Dr. Adams told me, that as an old friend he was admitted to visit him, and that he found him in a deplorable state, sighing, groaning, talking to himself, and restlessly walking from room to room.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've written fifty rhymes,' They make you dread that they 'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The dismal man readily complied; a circle was again formed round the table, and harmony once more prevailed.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves and holy-ales; And lords and ladies in their lives Have read it for restoratives: The purchase is to make men glorious, Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In the leafy months of June and July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious paper-leaves, named Proclamations, Resolutions, Journals, or Diurnals 'of the Union for Resistance to Oppression.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

They executed every measure slowly, indolently, negligently, and with stubbornness: neither shame nor fear restrained them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“Within this limit is relief enough, Sweet bottom grass and high delightful plain, 236 Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain: Then be my deer, since I am such a park, 239 No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark.”
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is easy to give the effective power and the full responsibility to one, providing him when necessary with advisers, each of whom is responsible only for the opinion he gives.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

This axis is always arranged in a spiral form, even in its greatest expansion, is of a fine rose tint, and flattened into the form of a ribbon; it is marked in all its length with asperitics or hollow dimples, in which the filamental appendages originate.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

The 3rd Weather Group at Air Defense Command Headquarters in Colorado Springs has done a lot of work on the effects of weather on radar, and they have developed mathematical formulas for telling how favorable weather conditions are for "anomalous propagation," the two-bit words for false radar targets caused by weather.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

"Do you fully realize the false position in which our church has been placed?" asked the parson, impressively.
— from The Morning Glory Club by George A. (George Alexander) Kyle

And Laddie had long since hit on a trick for reviving their interest.
— from Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

His nerveless fingers refused to hold the cup, and she put it to his lips while he drank.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey

We distinguisheth three sortes thereof—Simplex, Composita, Perfectissima—Beying Moderately taken, sayeth he, it sloweth age, it strengthen youth; it helpeth digestion; it cutteth fleume; it [35] abandoneth melancholie; it relisheth the taste; it lighteneth the mynd; it quickeneth the spirites; it cureth the hydropsie; it healeth the strangury; it pounceth the stone; it repelleth gravel; it puffeth away ventositie; it kepyth and preserveth the bed from whyrlyng, the eyes from dazelyng, the tongue from lispyng, the mouth from snafflyng, the teethe from chatteryng, the throte from ratlyng, the reason from stieflyng, the stomach from womblyng, the harte from swellyng, the bellie from wirtchyng, the guts from rumblyng, the hands from shiveryng, the sinoews from shrinkyng, the veynes from crumplyng, the bones from akyng, the marrow from soakyng—and trulie it is a sovereign liquor if it be orderlie taken.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

Ah! little Hal must wait till daylight for that, for his tiny fingers refused to tell him what it was.
— from Five Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

He bequeathed the request to his sons that they should assume these debts if his estate was insufficient, but the gratitude of some of the wealthy Federalists relieved them of this filial obligation.
— from Alexander Hamilton by Charles A. (Charles Arthur) Conant

This was, we learned, a favorite resort, to which they made occasional excursions from their island home.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

The latter was a deserter from the rebel army, and being very active and fleet, reached the shelter of the woods in advance of all the fugitives.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger