O woeful day, O woeful day.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

[‘ dight ’] dihtere m. informant, expositor , WW : steward , Æ (= dihtnere): one who dictates , Guth .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

So home and I found all well, and a deal of work done since I went.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Prize of the wrestling match, the King To Douglas gave a golden ring, While coldly glanced his eye of blue, As frozen drop of wintry dew.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The son of the executed Matthew Maule, while building this house, took the opportunity to construct that recess, and hide away the Indian deed, on which depended the immense land-claim of the Pyncheons.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A respite of three days, obtained with difficulty from the rapacious treasurer, was employed in collecting from their estates a great number of slaves and peasants blindly devoted to the commands of their lords, and armed with the rustic weapons of clubs and axes.
— 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

To be sure, I had heard of the student who, to prevent his falling asleep over his books, held in one hand a ball of copper, the din of whose descent into a basin of the same metal on the floor beside his chair, served effectually to startle him up, if, at any moment, he should be overcome with drowsiness.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

He passed the Alps in the depth of winter; descended the stream of the Rhine, from the fortress of Basil to the marshes of Batavia; reviewed the state of the garrisons; repressed the enterprises of the Germans; and, after establishing along the banks a firm and honorable peace, returned, with incredible speed, to the palace of Milan.
— 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 hence, by the way, it may perchance be why grief, and love, and envy, and anxiety, and all affections of the mind of a similar kind are accompanied with emaciation and decay, or with disordered fluids and crudity, which engender all manner of diseases and consume the body of man.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

It is of a piece with the penal laws that prevailed in England some sixty years ago, when one hundred and sixty different offences were declared by the statute-book to be capital, and the servant-maid who but pilfered a watch was hung beside the murderer of a family.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

He was going to show Himself to the poor souls who in the dark old world days had loved God and Right.
— from The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth

And so, after they've finished depriving our water drop of its mineral nutrients, the droplet gets lighter, rises to the surface, there absorbs more salts left behind through evaporation, gets heavier, sinks again, and brings those tiny animals new elements to absorb.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

If you have nothing particularly to engage you at this moment, I will enter into a detail of what did occur, and of the proofs that the fate of a large portion, among which that of your aunt Elizabeth, was never ascertained.”
— from The Mission; or Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat

For the purpose of identification I am going to mark this document on the right-hand margin as follows: “Washington, D.C., June 2, 1964, Exhibit No. 1, deposition of William D. Crowe, Jr.”, signing my name below that, the document consisting of one page only.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

—Somewhat closely resembling B. chariclea , but with the markings much heavier on the outer margin, and the base of the wings generally more deeply obscured with dark brown.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

If you have nothing particularly to engage you at this moment, I will enter into a detail of what did occur, and of the proofs that the fate of a large portion, among which that of your aunt Elizabeth, was never ascertained."
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

Gold Golden tippet> Gold Orange Wool Black Orange Dun Orange Wool Dk.
— from How to Tie Flies by Ellery Clark Gregg

"Before the appearance in the world of that labour of Cervantes," he said, "it was next to an impossibility for a man to walk the streets with any delight or without danger.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra