Betimes this morning comes a letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend to me, to tell me that the Dutch fleete did come all into the Hope yesterday noon, and held a fight with our ships from thence till seven at night; that they had burned twelve fire-ships, and we took one of their’s, and burned five of our fire-ships.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But to be forsaken is something very different from deliberately choosing blessed loneliness.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Stretto dalla forza di costui e ridotto allo stremo dovette
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

3 devorst from deeper care , diuert from deepest care.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

A man sitting alone, with a drawn face, deliberately concealed himself behind a newspaper, and an aldermanic-looking gentleman who was entertaining a fluffy-haired young lady from a well-known typewriting office, looked for a moment like an errant school-boy.
— from The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Their order is retrograde, because that after the moneth was halfe expired, or the moone past the full, they reckoned by the daies to come vntill the next change, as seuentéene daies, sixtéene daies, fourtéene daies, &c: as the Gréekes did in the latter decad onelie, for they had no vse of calends.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

The omnibuses which ply between the two extremities bear the inscription “Madeleine—Bastille”; and, beginning at the Bastille, the traveller passes eleven different boulevards, or, rather, one boulevard bearing in succession eleven different names: Beaumarchais, des Filles du Calvaire, du Temple, Saint-Martin, Saint-Denis, Bonne-Nouvelle, Poissonnière, Montmartre, des Italiens, des Capucines, and de la Madeleine.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

From my tent I wander, Seeking only thee, As the day from darkness Comes for stream and tree.
— from Indian Story and Song, from North America by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

Dr. Walker was appointed to superintend this matter, some system being necessary to prevent the same persons from drawing from different commissaries ..."—STEELE to D.H. Cooper, June 15, 1863, Confederate Records , chap.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

He speaks of the great and interesting Kiowa village located some distance from Dodge City about 1868.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

But, my dear fellow, do compare these little larky fevers with the fine, healthy, prostrating colds of the dear old dead days at home.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There were some few of them, however, who were not quite unprepared for the revelation; in particular His, who had half suspected the independence of the cells, because they seemed to develop from dissociated centres; and Forel, who based a similar suspicion on the fact that he had never been able actually to trace a fibre from one cell to another.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

7.— Mountains as they appear in the distance from Dunlow Castle, Lake of Killarney.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford