He is a man of vast wealth, holding, as I have been told, an interest in over forty different sugar plantations in Louisiana.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

His distress became so intolerable, that he applied to Dr. Swinfen, physician in Lichfield, his god-father, and put into his hands a state of his case, written in Latin.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

D. s. p. in London, Jan. 1868.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

At Trianon, the queen, at first before forty persons and then before a more numerous audience, performs Colette in "Le Devin de Village," Gotte, in "La Gageure imprévue," Rosine in "Le Barbier de Seville," Pierette in "Le Chasseur et la Laitière," 2273 while the other comedians consist of the principal men of the court, the Comte d'Artois, the Comtes d'Adhémar and de Vaudreuil, the Comtesse de Guiche, and the Canoness de Polignac.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

On April 14th, just above Sicuani, we saw fields where habas beans had been gathered and the dried stalks piled in little stacks.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

"But, Daddy," she protested in low tones, "we've got our pass."
— from The Littlest Rebel by Edward Peple

“Come, come, my dear sir,” put in La Sauvage, seizing a moment when Schmucke laid his head back in the great chair to pour a spoonful of soup into his mouth.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"O Master, if thine heart could love us yet, Spite of things left undone, and wrongly done, Some place in loving hearts then should we get, For thou, sweet-souled, didst never stand alone, But knew'st the joy and woe of many an one— —By lovers dead, who live through thee we pray, Help thou us singers of an empty day!" Fearest thou, Book, what answer thou mayst gain Lest he should scorn thee, and thereof thou die?
— from A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris

After having been long in unknown regions, time and distance seem of little consequence when we return to those previously known; and thus the whole day soon passed in looking for my former track.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell