In our way Mr. Carteret did give me mighty thanks for my care and pains for him, and is mightily pleased, though the truth is, my Lady Jem. hath carried herself with mighty discretion and gravity, not being forward at all in any degree, but mighty serious in her answers to him, as by what he says and I observed, I collect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Dinhay buut mukanlat sa íyang kwintas, S.o. tried to pull her necklace off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Van knelt down by my side.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The operator refused point blank to turn over the key to Captain Comstock as directed by me, stating that his orders from the War Department were not to give it to anybody—the commanding general or any one else.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But not every man is heroic and these can hardly be blamed, for if all the alleged confessions were not secured by actual torture, they were made through fear of it, since in 1896 there was in Manila the legal practice of causing bodily suffering by mediæval methods supplemented by torments devised by modern science.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

X. Yen Ch'iu said, 'It is not that I do not delight in your doctrines, but my strength is insufficient.'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

380 He that has light within his own deer brest May sit i'th center, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day Sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Half a dozen of us, myself included, were floundering up to our waists; the others were lucky enough to avoid the ditch by making straight for the path.
— from The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

—The Folkething is composed of deputies chosen directly by manhood suffrage for a term of three years.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

"De same whar she was born, massa, an' whar her dear bressed ma stay when she livin' heyah."
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

Canal-boats, drawn by mules, swim by, feeling their way along like blind men led by dogs.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The pastor writes: “We have received that invaluable gift, the cabinet organ donated by Mr. S. T. Gordon in aid of the day and Sunday-school and church work in this field.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 05, May, 1879 by Various

But my honour and my duty bid me stay----" She paused, and thoughtfully followed the direction of the walk, clasping her small hands together, and bending down her eyes, as one whose mind, unaccustomed to decide between contending arguments, is bewildered by number and reiteration, but not convinced.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

They also reported the following resolution, drawn by Mr. Sumner, which was unanimously agreed to.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

When we neared the coast, it required but the smallest imagination to picture myself in a savage country, for over the rocks ran and scrambled dark brown men, stark naked, not even the proverbial string of beads to adorn them.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes