] company at the theater and a small dance afterward in honor of her great-niece Miss Millicent Gilding on Tuesday the sixth of January at half past eight o'clock R.s.v.p.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

When I got out, through the sandhills, on to the beach, there she was, in her little straw bonnet, and her plain grey cloak that she always wore to hide her deformed shoulder as much as might be—there she was, all alone, looking out on the quicksand and the sea.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The government of these two sorts of Beets are far different; the red Beet being under Saturn and the [21] white under Jupiter; therefore take the virtues of them apart, each by itself.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

He gave occasion to the saying, Bibamus papaliter.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But this does not hold good of the Totum substantiale phaenomenon, which, as an empirical intuition in space, possesses the necessary property of containing no simple part, for the very reason that no part of space is simple.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And by reason of all these affections, the soul, when encased in a mortal body, now, as in the beginning, is at first without intelligence; but when the flood of growth and nutriment abates, and the courses of the soul, calming down, go their own way and become steadier as time goes on, then the several circles return to their natural form, and their revolutions are corrected, and they call the same and the other by their right names, and make the possessor of them to become a rational being.
— from Timaeus by Plato

There is more curiosity than courtesy to my countrymen used by others in the explanation as well of the names, as discription of this so well known herb; which that I may not also be guilty of, take this short discription: first, of the Red Archangel.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Tell us about it!” “You saw that Spanish mestizo go out through the sacristy in the midst of the sermon?” “Yes, we saw him.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

She would go out to the ship and ask if it was not so.
— from The Bondman: A New Saga by Caine, Hall, Sir

He jumped on deck without a word, and then, going over to the skylight, 'anded down the money to 'Arry.
— from Ship's Company, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

You promised me faithfully, since I had to go over to the seminary, and then to my teacher’s, that you wouldn’t iron until next week, when I could help.
— from Sisters by Grace May North

A gleam of the truth shot through his mind, and comforted him much, but alas, it was soon to be lost again.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

They found it sufficiently furnished, and in such good order, that they settled in it without trouble.
— from A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

The years rolled on, and day by day he climbed the top of the nearest hill and gazed off to the sea, hoping to discern a sail, but in vain.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

Then he goes on to men who are exposed to danger, and terror, and death in their lawful calling; and his instance is the seamen—those who go on to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

The goldsmith ended his work soon after the men had gone out to the stables to tend their horses for the night, and only he and I and my headman Thrand were left in the hall.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler