I did give him a piece, with good hopes, however, that his advice will be of use to me, though it is strange that Mr. Hollyard should never say one word of this ulcer in all his life to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Another night consultation with Herbert after Provis was gone home (I always took him home, and always looked well about me), led us to the conclusion that nothing should be said about going abroad until I came back from Miss Havisham's.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

One of the deceased parents (late his parishioners) had a poor widowed grandmother in that agreeable town, and she, Mrs Betty Higden, had carried off the orphan with maternal care, but could not afford to keep him.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Deep in him, below any reasoning process or act of consciousness, he had associated power with godhead.
— from White Fang by Jack London

In Connecticut, he must have a property which gives an income of $17.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

By and by he comes and so we set sayle, and anon went to dinner, my Lord and we very merry; and after dinner I went down below and there sang, and took leave of W. Howe, Captain Rolt, and the rest of my friends, then went up and took leave of my Lord, who give me his hand and parted with great respect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But rather we have here a problem which gradually works out its own solution and, as the periods in which a given advance takes place towards the realisation of the ideal of perpetual peace will, we hope, become with the passing of time shorter and shorter, we must approach ever nearer to this goal.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Out on the football field the annual preparation for the great struggles with Harvard and Princeton was going on.
— from Frank Armstrong at College by Matthew M. Colton

And was it likely that he and Pawle were going to find any really important evidence in an obscure Buckinghamshire market-town?
— from The Middle of Things by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

There was a general feeling that Toby Clark’s case was hopeless and Phoebe was greatly annoyed by reports that Tom Rathbun and Dave Hunter, with some others, had openly denounced Toby as a thief, saying it was all nonsense to claim he was innocent when he had been “caught with the goods.”
— from Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And the dark woods grew darker still; And birds were hushed; and peace was growing; And quietness crept up the hill;
— from Selected Poems by Rupert Brooke

The Slavic peasants both in Hungary and Poland were gradually losing their allotted land, and were socially and physically deteriorating, prior to the movement to America.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

His master finding him not available, on account of his absconding propensities, would gladly have offered him for sale.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

While Wolsey was absent at Calais, he accused Pace, without ground, of misrepresenting his letters to Henry, and of obtaining Henry's favour on behalf of a canon of York; [309] he complained that foreign powers were trusting to another influence than his over the King; and, when he returned, he took care that Pace should henceforth be employed, not as secretary to Henry, but on almost continuous missions to Italy.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

She had been at work on it for some time, first " trying to try for it ," and later "hammering" and polishing with great care.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards