"Oh," he said, "she's better fun every year she lives.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Remember, too, that in such frank explanation you are speaking in nine cases out of ten to a good deal clearer understanding than you think and that the child-mind has what your tired soul may have lost faith in,—the Power and the Glory.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He was confined for eleven years in an iron cage invented by himself in the Chateau de Loches, and died soon after he regained his liberty.—B.] by Lord Cottington, in his ‘Dolor de las Tyipas’; [Gripes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To represent me as viewing it with ill-nature, animosity, or partisanship, is merely to do a very foolish thing, which is always a very easy one; and which I have disregarded for eight years, and could disregard for eighty more.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It may happen me, said Beaumains, to be beaten or slain, but I warn you, fair damosel, I will not flee away, a nor leave your company, for all that ye can say; for ever ye say that they will kill me or beat me, but howsomever it happeneth
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Her coarse peasant-dress, little consonant apparently with the refinement of feeling which her face expressed, yet in a strange manner accorded with it.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

They are also to suppose the enemy's army to be small, unarmed, weak, and such as want those conveniences which they know must be wanted, when it is God's will that they shall be beaten; and how valuable God's assistance is, they had experienced in abundance of trials; and those such as were more terrible than war, for that is only against men; but these were against famine and thirst, things indeed that are in their own nature insuperable; as also against mountains, and that sea which afforded them no way for escaping; yet had all these difficulties been conquered by God's gracious kindness to them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

From earliest Youth she had lacked Industry and Application.
— from Fables in Slang by George Ade

It was not merely the man of genius versed in the knowledge and skilled in the control of men's hearts, whose brilliant eloquence shone forth and glowed in this agitating crisis of his own and the world's destiny; nor merely the generous commander-in-chief and the victorious general, addressing soldiers, who had been called by himself to arms and for eight years had followed his banners with daily-increasing enthusiasm.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

The course lay over the route which Le Caron had followed eleven years before, up the Ottawa, up the Mattawa, across the portage to Lake Nipissing, and then down the French River.
— from The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis

She attended the school for eleven years, and at it received her education, never having attended any other institution.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Average of net produce of duty on soap, &c., for eight years ending 1767 £264,902 Average of ditto for eight years ending 1754 228,114 ———— Average increase £36,788 Page 452 Average of net produce of duty on candles, for eight years ending 1767 £155,789 Average of ditto for eight years ending 1754 136,716 ———— Average increase £19,073 Average of net produce of duty on hides, eight years ending 1767 £189,216 ditto eight years ending 1754 168,200 ———— Average increase £21,016 This increase has not arisen from any additional duties.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

** The Declaration of Independence was proclaimed at Williamsburg on the twenty-fifth of July, amid great rejoicings, and from that time until 1779, when the government offices were removed to Richmond, the old Capitol of the commonwealth for eighty years, was the center of Revolutionary energy in Virginia.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

When by the signs I have spoken of you perceive that the critical moment is at hand, at once abandon for ever your former tone.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sirrah Sergeant, these Maps are pretty painted things, but I could ne'er fancy 'em yet: me thinks they're too busy, and full of Circles and Conjurations; they say all the world's in one of them, but I could ne'er find the Counter in the Poultry.
— from The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

The few who stood aloof and mocked at fashions—fashions which fade and fall each year like autumn leaves—were quizzed as ignoramuses, blockheads, zanies tainted with the leprosy of prejudice.
— from The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second by Carlo Gozzi