At noon home to dinner, and after dinner to the office again, and there all the afternoon, and at night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden for my advice about her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker’s late proceedings with them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There were some boys-and-girls’ parties, but they were so few and so delightful that they only made the aching voids between ache the harder.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

"Thus the small service done to the old man was richly rewarded!" said Meta Mogen.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Ram them down the throat of a second snake.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The Tiburtians derided the triumph of Pætelius; "for where," they said, "had he encountered them in the field?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

We dismiss then the opinion of the Ionians, and express a judgment of our own in this matter also, that Egypt is all that land which is inhabited by Egyptians, just as Kilikia is that which is inhabited by Kilikians and Assyria that which is inhabited by Assyrians, and we know of no boundary properly speaking between Asia and Libya except the borders of Egypt.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But permit me to say, my dear Doctor, that this objection is rather formal than substantial.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Experiencing astral death in due time, a being thus passes from the consciousness of astral birth and death to that of physical birth and death.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

How Titus Gave Orders To Demolish The Tower Of Antonia
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

t is supposed to have been the Belladonna , or deadly nightshade, the effects of which are not dissimilar to those of the plant in question.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

With less than one hundred men to defend the town of Lawrence, he offered to lead them and give battle to fourteen hundred men on the banks of the Waukerusia river, and was much vexed when his offer was refused by Gen. Jim Lane and others to whom the defense of the town was confided.
— from John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College by Frederick Douglass

Wilfred would think of me, and wonder if I should come back, and, perhaps, dread the thought of such a thing happening.
— from Roger Trewinion by Joseph Hocking

It was not till the third day that the old man gave his decision.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

Many a prospecting trip did they take on their own account over the network of trails leading from camp to the numerous shafts and tunnels of the mine.
— from Little Tales of The Desert by Ethel Twycross Foster

See yon little window left of the door, ’twas the old man’s bedroom.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

With the cruelty of kindness—often more disastrous than that of real malice—I shrank from having it killed, and consented to let it run about the cabin.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley