I am trimming the ship for landing, and we shall leave it immediately after we have landed, taking with us only what we absolutely need.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

She heeded not this, for she feared lest a wife should prove a clog and hindrance to my hopes.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She gone, I to my business and did much, and among other things to-night we were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of a great deal of hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods to-morrow at the candle by the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we shall be found to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices, and perhaps the very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and a shame.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Sixteenth is that the Blissful Trinity, our Maker, in Christ Jesus our Saviour endlessly dwelleth in our soul, worshipfully ruling and protecting all things, us mightily and wisely saving and keeping, for love; and we shall not be overcome of our Enemy.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

“He spoke with enthusiasm of his future wife, of the sweets of ordinary family life, and was so eloquent, so sincere in his ecstasies that by the time we had reached his door, I was in despair.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Labeo, too, says that two men died on one day, and met at a cross-road, and that, being afterwards ordered to return to their bodies, they agreed to be friends for life, and were so till they died again.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now he was specialising in foreign literature, and was said to be writing a thesis.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then, suddenly, my anxiety subsided, a feeling of intense happiness coursed through me, as when a strong medicine begins to take effect and one's pain vanishes: I had formed a resolution to abandon all attempts to go to sleep without seeing Mamma, and had decided to kiss her at all costs, even with the certainty of being in disgrace with her for long afterwards, when she herself came up to bed.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Its body is about two feet long, and when standing in an upright position its height is considerably greater.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

It seemed like fairy land, as we sat there in Dresden.
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

The neck was long and flexible, like a withered stem; the breastplate, the ribs, the shoulder-blades, almost visible through the skin, making a projection which the shadows cast in the hollowed parts accentuated even more strongly; the enlarged knees appeared to be knotted; the abdomen somewhat swollen, the navel projecting, rendering still more prominent the angular leanness of the hips.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

128 Then Eva thanked the Toad-Woman very earnestly, who told her that she must be content to remain with her for that night, and the next morning that she would tell her where the Green Frog lived, and what she should do when she got there.
— from Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land by Mary D. (Mary Dummett) Nauman

But he preferred to go back to his old, free life, and was still a poor young man until two or three years ago, when some land in which he'd invested a few savings, turned out to have gold in it--quantities of gold, gold enough to make a famous mine, and give Mr. Harborough a great fortune.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

‘By the beard of Moula Ali, if I was yonder I would have fired long ago: we shall have no venison for supper I see plainly enough.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

Me oft has fancy ludicrous and wild Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
— from The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper

My amendment reaches the large amount of works concerning science and literature and jurisprudence in ancient and in foreign languages; and why should these be subjected to a duty?
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner