Thus they are taught what is called the hypothetical language for many of their best years—a language which was originally composed at a time when the country was in a very different state of civilisation to what it is at present, a state which has long since disappeared and been superseded.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

This work recommended as among the latest and best devices for coffee making, all those manufactured or sold in this country by Adams & Son; the English coffee biggin; General Hutchinson's coffee pot and urn, combining De Belloy's and Rumford's ideas; Le Brun's Cafetiére for making coffee by distillation and by steam pressure, passing it directly into the cup; a Vienna coffee-making machine, and a Russian coffee reversible pot called the Potsdam.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I does he think, or conceive, or imagine, that I am a horse, or an ass, or a goat, to trudge backwards and forwards, and upwards and downwards, and by sea and by land; at his will and pleasure?
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

At noon home to dinner, and being set with my wife in the kitchen my father comes and sat down there and dined with us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The king had increased the land dues and burdens so much, that each of his earls had greater power and income than the kings had before; and when that became known at Throndhjem, many great men joined the king and took his service.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Dare any be so bold to sound retreat or parley when I command them kill?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The newspapers at the north that condemned the delay at Brandy Station, and sneered at the idea that the army needed a base of supplies, simply exhibited their profound ignorance of the first principles of campaigning.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

She must be back, she said, to meet Dick and be sure that the supper was ready in good time.
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

And she had turned and run out of the room before Miss Minchin could stop her or do anything but stare after her with stony anger.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Without harsh denunciation, and by suggestion rather than assertion, the administration of John Quincy Adams was grouped with the administration of his father.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

Maud said, disturbed at Boldero's serious air; 'how can I care about you, if you won't come and see me?
— from Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society by Cunningham, H. S. (Henry Stewart), Sir

They must be planted in October, in drills, two inches deep, the claws of the roots downward, and be shaded when they begin to bud.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

Seeing that Aloys was quiet, he shrugged his shoulders in derision and began singing bad songs, which all had pretty much the same burden:-- "A bright boy will run through Many a shoe; An old fool will tear Never a pair."
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

It is, I know, the fashion to treat South African difficulties as being simple of solution.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The annals of crime contain the records of many parricides, some that have been premeditated with devilish art, but scarce one that a daughter has wrought by the most loathsome of coward’s weapons.
— from Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley