Sometimes a cock that has had ten to one against him will by chance give an unlucky blow, will strike the other starke dead in a moment, that he never stirs more; but the common rule is, that though a cock neither runs nor dies, yet if any man will bet L10 to a crowne, and nobody take the bet, the game is given over, and not sooner.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

'George is getting on very well,' said Miss Lavinia which might not have been supposed at the moment—'and I dare say we shall be married, one of these days.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

One god is god of both, as poets feign; One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

After the Battle LV In Which the Same Subject is Pursued LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman LVII Eothen LVIII Our Friend the Major LIX The Old Piano LX Returns to the Genteel World LXI In Which Two Lights are Put Out LXII Am Rhein LXIII In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance LXIV A Vagabond Chapter LXV Full of Business and Pleasure LXVI Amantium Irae LXVII Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths CHAPTER I Chiswick Mall While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This must he feel, the true-born son of Greece, If Greece one true-born patriot can boast: Not such as prate of war but skulk in peace, The bondsman's peace, who sighs for all he lost, Yet with smooth smile his tyrant can accost, And wield the slavish sickle, not the sword: Ah, Greece!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In the course of disposing of the quack last mentioned, Governor Ide gets on rather a high horse, asking, with much dignified indignation, “How many people in the United States would have known or cared whether the army was or was not ordered out in Samar in 1904?”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Kant, therefore, by taking such laws for granted, is guilty of a petitio principii , which is all the bolder, in that he at once adds (page vi of the preface) that a moral law ought to imply " absolute necessity ."
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

[2848] predestinated to this man's cure, this malady; and time of cure, the scheme of each geniture inspected, gathering of herbs, of administering astrologically observed; in which Thurnesserus and some iatromathematical professors, are too superstitious in my judgment.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“But them you’ve got is good ones,” said Price quickly.
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts

There is only one thing that persuades you to forgive the paltry plea of the poet that time is brief—and that is the charming reflex glimpse it gives of her to whom the rose and the verse were sent, and who had not thought that time was brief.
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

Peter, by no means, teaches us that we grow into grace, or that we grow into entire sanctification.
— from The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark

On emerging from the tunnel gateway the stranger is confronted by the great imposing gable of the Parliament House.
— from Stirling Castle, its place in Scottish history by Eric Stair-Kerr

For the black-veined variety the white lead ground is gone over here and there, but not too much of it, with a touch of black which must be vigorously worked into the white to produce a few blotches of light, faint gray not prominent at all.
— from Graining and Marbling A Series of Practical Treatises on Material, Tools and Appliances Used; General Operations; Preparing Oil Graining Colors; Mixing; Rubbing; Applying Distemper Colors; Wiping Out; Penciling; The Use of Crayons; Review of Woods; The Graining of Oak, Ash, Cherry, Satinwood, Mahogany, Maple, Bird's Eye Maple, Sycamore, Walnut, Etc.; Marbling in All Shades. by F. (Frederick) Maire

In grief I gaze on thy harvest, Anxious to me my thought as thy riches unroll.
— from The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold: A Play for a Greek Theatre by John Jay Chapman

The genitive is given only when not perfectly regular.
— from Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith

Many a man darkens his spirit, enfeebles his best part, blinds himself to the things beyond, by reason of his taking the liberty, as he says, which Christianity, broadly and generously interpreted, gives, of participating in all outward delights.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

On the first approach to double, treble, quadruple, and even quintuple locks, one feels somewhat like going over a precipice, but this soon wears off, and in reality, the ground is got over quicker than with single locks.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans