The following letters give sonic notion of a day's occupation at that time:(3) 'MY DEAREST MASTER,—I am well.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

"How very well you speak French," Lady Grizzel said, who herself spoke the tongue in an Edinburgh accent most remarkable to hear.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

When Robert entered the sitting-room he was surprised to find little George seated opposite to a woman who was doing the honors of a shabby repast, spread upon a dirty table-cloth, and flanked by a pewter beer measure.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Looke upon the faythfull lover, Griefe stands paynted in his face, 15 Groanes, and Teares and sighs discover That they are his onely grace: Hee must weepe as children doe That will in the fashion wooe.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

It is a small mind that fears lest greediness should take root in the child who is fit for something better.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[1038] But whether in the future life God shall also be seen with the bodily eye, this is now our question.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Did you not tell me, Sally, that she was going to New York?" "Yes," answered Sally Tracy, "she has been making all manner of preparations, for, as you know, her brother is imprisoned in the city; and since her acceptance of the pleasure coach from the Mayor of New York (which he presented her with when he was released from Litchfield gaol), she has been pining to go to him.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

And as far as I'm concerned, it's far easier to believe that she did it, than that it was the work of some foolish little girls scarcely out of their teens!
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

I have taken pleasure in preserving them in this form, because I cherish a hope that they may fall like good seed into many hearts, and bring forth future harvests in the great field of humanity.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

Among the wonders of the sixteenth century was the appearance of a new star in the northern horizon, which, shining at first with a feeble light, gradually surpassed the brightness of the planet Jupiter; and then changing its color from white to yellow and from yellow to red, after seventeen months, faded away from the sight, and has not since appeared.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

The long axis is vertical; the mouth-end is above, the tail-end below; a mouth, surrounded by threads of beard; b anus, c gill-opening (porus branchialis), d gill-crate, e stomach, f liver, g small intestine, h branchial cavity, i chorda (axial rod), underneath it the aorta; k aortic arches, l trunk of the branchial artery, m swellings on its branches, n vena cava, o visceral vein.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

Sir John read passages of a letter (which he did not put into Beckley’s hand, as he did the other) from Lord Grenville, saying nearly the same things.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson