Give me some music- music, moody food Of us that trade in love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But there being so few of us that could dance, and my wife not being very well, we had not much pleasure in the dancing: there was Knepp also, by which with much pleasure we did sing a little, and so, about ten o’clock, I took coach with my wife and Deb., and so home, and there to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If they all proved fruitless or unsuccessful, the occasion was worthy of the emperor himself, who gave the signal of advancing to the standard and main body, which he led in person.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Thus we may see how probable it is, that people that were naturally free, and by their own consent either submitted to the government of their father, or united together out of different families to make a government, should generally put the rule into one man's hands, and chuse to be under the conduct of a single person, without so much as by express conditions limiting or regulating his power, which they thought safe enough in his honesty and prudence; though they never dreamed of monarchy being lure Divino, which we never heard of among mankind, till it was revealed to us by the divinity of this last age; nor ever allowed paternal power to have a right to dominion, or to be the foundation of all government.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Exit an ATTENDANT What figure of us think you he will bear?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Are you fonder of us than Granny was of you when you were little?” Phyllis asked.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

One merchant, who had a large sloop, seeing our condition, and knowing we wanted to go to Georgia, told four of us that his vessel was going there; and, if we would work on board and load her, he would give us our passage free.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Now, therefore, since I am suspected by those very men whose being is owing to my labors, come thou, as it is reasonable to hope thou wilt; thou, I say, who showedst me that fire at mount Sinai, and madest me to hear its voice, and to see the several wonders which that place afforded thou who commandedst me to go to Egypt, and declare thy will to this people; thou who disturbest the happy estate of the Egyptians, and gavest us the opportunity of flying away from out under them, and madest the dominion of Pharaoh inferior to my dominion; thou who didst make the sea dry land for us, when we knew not whither to go, and didst overwhelm the Egyptians with those destructive waves which had been divided for us; thou who didst bestow upon us the security of weapons when we were naked; thou who didst make the fountains that were corrupted to flow, so as to be fit for drinking, and didst furnish us with water that came out of the rocks, when we were in want of it; thou who didst preserve our lives with [quails, which was] food from the sea, when the fruits of the ground failed us; thou didst send us such food from heaven as had never been seen before; thou who didst suggest to us the knowledge of thy laws, and appoint to us a form of government,—come thou, I say, O Lord of the whole world, and that as such a Judge and a Witness to me as cannot be bribed, and show how I never admitted of any gift against justice from any of the Hebrews; and have never condemned a man that ought to have been acquitted, on account of one that was rich; and have never attempted to hurt this commonwealth.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He first opened up the well within.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

2. The Flambeau Ojibwe use the dried leaves as an inhalant and fumigator, “nokweˈsîkûn”.
— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

We shall here interrupt the thread of our narrative for a brief space, in order to make a few observations upon the condition of the private soldier.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Killed!” half-cried, half-groaned the superintendent, staggering a bit as the crowd flew on up the alley 322 and vanished around the corner of the street into which it merged.
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

The weakness of the play is the author's failure or unwillingness to define his own state of mind concerning property rights and property distribution, or to define the relationship that should exist between product and producer, capital and labor.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

Lead him far out upon the trail, and there leave him.
— from The Flamingo Feather by Kirk Munroe

Wanderlust and a certain feeling of unrest that went even deeper than the old habits kept James Brood away from his home many months out of the year.
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon

"Mr. Hall commonly retired to rest a little before eleven o'clock; but after his first sleep, which lasted about two hours, he quitted his bed to obtain an easier position on the floor or upon three chairs, and would then employ himself in reading the book on which he had been engaged during the day.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

Thereupon General Wilson announced his decision to remain at Macon and conduct his future operations upon the principle that every man killed thereafter was a man murdered.
— from Was General Thomas Slow at Nashville? With a Description of the Greatest Cavalry Movement of the War and General James H. Wilson's Cavalry Operations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton