He gone after dinner, D. Gawden and I to talke of the Victualling business of the Navy in what posture it is, which is very sad also for want of money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[ It is to be lamented, that Bayer has only given a Dissertation de Russorum prima Expeditione Constantinopolitana, (Comment.
— 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

Emily then related what had passed, expressed her concern for the mutual mistake that had occurred between Montoni and herself, and solicited her aunt's kind offices in urging him to give a decisive denial to the count's further addresses; but she soon perceived, that Madame Montoni had not been ignorant of the late conversation, when she introduced the present.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Helen and teacher will go in steam car to boston Helen and blind girls will have fun blind girls can talk on fingers Helen will see Mr anagnos Mr anagnos will love and kiss Helen Helen will go to school with blind girls Helen can read and count and spell and write like blind girls mildred will not go to boston Mildred does cry prince and jumbo will go to boston papa does shoot ducks with gun and ducks do fall in water and jumbo and mamie do swim in water and bring ducks out in mouth to papa Helen does play with dogs Helen does ride on horseback with teacher Helen does give handee grass in hand teacher does whip handee to go fast Helen is blind Helen will put letter in envelope for blind girls good-by HELEN KELLER A few weeks later her style is more nearly correct and freer in movement.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Wolff was the neighbour and firm friend of [523] George Anthony Denison, "dearer to him than any," although theologically in the opposite camp.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

A cavalry charge hurls itself against the fence; you are using no power, you are spending no money, for there is only one ground-connection till those horses come against the wire; the moment they touch it they form a connection with the negative brush through the ground , and drop dead.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The books on the table were unspotted and laid in rigid parallels; not one corner of the carpet-rug was curled; and nowhere was there a hockey-stick, a torn picture-book, an old cap, or a gregarious and disorganizing dog.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

But thou pulledst me out with a golden angle; derisively didst thou laugh when I called thee unfathomable.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“You had huckleberry pie for one thing,” 155 she observed, with a glance at Diogenes’ dress, “and jelly for another, and––” “Chicken, baked potatoes, milk, cake, and ice cream
— from Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

If any one is too delicately constituted to listen to a man like myself, and prefers a tale of gentleness and delicate desire, he had best pass over this narrative of part of my life, which has already received so much publicity.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

They look into the open grave, or watch the passing funeral perhaps with a momentary sadness, and turns lightly again to the active concerns of life, mingling in its gaities and dissipation, dancing on to the very whirlpool that is soon to engulf their frail bark, and bear it away where hope can never come.
— from Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

Your future is in your own hands; distinction must be won by gallant and daring deeds.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

M. Pitt, au contraire, apportant une même vigueur dans tous les départemens de la guerre, avoit destiné des forces considérables, à subjuguer dans toutes les parties de l'Amérique les François, qui abandonnés à
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

Instead of a man's Karma being individualized— i.e. , handed on in an integral state from individual to individual—we should regard it rather as having been generalized and disintegrated during life, leaving no residuum at death.
— from The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism: A Symphony by D. M. (Dawsonne Melanchthon) Strong

If in the course of conversation any allusion chanced to be made, either to life in the country, or to balls, dazzling wild-fire seemed to dance before our eyes and make us afraid to look at each other; I knew that his embarrassment was as great as my own; we both realized how far asunder we were thrust by that dividing gulf, and dreaded drawing nearer.
— from Katia by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

yes there are," laughed the man at the well, "lots of them too, but you can only see them in the dark, and it's good and dark down in that deep well.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope