[1227] In a word, Nihil magis quaerunt quam metum et admirationem hominum ; [1228] and as another hath it, Dici non potest, quam impotenti ardore in homines dominium, et Divinos cultus maligni spiritus affectent .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“You're standing out in this deal, Councillor McGinty,” said the police captain.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

This afternoon after dinner comes Mr. Stephenson, one of the burgesses of the town, to tell me that the Mayor and burgesses did desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship, and were ready at the Mayor’s to make me one.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In an early writing by Professor Mach, after speaking of the way in which by attention we decompose complex musical sounds into their elements, this investigator continues: "It is more than a figure of speech when one says that we 'search' among the sounds.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

On élève toujours des chevaux, même si la voiture rend des services plus performants.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“My dear,” cried Mrs. Small, “I'm sure we're not.”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

At noon home with my people to dinner, and then after dinner comes Mr. Spong to see me, and brings me my Parallelogram, in better order than before, and two or three draughts of the port of Brest, to my great content, and I did call Mr. Gibson to take notice of it, who is very much pleased therewith; and it seems this Parallelogram is not, as Mr. Sheres would, the other day, have persuaded me, the same as a Protractor, which do so much the more make me value it, but of itself it is a most usefull instrument.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thence to the Exchequer about some Tangier businesses, and then home, where to my very great joy I find Balty come home without any hurt, after the utmost imaginable danger he hath gone through in the Henery, being upon the quarterdeck with Harman all the time; and for which service Harman I heard this day commended most seriously and most eminently by the Duke of Yorke.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But if my eyes do cozen me so, and I Giving them no occasion, sure I'll have A whore, shall piss them out next day.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

No servile can attend a shut vowel; hwich, on dhe contrary, must show dhe consonant dhat shuts it.
— from A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston

"Then you are in danger?" cried Mabel, startled.
— from The Disappearing Eye by Fergus Hume

Her color deepening every moment, and her veil drawn closer, Marion shrank from notice, while one person after another elbowed his way forward, and closed the door of his pew, with the authoritative, self-satisfied air of a proprietor, heedless how others might be situated; and still Marion anxiously glanced around her in vain, for the obscurest nook in which to subside unseen.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

3. Discourage, dishearten, dispirit, deject, damp, dampen, chill, make sad, make despondent.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

This man Lloyd it was who, in fact, furnished the only bit of evidence directly connecting Mrs. Surratt with the crime.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

I laughed outright at this, and said to the valet de chambre , who was stationed at the door, “Call mademoiselle’s servants.”
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de