By and by comes Mr. Clerke, our solicitor, who brings us a release from our adverse atturney, we paying the fees of the commission, which comes to five marks, and pay the charges of these fellows, which are called the commissioners, but are the most rake-shamed rogues that ever I saw in my life; so he showed them this release, and they seemed satisfied, and went away with him to their atturney to be paid by him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Hold!” cried Defarge, reddening a little as if he felt charged with cowardice; “I too, my dear, will stop at nothing.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Let us now join these three observations, and see what conclusion we can draw from them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

After plane geometry, I said, we proceeded at once to B solids in revolution, instead of taking solids in themselves; whereas after the second dimension the third, which is concerned with cubes and dimensions of depth, ought to have followed.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

A Gothic historian applauds the consulship of Theodoric as the height of all temporal glory and greatness; the king of Italy himself congratulated those annual favorites of fortune who, without the cares, enjoyed the splendor of the throne; and at the end of a thousand years, two consuls were created by the sovereigns of Rome and Constantinople, for the sole purpose of giving a date to the year, and a festival to the people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We are not informed whether his father and uncle shared in such employments;[18] and the story of their services rendered to the Kaan in promoting the capture of the city of Siang-yang, by the construction of powerful engines of attack, is too much perplexed by difficulties of chronology to be cited with confidence.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

This platform was altogether covered with a variety of hellish objects,—large and small trumpets, huge slaughtering knives, and burnt hearts of Indians who had been sacrificed: everything clotted with coagulated blood, cursed to the sight, and creating horror in the mind.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Like many other incorrect statements, there is a certain modicum of truth in the statement, for no doubt whilst arms themselves Page 340 {340} had a more or less shifting character, crests were certainly not "fixed" to any greater extent.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Her conversation was charming; she made me spend two most delightful hours, and did not leave me till twelve o’clock.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As a rule, priests proper, frowned upon as non-producers, were recruited from the lower classes, were celibate, unintellectual, idle, and immoral.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

96 The Churel, who corresponds to the Jakhâî, Jokhâî, Mukâî, or Navalâî of Bombay, 97 is the ghost of a woman dying while pregnant, or on the day of the child’s birth, or within the prescribed period of impurity.
— from The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Crooke

We may be sure that in early times the whole body of Canons were constantly resident.
— from History of the Cathedral Church of Wells As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

Then the Prince suddenly recovered his memory, and cried: “What can have made me forget such an important thing?
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

There are certain philosophers who hold that nothing which any single one of us observes or can observe, gives the slightest reason for supposing that any of his own perceptions are generally connected with certain perceptions in other people.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

In Galicia alone, fifty fortresses, the strongholds of tyranny, were razed to the ground, and fifteen hundred malefactors, it was computed, were compelled to fly the kingdom.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

Portmanteaus, with every modern convenience, were ordered; an experienced courier, who could talk all languages and cook French dishes if required, was invited to name his terms.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In such cases, vegetable diet, with vegetable acids, would remove the scorbutic condition without curing the hospital gangrene.
— from Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons by William W. Day

Mary Newton and her children were covered as much as possible with the blankets, and then they swung the boat rapidly toward the eastern shore.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

'Of course we can take him,' Miss Lyman said hastily to Mr. Lincoln.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

all the time I was seeing, in obedience to orders, two parties of the crew going forward at the double, and I knew that the captain was communicating with the two men at the wheel.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn