This day come our new cook maid Mary, commended by Mrs. Batters.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a contemporary or nearly contemporary event.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Generality resides in application to the comprehension of new cases, not in constituent parts.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

And Traddles, firing up as if he were plunging into a Parliamentary Debate, really did come out nobly: confirming me in good round terms, and in a plain sensible practical manner, that evidently made a favourable impression.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Speak,” said Allworthy, “I am conscious of no crime, and cannot be afraid to hear.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Every quack makes promises of this sort; their patients are cured or not cured as it happens, and provided that they pay heavily the doctor is ready enough to lay the fault, not on his ignorance, but at the door of his poor deluded patient.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Her name was upon the committees of numberless charities connected with the Church-dances, theatricals, or bazaars—and she never lent her name unless sure beforehand that everything had been thoroughly organized.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Educational Window Exhibit This window won first prize for the western district in the $2,000 window-trimming contest of National Coffee Week in 1920.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It shows a want of confidence—’ ‘Oh, no,’ cried she, eagerly interrupting me; ‘it was not that.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nevertheless, he was going to the top of that mountain, clouds or no clouds.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne

Thinking that he referred to himself these children of Nature contemplated his angular form doubtfully and shook their heads.
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Sailing for Wilmington with a full cargo, she was captured off the coast of North Carolina.
— from The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by J. (John) Wilkinson

In spite of the fact that after the first few hours of the engagement one or more flanks had at all times to be defended as well as the front, the enemy succeeded in cutting off no considerable body of troops; and yet no withdraw a [293] took place until the close of the action, except in close contact with the enemy.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

Miss Jessen, the secretary of the Danish Council of Nurses, called at once and arranged a most delightful programme for every day of our stay in Copenhagen, bringing us invitations to see over the most important hospitals, and the Finsen Light Institute, the old Guildhall, the picture gallery, and anything else any of us wanted to see.
— from Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan

They say, that Mr. Crawford’s predecessor in Paris, was chancellor Livingston, this gentleman was deaf; both Livingston and Crawford were introduced to the Emperor Napoleon at the same time; the emperor, who could carry on no conversation with either of them, expressed his surprise, that the United States had sent him a deaf and dumb embassy.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

The cession of North Carolina was made February 25, 1790; that of Georgia, April 24, 1802.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

Such are famous contradictions of national conduct.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Now the very gist and crux of this whole question of Language consists in confounding or not confounding a case like this with mere Onomatopoieia, or the direct and simple imitation of one sound by another.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various