About eleven next morning, as soon as she had left her room, she came to tell me her news.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

This illustrious Emperor, although usually at war in all parts of Europe, never missed an opportunity of hunting: so much so that it might be said that he rested himself by galloping through the forests.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Early next morning, according to custom, I took my ride, with four of Skinner’s Horse, and galloped past him, stretched with his followers on the ground not far from my camp, towards his fort.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Thy head is like a rough-hewne statue of jeat, 20 Where marks for eyes, nose, mouth, are yet scarce set; Like the first Chaos, or flat seeming face Of Cynthia, when th'earths shadowes her embrace.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

A stupid convention still looks on material and mathematical processes as somehow distressing and ugly, and systems of philosophy, artificially mechanical, are invented to try to explain natural mechanism away; whereas in no region can the spirit feel so much at home as among natural causes, or realise so well its universal affinities, or so safely enlarge its happiness.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Indiae; opinio est expiatorium esse Gangem; et nec mundum ab omni peccato nec salvum fieri posse, qui non hoc flumine se abluat: quam ob causam ex tota India, &c. 6559 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We got every newspaper morning and evening, and the frequent extras of that period, and pass'd them silently to each other.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

That a letter should be written to Mr. Pickwick early next morning, and forwarded per Dowler, requesting his consent to Sam and Mr. Winkle’s remaining at Bristol, for the purpose and with the object already assigned, and begging an answer by the next coach—, if favourable, the aforesaid parties to remain accordingly, and if not, to return to Bath immediately on the receipt thereof.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

7. hath many stories of such as have thought themselves bewitched by their enemies; and some that would eat no meat as being dead.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

i ka'u mau olelo, kainoa wau e ahai nei ia oe ma kahi nalo, e nana mai ana oe ia'u, nolaila, e noho oe me
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

Cela m'afflige, et pour l'avenir de Alliance anglaise (dont vous savez que j'ai toujours été un grand partisan), et non moins aussi, je l'avoue, pour la cause de vos institutions libres.
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

Experience is gained; we are entrapped no more, at least in the same way; and a group of unfortunates, who have spent half their lives in being browbeaten by their superiors, suddenly start into rank, become superiors themselves, and learn to browbeat in their turn.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

A little boy, with a pair of wings on his shoulders, and the end of a bow peeping up near his neck, stood close behind Marlow, and whispered in his ear, "Never mind all that—only try."
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

Politically and socially one may include among the Loyalists the half-pay officers, from both { 19} navy and army, whom the great peace after Waterloo sent to Canada, as to the other colonies; and certain men of good family, Talbots or Stricklands, who held fast by English conservative tradition, played, where they could, the English gentleman abroad, and incidentally exhibited no mean amount of public spirit.
— from British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

Following the policy adopted by Athelstan, Ethelred now made an offer of high rewards to every warrior, of whatever country, who chose to come and fight under the Saxon standard—many came, and amongst the number, Olave, a celebrated Vikingr, who afterwards obtained the crown of Norway.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

Emperor Nicholas made an example of Poland.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

There is an entirely new musical “atmosphere” in these two works, and the public, as well as the critics, have taken to them as ducks do to water.
— from The Mentor: Russian Music, Vol. 4, Num. 18, Serial No. 118, November 1, 1916 by Henry T. Finck

One of the passengers that left San Francisco with me for San Pedro on October 18th, 1853, who later became a successful citizen of Southern California, was Edward N. McDonald, a native of New York State.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

“Well,” growled the elder, “Noxon made a mess of it to-night.”
— from The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Edward Sylvester Ellis