Marco Galetti invests Marco Polo S. of Nicolo with the ownership of his possessions (beni) in S. Giovanni Grisostomo; 10 September, 1319; drawn up by the Notary Nicolo, priest of S. Canciano. "
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I never should have been got into my present state if I hadn’t come here.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I had gained in my profession sufficient experience of young men to know what the outward signs and tokens were of their beginning to go wrong, and when I resumed my walk to the railway I am sorry to say I felt more than doubtful about Mr. Hartright's future.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

They were within fifteen miles of Monte Cristo when the sun began to set behind Corsica, whose mountains appeared against the sky, showing their rugged peaks in bold relief; this mass of rock, like the giant Adamastor, rose dead ahead, a formidable barrier, and intercepting the light that gilded its massive peaks so that the voyagers were in shadow.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But," continued Cheirisophus, "since your choice has fallen upon me, I will make it my endeavour to do you all the good in my power; so make your preparations to weigh anchor to-morrow; wind and weather permitting, we will voyage to Heraclea; every one must endeavour, therefore, to put in at that port; and for the rest we will consult, when we are come thither.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

I pray God it may prove so.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He says the House was well satisfied with my Report yesterday; and so several others told me in the Hall that my Report was very good and satisfactory, and that I have got advantage by it in the House: I pray God it may prove so!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It will not grow in marshy places such as rice prefers, but needs light, well-drained soils.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

As far as wealth goes I might perhaps satisfy your people, but for the rest I am but a prosaic fellow, with neither noble blood, nor the brain of a genius, nor anything out of the common.”
— from The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall

"Well," she exclaimed, "I guess if my papa should try that on me, I'd make such a fuss he'd have to let me eat just whatever I wanted."
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

I was very thankful to see him go, and when he was out of sight put as much of my cash as would not go into my pocket safely up my sleeve, and made my pillow of a stone projection of the wall.
— from A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor

"Do you want to get into my pocket, sir?" he says, angrily.
— from Hunting Sketches by Anthony Trollope

As the subject, notwithstanding its great importance, might, per se , be felt dry and {vi} insipid by the general reader, accustomed to the luxuries of modern literature, the author has not scrupled to mix with it such collateral matter as he thought might serve to correct the aridity.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew