Gradually, I became used to seeing the gentleman with the black whiskers.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The principle which most Utilitarians have either tacitly or expressly adopted is that of pure equality—as given in Bentham’s formula, “everybody to count for one, and nobody for more than one.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody to spend any time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane met young Mrs. Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but found nobody within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year, so I took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town, thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go out with my wife this afternoon,... and so to a milliner at the corner shop going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give her eight pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner, and then with my wife to the King’s playhouse to see “The Storme,” which we did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared with “The Tempest,” at the Duke of York’s house, though Knepp did act her part of grief very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[1] Beans grown in Baiæ, also called bajanas or bacanas ; beans without skin or pods.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Goodness is beauty in its best estate.
— 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.

Beneath the whole political world, what most presses and perplexes to-day, sending vastest results affecting the future, is not the abstract question of democracy, but of social and economic organization, the treatment of working-people by employers, and all that goes along with it—not only the wages-payment part, but a certain spirit and principle, to vivify anew these relations; all the questions of progress, strength, tariffs, finance, &c., really evolving themselves more or less directly out of the Poverty Question, ("the Science of Wealth," and a dozen other names are given it, but I prefer the severe one just used.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Mr. Spectator , 'I am Young, and very much inclin'd to follow the Paths of Innocence: but at the same time, as I have a plentiful Fortune, and of Quality, I am unwilling to resign the Pleasures of Distinction, some little Satisfaction in being Admired in general, and much greater in being beloved by a Gentleman, whom I design to make my Husband.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“Perhaps it'll have stopped raining by then,” said Bobbie; “anyhow, I'm glad I brought Mother's waterproof and umbrella.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

H2 anchor CHAPTER V “I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,” said Mr. Knightley, “of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

He had to go immediately behind scenes on the stage, since the play he was to be in was to come first on the program.
— from Jerry's Charge Account by Hazel Hutchins Wilson

Hortensio “kisses the ground” in Bashful Lover , III., 3, 124.
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank

“We are poor farming people,” she said, “and are not likely to have gold about our windows; but glass is better to see through.”
— from Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers by W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre

"And she talks wildly of marrying a certain Frenchman, a Monsieur Gouache, I believe—is there such a man, my dear?"
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

It was one of those albums that the young ladies of her day loved to possess; indeed, so far, she had been the only girl in Bath House without one, and had read the flattering verses in several with some envy.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The father of Ferdinando, Don Garcia, had been slain on the isle of Gerbes, in battle with the Moors, when his son was but four years of age.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

We need hardly recall the fact, that the discussions in the Convention were greatly influenced by tumultuary movements out of doors.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Various

As if his voice were not enough to make him known, the cavalier removed the cloak from his visage, and exhibited the iron features of Don Francisco de Guzman, illuminated by the watchfire hard by.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. II. by Robert Montgomery Bird

John Huxford was still hesitating at the doorway, not knowing how to announce himself, or how far a shock might be dangerous to the sufferer, when a gentleman in black came bustling up.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle