In the interval between the time of the dialogue in the last chapter, and this day of public entertainment, Sophia had, from certain obscure hints thrown out by her aunt, collected some apprehension that the sagacious lady suspected her passion for Jones.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Dum infinita medicamenta miscent, laudem sibi comparare student, et in hoc studio alter alterum superare conatur, dum quisque quo plura miscuerit, eo se doctiorem putet, inde fit ut suam prodant inscitiam, dum ostentant peritiam, et se ridiculos exhibeant, &c. 4172 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A summary of the research done on Primitive Economics, showing incidentally, how little real, sound work has been accomplished, will be found in Pater W. Kopper’s “ Die Ethnologische Wirtschaftsforschung ” in Anthropos , X—XI, 1915–16, pp.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

“Well, put down our pair, Egerton,” said Lord Fitz-Heron.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Cassius dismissed or punished every soldier who was seen at Daphne.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And this sudden display of purposeful energy shook the incredulity of the most sceptical more than any scientific demonstration of the value of these coal-outcrops could have done.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

The wild blood of the old moss-troopers still pulsed in the veins of the Maxwells, and the impoverished gentleman, who listened with interest, sighed as he remembered the sordid monotony of his own career, during which he had, by dint of painful economy, somewhat lightened the burden with which his inheritance had been saddled by the recklessness of his forbears.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

Allowing three or four days for it to reach him (it might just miss the boat from Naples) she ought to be able to count upon seeing him within ten days or perhaps even sooner.
— from The Erratic Flame by Ysabel De Teresa

Dickens O Phillips, Edwin, Shiktehawk Bridge N S Phillipps, Thomas, St. Pierre les Becquets Q Phillipps, Mrs. Grace, River Philip N S Phillips, Oran, Burns O Phillips, Robert, Bennies Corners O Phillips, William, Belfast O Philpott, Edward, Foxboro’ O Picotte, Chas.,
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

A cook or a careful housewife has many [Pg 263] distractions of puddings, entrées, sauces, savouries, and what you will.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

For many months I slept on the ground, and even then the mosquito-net afforded me a high degree of protection; even so I had malaria ten times, for in the field it is not always possible to employ preventive measures to the extent that is desirable from a hygienic point of view.
— from My Reminiscences of East Africa by General von (Paul Emil) Lettow-Vorbeck

" What wonder, then, that when, for the former inexorable dispensation of Providence, Emerson substituted his general spiritual and natural laws, he should not have felt the spirit of worship fail within him?
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana