became the cause of many evils to the army; for, though he had in general equal powers, his repute was naturally diminished by the fact that the other was also consul.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

XXIX And sooth to say, why I left you so long, Was for to seeke adventure in strange place, 255 Where Archimago said a felon strong To many knights did daily worke disgrace; But knight he now shall never more deface: Good cause of mine excuse; that mote ye please Well to accept, and evermore embrace 260
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

There was thus in the twelfth century a gradual approximation to modern conditions on many estates; the home farm was worked by hired labourers who received wages; while the villeins had bought themselves off from the obligation of doing customary work by paying a quit-rent.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

It is at this crisis of muscular effort that the abdominal viscera become impacted together; and, acting by their own elasticity against the muscular force, make an exit for themselves through the weakest parts of the abdominal walls, and thus herniae of various kinds are produced.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I hear the cur, or my ears tingle.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

But the fact which clearly opened my eyes to the true state of the case, was the affair of the bullet, found by Mr. G. in the carcass of the horse.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

[525] On these foundations were to follow the literature and the art and science which began the civilisation of modern Europe, the whole presided over and in part ordered and inspired by the recovered use of the great system of ancient Roman law, which too began to be redelivered to Europe early in the twelfth century from Italian Bologna.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Near the crest a whirling cloud of mist enveloped them.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

This may be accounted for, on the supposition that the prejudices of the Egyptians relative to this class of men, extended to both Greece and Italy, and imparted a bias to popular opinion.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

I had no doubt it was a nice place when one got there, but meanwhile I had to make the best use I could of my eyes to find a suitable assortment of hand-and foot-holes.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

The case of merely extinct things, or such as have not yet come into existence, offers indeed no trouble, since of course actually present existence is not necessary to constitute a fact.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

It brought me many quibs, telegrams, and telephones of congratulation on my elevation to the Peerage.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

Of a sudden one side of my face felt as if some one had quickly drawn the tip of a red-hot poker from the corner of my eye to my chin.
— from The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

I called it the centerpiece of my efforts to reform and reorganize the government.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

Therefore, if you be tempted to anxiety and carefulness of mind, either through the earthliness of your dispositions, or the present straits of the time, you who have resigned yourself to Jesus Christ, should call to mind that your heavenly Father careth for you.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

“It’s just as Uncle Isaac says,” said Fred, “just to a T. When I first began to trade, almost everybody had a few bushels of corn to sell, some a good deal; and I never sold a bushel of corn, or meal, except to fishermen from some other place; if any of our people wanted corn, wheat or barley, they went to their neighbors.”
— from Arthur Brown, The Young Captain The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg