This I was glad of, finding reason to doubt that I might in this (since my Lord Sandwich made me understand what he had said to the Duke of York herein) fear to offend either the Duke of York by denying it, for he seemed on Sunday night last, when I first made known my desire to him herein to be a little amused at it, though I knew not then the reason, or else offend my Lord Sandwich by accepting it, or denying it in a manner that might not forward his desire for Sir Charles Harbord, but I thank God I did it to my great content without any offence, I think, to either.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Crooke’s plan for the renovation of the Tod’s original text, including a discussion of the transliteration of word other than English, is given in detail in the Preface .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

After my broken and imperfect prayer was over, I drank the rum in which I had steeped the tobacco, which was so strong and rank of the tobacco that I could scarcely get it down; immediately upon this I went to bed.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Yes, I get into debt, I drink, I am living with another man’s wife, I’m hysterical, I’m ordinary.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Men who lived by plunder, profligacy, and riot; squandering their gold in doing ill, and propagating vice and evil.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Working part-time the two of them might get it done in three months.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

(ðu); g. incer; d. inc; a. inc(it) you two .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

870, you’ll give in driblets, if you are wise .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The ranked Regiments hear it in their meadow; they rush back again through the nearest Gates; Bouille gallops in, distracted, inaudible;—and now has begun, in Nanci, as in that doomed Hall of the Nibelungen, 'a murder grim and great.' Miserable: such scene of dismal aimless madness as the anger of Heaven but rarely permits among men!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Besides, there is no good in denying it—the wind never blows without cause, and there has been more than one report that the Tartars have actually invaded us."
— from 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar; Or, The Scourge of God by Jósika, Miklós, báró

Santo Stefano di Calcinaia is an interesting variety of this; the beautiful maiden who feeds the geese is disguised in an old woman's skin; the geese, who see her naked, cry out: "Cocò, la bella padrona ch 'i' ho," until the prince, by means of a noiseless file, makes the cook enter the room and carry the old woman's skin away while she sleeps, and then weds her.—The following unpublished story, communicated to me by Signor Greco from Cosenza in Calabria, is a variation of that of the Pentamerone :— Seven princes have a very beautiful sister.
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

I was glad of the opportunity to put in the mite of my claims upon Lincoln and give it to Davis, and have been glad I did it every day since.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 2 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

Its hoofs are meagre, and crooked, like those of goats; and, like the goats, it delights in clambering up rocks, and impending over the most rugged precipices.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

Harry's idea of color in pictures is wonderfully good; in dress it would be for me almost ridiculous.
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

There, do not cry, my girl, I do ill to speak harsh to you.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

This was all new and important; it had welled up suddenly and without warning into his conscious mind, and he must get it down in notes before the "memory"—even mentally, he always put that word into quotes—was lost.
— from The Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper

There's no earthly reason why you shouldn't stay; but if, with your usual obstinacy and strong-mindedness, you insist upon going—" "I do insist upon going, and without an escort.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

In intellectual productions the refining process should not be carried too far: beyond a certain point, what is gained in delicacy is lost in manliness and power.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

For weak eyes, the fresh juice of a green gall is dropped into the eye.
— from California Athabascan Groups by Martin A. Baumhoff