Coming to St. James’s, I hear that the Queen did sleep five hours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, and to sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to the King’s or my Lady Suffolk’s eleven; but not so strong as it was.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

She had lost her look of exasperation, but now she put on an air of cold and determined resolution, which was still more formidable.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[116] A celebrated prehistoric ruin, probably of a temple built by the early Britons, near Salisbury, England.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

'T was a raw day of Autumn's bleak beginning, When nights are equal, but not so the days; The Parcae then cut short the further spinning Of seamen's fates, and the loud tempests raise The waters, and repentance for past sinning In all, who o'er the great deep take their ways: They vow to amend their lives, and yet they don't; Because if drown'd, they can't—if spared, they won't.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It’s surprising enough; but not so surprising as that Matthew should be at the bottom of it, him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Examples: each, every, either, both, neither, some, any, such, none, other, another, each other, one another.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

This was explanatory, but not satisfactory.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

If the cause, assigned for any effect, be not sufficient to produce it, we must either reject that cause, or add to it such qualities as will give it a just proportion to the effect.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the Eight Banners numbered scarcely more than a quarter of a million, and about that time the Abbé Huc declared that "the Manchu nationality is destroyed beyond recovery.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

The wind continued this morning, as it was last night, easterly, but not sufficing for Whitelocke to go on his voyage.
— from A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Bulstrode Whitlocke

[127] Certes these Southrons lack much the habits of the wood and wilderness,—for here is a man of taste and genius, a fine scholar and a most interesting companion, haunted with fears that would be entertained by no shopkeeper from the Luckenbooths or the Saut Market.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

It is to mistake the character of Southey's mind, which is elevated but not sustained by the higher modes of enthusiasm, to think otherwise.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

After a time he is encouraged by new suras to preach publicly, and does so.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

Some of these young people, it is true, looked as though they would like to be elsewhere, but no such defection was possible, as well they knew, for that would mean the official displeasure of Sir Julius, with, possibly, consequent stoppage of leave, and even—such things had been known—nasty remarks in confidential reports.
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

Following the direction of his gaze, Morton saw a tall man in the uniform of an army officer of rank, and, leaning on his arm, a light and delicate female figure, elegantly, but not showily dressed.
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman