It might be, also, that the infection might remain in other parts of the same parcel of goods which at first it came in, and which might not be perhaps opened, or at least not fully, or in the clothes of the first infected person; for I cannot think that anybody could be seized with the contagion in a fatal and mortal degree for nine weeks together, and support his state of health so well as even not to discover it to themselves; yet if it were so, the argument is the stronger in favour of what I am saying: namely, that the infection is retained in bodies apparently well, and conveyed from them to those they converse with, while it is known to neither the one nor the other.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

11 Chance so directed it, that this year Cneius Trebonius was tribune of the commons, and he considered that he undertook the patronage of the Trebonian law as a debt due to his name and family.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

places Lucan’s death in the tenth year of Nero’s reign, corresponding with A.U.C. 817.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

QUINCE An you should do it too terribly, you would fright the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Presently the door behind me—the door inward towards the yard of the enclosure—opened.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As these men willingly lent their aid to effect changes of dynasty, Dionysius, in the twelfth year of his exile, collected a body of foreign troops, drove out Nysaeus, the then ruler of Syracuse, again restored his empire, and was re-established as despot.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[1] See Madame de Staël in Delphine , I think; there you have the artifice of plain women.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The only thing you can do is to take your salary," the engineer went on, looking at me; "you keep relying on patronage to faire le carrière as quickly and as easily as possible.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And he wrote a long letter, tenderly affectionate, full of phrases and circumlocutions, metaphors and similes, philosophy and academic gallantry; and I took on myself the responsibility of delivering it to the young woman.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Therefore, all that I can do is to tell you a story,—a most ridiculous one it is, as ever sent a poor fellow out on the gallop for the matter of two hundred miles or so.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

"Nonsense, man!" said David; "I thought that you had too much sense to be afraid of little pieces of pasteboard, with red and black spots on them.
— from Hurrah for New England! Or, The Virginia Boy's Vacation by Cornelia L. (Cornelia Louisa) Tuthill

"What you must do is to tie your house so the wind can't blow it away."
— from The Tale of Brownie Beaver by Arthur Scott Bailey

" "What the deuce is that to you?" "I wish your lordship to understand that whatever comes to my knowledge concerning your proceedings in regard to her, I will report to your father if I see fit.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

"In the meantime," he said cheerfully, "the least we can do is to treat your finger.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

You cross my hand, dears, each of you, with a bit of silver, and all I’ll do is to tell your pretty fortunes, and mum is the word with the gypsy-mother as far as this night’s prank is concerned.”
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

We went downstairs—when mother was "about"—to the row of bread-and-milk basins that I, for one, hated the sight of, except in the season when a sprinkle of strawberries or raspberries and a little sugar were dropped into them; the youngest aunt being unaware of such a weak relaxation of rules.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

The case was decided in the tenth year of Nabonidus.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

I cannot describe all the acts He performed from day to day in these twelve years [of residence at Puri], lest it should make my poem too long.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

He said, 'Brother James, I did it to try you as I was tried.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney