It was chiefly here, I find, that the gentleman who travelled with Lord Byron, as physician, sought for society.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori

In the year of Christ 1256, the 40th of Henry III., John Mansell, the king’s councillor and priest, did invite to a stately dinner the kings and queens of England and Scotland, Edward the king’s son, earls, barons, and knights, the Bishop of London, and divers citizens, whereby his guests did grow to such a number, that his house at Totehill could not receive them, but that he was forced to set up tents and pavilions to receive his guests, whereof there was such a multitude that seven hundred messes of meat did not serve for the first dinner.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

`But natheles, bityde what bityde, 750 I shal to-morwe at night, by est or weste, Out of this ost stele on som maner syde, And go with Troilus wher-as him leste.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

He had, by order of his master, a flock-bed placed for him in a garret, where there was a number of rats and mice that often ran over the poor boy’s nose and disturbed him in his sleep.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

This order was in a great measure put into execution, (some few escaping) and many innocent persons were tortured to make them confess if they knew any thing of the matter; in particular, a person who resided in the same house with Gardiner, was treated with unparallelled barbarity to make him confess something which might throw a light upon the affair.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Her hair was falling over her shoulders; her gown was torn where Rawdon had wrenched the brilliants out of it.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I sought indeed to excuse them by the natural incompatibility betwixt the vulgar sort and men of a finer thread, both in judgment and knowledge, forasmuch as they go a quite contrary way to one another: but in this, the thing I most stumbled at was, that the finest gentlemen were those who most despised them; witness our famous poet Du Bellay— “Mais je hay par sur tout un scavoir pedantesque.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At all seasons of his history he must have felt, among such people, how, if he explained to them the deeper insight he had, they must either have shuddered aghast at it, or believing it, their own little compact hypothesis must have gone wholly to wreck.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

With this they betook themselves to a garden where they were to dine, and the duchess showed Sancho's letter to the duke, who was highly delighted with it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“My future must be assured if I can always get work this way,” thought Carrie.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“But, gee whiz, they were boiling about three hours ago,” Dumplin’ said.
— from Boy Scouts at Crater Lake A Story of Crater Lake National Park and the High Cascades by Walter Prichard Eaton

This gives us definitely to understand that this terrestrial globe was the work of Plancius.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

I wonder if we can't get wise to what it is."
— from Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Clarence Young

The excess gold was then wiped off and the leather cleaned with diluted vinegar and dressed with a good leather dressing.
— from The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft by Thomas K. Ford

The servants began to pass the plates round according to the rank of the guests; when they were in doubt about the latter point, they allowed themselves to be guided by instinct, and their guesses were nearly always correct.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

In Consideration whereof the sd John Bateman for himself his 3 heires execr and Admrs doth hereby covenant promis and grant to and with the sd Robert Taft his [234] Execr and assignes to pay for the transportation of the frame of the sd cellar and house from Brantery the place where it is to be framed to Boston and also to pay or cause to bee paid unto the sd Robert Taft his Execr Admrs or Assignes the full and just sum of thirty pounds Vizt one halfe part thereof in lawfull money of New England and the other halfe part thereof in English goods at money price and to pay the same in manner and forme following (that is to Say) five pounds in money and five pounds in goods at the time of Ensealing hereof and five pounds in money and five pounds in goods when the frame of the Cellar is laid down and the floare of the cellar is laid and five pounds in money and five pounds in goods when the whole worke is compleated and in every respect finished in matter and forme aforesd.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

During six hundred years the gospel was the way of truth and salvation; but the Christians insensibly forgot both the laws and example of their founder; and Mahomet was instructed by the Gnostics to accuse the church, as well as the synagogue, of corrupting the integrity of the sacred text.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

With regard, however, to the articles of the Witness in general, we think we can confidently appeal in their behalf to such of our readers as perused them, not as they were garbled, misquoted, interpolated, and mis-represented by unscrupulous enemies, but as they were first given to the public from the pen of the Editor.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

We entered the hall arm in arm, about nine o’clock in the evening, and were received by some three hundred gentlemen, with the wildest and loudest “rebel yell” I had ever heard.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

And he sent Magnus and Sinthues the guardsman, who took with them [321] about five hundred men, to the fortress of Tibur, one hundred and forty stades distant from Rome.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius