“Petrusha, you’ve thought a great deal about what has happened,” she said, taking hold of her brother’s sleeve, and he knew how hard it was for her to speak.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He died in 1905; and the business was incorporated with his son, George D., as president, and another son, Frederick, as secretary and treasurer.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In short, by the time Kashtanka found herself on the unfamiliar pavement, it was getting dusk, and the carpenter was as drunk as a cobbler.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The same statutes of apprenticeship and other corporation laws, indeed, which, when a manufacture is in prosperity, enable the workman to raise his wages a good deal above their natural rate, sometimes oblige him, when it decays, to let them down a good deal below it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, with W. Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir G. Downing, and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the late war was managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling how, when he was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might have power, and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word, perhaps of a woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So home, and I put in at Sir W. Batten’s, where Major Holmes was, and in our discourse and drinking I did give Sir J. Mennes’ health, which he swore he would not pledge, and called him knave and coward (upon the business of Holmes with the Swedish ship lately), which we all and I particularly did desire him to forbear, he being of our fraternity, which he took in great dudgeon, and I was vexed to hear him persist in calling him so, though I believe it to be true, but however he is to blame and I am troubled at it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Often as the pen flies quickly across the page, or as the lips are moving in the delivery of a sermon, or as an altar service is in progress, the slight, thin figure of that man flashes to the brain, and the eye grows dim and the heart-prayer rises, "Lord, make me an humble man."
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

But the ancient fathers, fearing that near relationship might gradually in the course of generations diverge, and become distant relationship, or cease to be relationship at all, religiously endeavoured to limit it by the bond of marriage before it became distant, and thus, as it were, to call it back when it was escaping them.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Therefore, my son, if you will believe my counsel, and follow it, then you shall see good days, and all will fall out to your heart's content."
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba

“I had to think a good deal about it, Frau Frohmann; and I suppose we shall have to make our stay shorter.
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Will you go down and bring them up?
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

"Go down and meet him, Lucrezia."
— from The Call of the Blood by Robert Hichens

She and a party of ladies and gentlemen dined at the hotel, and I was a waiter.
— from Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read

The butte-top, late a gossamer balloon In mid-air tethered hovering, grew down And rooted in a blear expanse of brown, That, lifting slowly with the ebb of night, Took on the harsh solidity of light— And day was on the prairie like a flame.
— from The Song of Hugh Glass by John G. Neihardt

You often see pictures of it in children’s books; there are such pretty stories about the good dogs and the kind monks who live there.”
— from Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children by Mrs. Molesworth

—Take four ounces of fine sugar, the thin rind of a large lemon, and a pint of cold water, when the sugar is dissolved, add one pound turkey figs, and place the stew-pan over a moderate fire where they may heat and swell slowly, and stew gently for two hours, when they are quite tender, add the juice of one lemon, arrange them in a glass dish and serve cold.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

Why should I rely on him alone?--It occurs to me that at this hour ( looks at his watch ) at this very hour, the pious girl daily attends mass at the church of the Dominicans.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is a new doctor—a very famous doctor from New York, who—who knows a great deal about—about hurts like yours.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter