Beginning with this time, when his influential friend probably died, Rabourdin saw the end of his own rapid progress.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Mr. Davies recollected several of Johnson's remarkable sayings, and was one of the best of the many imitators of his voice and manner, while relating them.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

At noon home to dinner, and there find Mr. Andrews, and Pierce and Hollyard, and they dined with us and merry, but we did rise soon for saving of my wife’s seeing a new play this afternoon, and so away by coach, and left her at Mrs. Pierces, myself to the Excise Office about business, and thence to the Temple to walk a little only, and then to Westminster to pass away time till anon, and here I went to Mrs. Martin’s to thank her for her oysters....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As a dying request she urged her husband, who was investigating affairs in the island, to do his utmost to induce the United States to intervene—hence this oration.]
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Multi autem et sunt et fuerunt, qui eam, quam dico, tranquillitatem expetentes a negotiis publicis se removerint ad otiumque perfugerint; in his et nobilissimi philosophi longeque principes et quidam homines severi et graves nec populi nec principum mores ferre potuerunt, vixeruntque non nulli in agris delectati re sua familiari.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Le Duc received similar orders, and calling Poinsinet I gave him ten Louis, and begged him to look out for some other lodging that very evening.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The various writers whose studies we have just mentioned arrived at this conclusion only through [Pg 203] facts taken from very diverse religions, some of which even correspond to a civilization that is already far advanced: such is the case, for example, with the Mexican religions, of which Preuss makes great use.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

She was very grateful to the lawyer, who also took her part against the Legion of Honor, was admitted to her confidential circle and told her the secrets of the Restaud household, one evening in the winter of 1830 when Ernest de Restaud, son of the Comtesse Anastasie, was paying court to Camille whom he finally married.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Northwest, twenty miles away across the Pampa Colorada, a reddish desert, rose snow-capped Solimana.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

This land is, to most devout persons, altogether isolated and apart, as the place of a divine revelation such as no other part of earth has known.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

Not once did Rajah spoil this exhibition, which was continued throughout an entire summer, nor commit any overt act of impatience, indifference or meanness.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

You decide right, signor; at sixty-three the marriage noose and the hempen noose should always go together.
— from A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts by Hannah Cowley