Thence walked through the ducking-pond fields; but they are so altered since my father used to carry us to Islington, to the old man’s, at the King’s Head, to eat cakes and ale (his name was Pitts) that I did not know which was the ducking-pond nor where I was.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They assemble from each city at a general congress, and select what city they please for their place of meeting.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The "Tribune" was equally cogent and inspiriting—and the "Times," "Evening Post," and other principal papers, were not a whit behind.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The two chief innkeepers at Worthing at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of its prosperity were named Hogsflesh and Bacon, and there was a rhyme concerning them which was well known (see notes to "Mr. H." in Vol.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word, I touched off one of my electric connections and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Triumphant on the bosom of the storm, Glances the fire-clad eagle's wheeling form; Eastward, in long perspective glittering, shine The wood-crowned cliffs that o'er the lake recline; Those Eastern cliffs a hundred streams unfold, At once to pillars turned that flame with gold; Behind his sail the peasant strives to shun
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Only the sea, whose waves were rippled by the night breeze, as though awaking from the heat of the day, sent its hoarse roar, its eternal chant, as it rolled against the jagged rocks.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

It demanded a scientific exploration of all Siberia and Kamchatka,—not only an account of these regions based on astronomical determinations and geodetic surveys, on minute descriptions and artistically executed landscape pictures, on barometric, thermometric, and aerometric observations, as well as investigations in all the branches of natural history, but it demanded also a detailed presentation of the ethnography, colonization, and history of the country, together with a multitude of special investigations in widely different directions.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The kiddey was chaunted for a toby; his examination concerning a highway robbery was published in the papers.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

alii intervalla quaedam habent, ut etiam consueta administrent, alii in continuo delirio sunt, &c. 2600 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[66] Since we must all live, in the civilized organization of society, on the existing capital; and since those who have only come out even have not accumulated any of the capital, have no claim to own it, and cannot leave it to their children; and since those who own land have parted with their capital for it, which capital has passed back through other hands into industrial employment, how is a man who has inherited neither land nor capital to secure a living?
— from What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by William Graham Sumner

If in chicken salad, for example, only the white meat of chicken, especially bought for the purpose, and only the expensive inside stems of expensive celery are used, it can hardly be cheaper than plain chicken.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

The meaning may be, love is not innate in us, and co-essential to our nature, but begins at a certain time from some external cause, and being always subject to the operations of time, suffers change and diminution.
— from Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson

The end came all at once.
— from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad

“You see,” said the boy, as he took a piece of ice out of the water pitcher and held it in his bosom, where the plaster came off, “when there is an evening concert at the park, the boys and girls go off in couples and sit under the trees in the dark, or on the grass, where no one can see them very well, and they take hold of hands and put their arms around each other, and all the time they are scared for fear they will be caught, and ordered to quit.
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The classical case is recalled, of the almost absolutely anesthetic boy who, with eyes closed, at once fell asleep.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

The Militia of each county are assembled and commanded by a Lieutenant; they must be divided into regiments and companies.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

"I once knew a father," the unreal editor continued, "a most doting and devoted father, who, when he bent over the beds of his children to bid them good-night, and found them 'high sorrowful and cloyed,' as the little ones are apt to be after a hard day's pleasure, used to bid them 'Think about Christmas.'
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Nouvelle édition, corrigée et considérablement augmentée, par Ernest Thorin, et précédée d'une notice sur l'enseignement et les études dans les Facultés de droit,
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin

Economic conditions assumed a new aspect because of the advent of "King Cotton," and the sudden ascendency of the "lower South."
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks