It was soon rebuilt, and continued to flourish under the old name and sign, until a dying landlord, struck with remorse for double scores, bad measures, and other iniquities which are incident to the sinful race of publicans, endeavored to make his peace with Heaven by bequeathing the tavern to St. Michael’s Church, Crooked Lane, toward the supporting of a chaplain.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

This is very common; we are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak; and it is enough for us that our names are often mentioned, be it after what manner it will.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This active principle may perhaps be said to constitute the most essential barrier between us and our neighbours the brutes; for if there be some in the human shape who are not under any such dominion, I choose rather to consider them as deserters from us to our neighbours; among whom they will have the fate of deserters, and not be placed in the first rank.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The nobles then prudently resolved to establish an interregnum—a new political form, unknown to other nations.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The locomotive was fairly upon the obstruction now.
— from Ralph on the Overland Express; Or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman

It is all that remains of a layer of some thickness which must have been deposited when the surface was filled up to or nearly to the top of the rock.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

Near noon it cleared up with a blaze of light, as it were; the sole difference at first being, that what looked like melting lead before, now turned into so many huge bright sheets of tin, every bend of it as good as flashing up thousands of needles in your eyes.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

Thus we see that the Church was pressing hard and fast upon the old New England Puritans.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Bálnokházy too was jesting when she said to her daughter: 'My dear Melanie, we have fallen up to our necks in the mire, we cannot be very particular about the hand that is to drag us out.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

You shall fit up the old nursery as your academy of the useful arts, if you choose to call it by so dignified a name.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

Near noon it cleared up with a blaze of light, as it were; the sole difference at first being, that what looked like melting lead before now turned into so many huge bright sheets of tin, every sudden bend of it as good as flashing up thousands of needles in your eyes.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

Did infinite goodness create the countless worthless living things that breed within and feed upon the flesh of higher forms? Did infinite wisdom intentionally produce the microscopic beasts that feed upon the optic nerve?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

I thought you all fully understood that on no consideration was my father to have liquor, unless by the physician's or my order—it aggravates his disease and neutralizes all the doctor's efforts—and, unless you wish to be immediately discharged, never repeat the same offence.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb