The first object I met in the coffee-room was a person who expressed a great grief for the death of the French King; but upon his explaining himself, I found his sorrow did not arise from the loss of the monarch, but for his having sold out of the Bank about three days before he heard the news of it.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

So they all three quietly put up their silver, as did myself, and marched out of the room, the eldest and gravest going first, with myself closing up the rear, who thought I could not do better than follow the example of such grave and warrantable personages.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Between monarch and people there was ever a great gulf fixed.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

Gladly would he have taken her, if by so doing he could have brought back her old enthusiasm and girlish glee, for Elizabeth had been the life of the
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

The wilderness grew wilder and more dense, the Mohawks entering a great gorge, forested heavily, down the center of which flowed a brook of black water.
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

If the glass and electrodes are getting gas free, the discharge will continue to pass by the spark gap, but if gas is still being freely given off, then in perhaps three minutes the discharge will return to the tube, and pumping must be recommenced.
— from On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

And so, in October 1789, when Grenville, the secretary of state, sent to Dorchester the draft of the measure passed in 1791 to divide Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, and invited such observations as 'experience and local knowledge may suggest,' Dorchester wrote: I have to submit to the wisdom of His Majesty's councils, whether it may not be { 4} advisable to establish a general government for His Majesty's dominions upon this continent, as well as a governor-general, whereby the united exertions of His Majesty's North American Provinces may more effectually be directed to the general interest and to the preservation of the unity of the Empire.
— from The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart) Colquhoun

No-one was ever a greater general favourite.
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

To explain the reasons that now carried me to Spain, its necessary to go back to the month of August of this year, [73] when the English, without any previous declaration of war, or even any good ground for it, had attacked the King of Spain's fleet on the coast of Sicily, and entirely ruined it, which so exasperated the Cardinal Alberoni, who then governed Spain with the title of first Minister, that he resolv'd to assist King James, and so revenge himself on the Whigs, who had been the occasion of the breach of faith he complained of....
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson