places, though, I strained hard to go in then when I did: so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The 48th, Robert de Mountpilier, Osbert de Suffolke; mayor, Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz Richard.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

"Oh dear, oh dear," said Mrs. Tulliver, "to think o' my chany being sold i' that way, and I bought it when I was married, just as you did yours, Jane and Sophy; and I know you didn't like mine, because o' the sprig, but I was fond of it; and there's never been a bit broke, for I've washed it myself; and there's the tulips on the cups, and the roses, as anybody might go and look at 'em for pleasure.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The necessary arrangements involved an immense amount of labor, and her diary says: "My trips from Albany to New York and back are like the flying of the shuttle in the loom of the weaver."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But however great was the power of this woman with eyes of flame in reading the hearts of those whose secrets she wished to divine, she met this time with a countenance of such impassivity that no discovery followed her investigation.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

If thou think wholly upon thyself and upon God, what thou seest out of doors shall move thee little.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Where did she murder them?
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

[60] Without a charge; for all the poor Ten miles around thy sacred shrine Know that thou keepest open door, And praise that generous hand of thine: But let my errand first be told, For bracelets sold to thine this day, So much thou owest me in gold, Hast thou the ready cash to pay?
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

" "As to his doings and his mind," Mr. Roper replied, "no man living knoweth them so well, and if my mean wit, memory, and knowledge could serve me now, could declare so much thereof.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Isn't that dreadful?' said Madge, too much shocked by the tidings in her lover's letter to consider the difference this event might make in her own fortunes.
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Yet even these few persons who do safely make the promised port with all their wishes freighted, soon complain.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Mrs. Killyman Castle, Ireland Savage, John, M.D. Scoltock, Mr. Shrewsbury, four copies Shebbeare, Capt. R.N. Cottage, Llangollen, two copies Shiffer, Mr. Thomas, Denbigh Simpson, Mr. T. Wolverhampton, twelve copies Smale, Mr. Oswestry, two copies Smith, Mrs. Maria, Chirk Smith, Mr. Thomas, Chirk Spencer, Charles, Esq.
— from Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson