Thence to the Duke of York’s lodgings, and did our usual business, and Sir W. Pen telling me that he had this morning spoke of Balty to Sir W. Coventry, and that the thing was done, I did take notice of it also to [Sir] W. Coventry, who told me that he had both the thing and the person in his head before to have done it, which is a double pleasure to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So to my office where all the morning and at the Glass-house, and after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen I carried my wife and her woman to Westminster, they to visit Mrs. Ferrers and Clerke, we to the Duke, where we did our usual business, and afterwards to the Tangier Committee, where among other things we all of us sealed and signed the Contract for building the Mole with my Lord Tiviott, Sir J. Lawson, and Mr. Cholmeley.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there with the rest did our usual business before the Duke, and then with Sir W. Batten back and to his house, where I by sicknesse excused my wife’s coming to them to-day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In order to procure rain the inhabitants of Monyo, a village in the Sagaing district of Upper Burma, chose the largest tamarind-tree near the village and named it the haunt of the spirit ( nat ) who controls the rain.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Next to these is the river Prile 1218 , then the Umbro 1219 , which is navigable, and where the district of Umbria begins, the port of Telamon 1220 , Cosa 1221 of the Volcientes, founded by the Roman 188 people, Graviscæ 1222 , Castrum novum 1223 , Pyrgi 1224 , the river Cæretanus 1225 , and Cære 1226 itself, four miles inland, called Agylla by the Pelasgi who founded it, Alsium 1227 , Fregenæ 1228 , and the river Tiber, 284 1229 miles from the Macra.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

At noon to Broad Street to Sir G. Carteret and Lord Bruncker, and there dined with them, and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall, where the Duke of York is now newly come for this winter, and there did our usual business, which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of York’s house, thinking as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she was not; and more, I was vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth in the room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick: but, Lord!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up and did several businesses, and so with my wife by water to White Hall, she to her father’s, I to the Duke, where we did our usual business.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[pg 364] The same is the first day of unleavened bread, concerning which it is plainly written in Leviticus, 962 ‘In the fourteenth day of the first month, at even, is the Lord's Passover.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

A SECRET RENDEZVOUS 'And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the pastorer, His disciples said unto Him, Where wilt Thou that we go and prepare that Thou mayest eat the passover?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

The reason, therefore, why conversation runs so low at present, is not the defect of understanding, but pride, vanity, ill-nature, affectation, singularity, positiveness, or some other vice, the effect of a wrong education.
— from The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift

Simmons, a receipt for the debt owed us by Manning."
— from Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama by Henry Harrison Lewis

It is this which is the true test of character—the answer which is given, not by the brain, disciplined or undisciplined, but by the whole man, to the revelation of the truth in Jesus Christ.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians by James Denney

This last circumstance we ourselves experienced most remarkably, for after we had unexpectedly fallen in with the land, as has been mentioned in the preceding chapter, we stood away to the southward to run clear of it, and were no sooner advanced into sixty degrees or upwards but we met with much better weather and smoother water than in any other part of the whole passage.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
— from Some Private Views by James Payn

Man is wicked, not because he is born so, but because he is rendered so; the great, the powerful, crush with impunity the indigent and the unhappy; these, at the risk of their lives seek to retaliate, to render back the evil they have received: they attack either openly or in secret a country, who to them is a step-mother, who gives all to some of her children, and deprives the others of every thing: they punish it for its partiality, and clearly shew that the motives borrowed from a life hereafter are impotent against the fury of those passions to which a corrupt administration has given birth; that the terror of the punishments in this world are too feeble against necessity; against criminal habits; against dangerous organization uncorrected by education.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

It was like [273] a dream of unearthly beauty, such as before he had never even imagined, a dream to which the awakening must come.
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain