Now what an opportunity had I to have concealed this and seemed to have made an insurance and got L100 with the least trouble and danger in the whole world.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Here was also the shrine which the Danish king Eirik Eimune had sent to King Sigurd; and the altar book, written with gold letters, which the patriarch had presented to King Sigurd.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But Maggie, who had little more power of concealing the impressions made upon her than if she had been constructed of musical strings, felt her eyes getting larger with tears as they took each other's hands in silence.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Having arrived at Beloit, they managed here to secure a map and from it got some idea of where government land was to be had.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow, I with these did play!" Scarcely less sure, or if a less valuable, not less indispensable mark Gonimon men poiaetou——— ———hostis rhaema gennaion lakoi, will the imagery supply, when, with more than the power of the painter, the poet gives us the liveliest image of succession with the feeling of simultaneousness:— With this, he breaketh from the sweet embrace Of those fair arms, which bound him to her breast, And homeward through the dark laund runs apace;— * * * * *
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

CHAPTER THE NINETY-FIRST. (There) I catch sight of Giton laden with towels and scrapers, leaning, downhearted and embarrassed, against the wall.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

our good Lord willeth that this be known of His lovers in earth; and the more that we know [it] the more should we beseech, if it be wisely taken; and so is our Lord's meaning.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

“Indeed,” says Moore the poet, in a humorous little book, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress , 1819, “the Gipsey language, with the exception of such terms as relate to their own peculiar customs, differs but little from the regular Flash or Cant language.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Numbers of people were going abroad as usual at the end of the season, and Becky had plenty of opportunities of finding out by the behaviour of her acquaintances of the great London world the opinion of "society" as regarded her conduct.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

High Bridge was a vital point, for over it the trains were to pass, and I was under the impression that General Lee was there, passing with the rest of his army, but hearing our troops engaged at Rice’s Station, he had ridden to us and was waiting near Mahone’s division.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

New York commenced [286] in this way in 1817 the magnificent enterprise of the Erie Canal, to connect the great Lakes with the city of New York by an inland water-way for commerce, and the completion of this in 1825 made the State the "Empire State," and the city the undisputed commercial metropolis of the Union.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

The long-pointed shoes began to increase all through the 13th century, and in the 14th century they reached their greatest length, when the points were often tied up to a garter just below the knee.
— from Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes

‘Nor can the tender willows and the grass fresh with dew, and the rivers gliding level with their banks, delight her heart, and banish her sorrow.’
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

It was to be that of the very great lady, with the blood of the earth's great rulers in her veins.
— from Where Love Is by William John Locke

He did not look very ferocious, though his manner had a bluntness not usual in the Southern men she had met––a soldier above and beyond everything else, intelligent, but not broad, good looking with the good looks of dark, curly hair, a high color, heavy mustache, which he had a weakness for caressing as he talked, and full, bold eyes roaming about promiscuously and taking entire advantage of the freedom granted him at the Terrace, where he had been received as neighbor since boyhood.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

He took a fancy to me, and we used to go long walks together.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

His was rather a sympathetic and intelligent attempt to interpret for the contemplative mind the great lessons which these impressive elevations are capable of imparting to men….
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.

McKean, Governor, letters written to, 349 , 368 .
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

“I can’t help what the governor likes,” was the reply.
— from Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family Tree by George Manville Fenn