But I was out of my wits almost, and the more from that, upon my lifting up the earth with the spudd, I did discern that I had scattered the pieces of gold round about the ground among the grass and loose earth; and taking up the iron head-pieces wherein they were put, I perceive the earth was got among the gold, and wet, so that the bags were all rotten, and all the notes, that I could not tell what in the world to say to it, not knowing how to judge what was wanting, or what had been lost by Gibson in his coming down: which, all put together, did make me mad; and at last was forced to take up the head-pieces, dirt and all, and as many of the scattered pieces as I could with the dirt discern by the candlelight, and carry them up into my brother’s chamber, and there locke them up till I had eat a little supper: and then, all people going to bed, W. Hewer and I did all alone, with several pails of water and basins, at last wash the dirt off of the pieces, and parted the pieces and the dirt, and then begun to tell [them]; and by a note which I had of the value of the whole in my pocket, do find that there was short above a hundred pieces, which did make me mad; and considering that the neighbour’s house was so near that we could not suppose we could speak one to another in the garden at the place where the gold lay—especially my father being deaf—but they must know what we had been doing on, I feared that they might in the night come and gather some pieces and prevent us the next morning; so W. Hewer and I out again about midnight, for it was now grown so late, and there by candlelight did make shift to gather forty-five pieces more.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thou hast ended a long suit In a minute. BOSOLA.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Whether or not his disburthening his conscience afforded him any ease I knew not, but he slipped into bed again, and lay very quiet until the robber and his mistress were asleep, and snored in concert; then, rising softly, he untied a rope that was round his pack, which making fast to one end of it, he opened the window with as little noise as possible, and lowered his goods into the yard with great dexterity: then he moved gently to our bedside and bade us farewell, telling us that, as we ran no risk we might take our rest with great confidence, and in the morning assure the landlord that we knew nothing of his escape, and, lastly, shaking us by the hands, and wishing us all manner of success, he let himself drop from the window without any danger, for the ground was not above a yard from his feet as he hung on the outside.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

One riding by on the Old Germantown road, and seeing a young girl swinging in the hammock on the piazza and, intent upon some volume of old poetry or the latest novel, would no doubt have envied a life so idyllic.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

When Laura at length raised her eyes a little, she saw Philip and Harry within the bar, but she gave no token of recognition.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

He turned over several times in his attempts to get into a more comfortable position more sheltered from the wind, he wrapped up his legs closer, shut his eyes, and lay still.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Bright flashed her eye as Lakshmaṇ spoke
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And what he means by a common acknowledgment of right he explains at large, showing that a republic cannot be administered without justice.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Before me a hundred and fifty faces, all unlike one another; three hundred eyes all looking straight into my face.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But the dates of his entering and leaving school are alike unknown; and his subsequent sojourn at Leyden for two years—though there is no reason to doubt it—depends even less upon any positive documentary evidence.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Ah, carissimo ," said a soft and tender voice in his ear, a low, sweet voice, " se veramenta me ami, saro lo tua carissima sposa—— " At that moment the door opened and Buttons walked in.
— from Humour of the North by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

Is there not some one, or may there not be more far-sighted men, to whom the Lord has entrusted a liberal share of His gold and silver, whom these examples and this opportunity may stimulate?
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878 by Various

Though we may say of the buffaloe that it is of this kind, yet we cannot call it a tame animal here; so far from that, it is the most ferocious in the country where he resides; this, however, is not in the high temperate part of Abyssinia, but in the sultry Kolla, or valleys below, where, without hiding himself, as wild beasts generally do, as if conscious, of superiority of strength, he lyes at his ease among large spreading shady trees near the clearest and deepest rivers, or the largest stagnant pools of the purest water.
— from Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5. by James Bruce

"How?" I exclaimed breathlessly, surprised at his extraordinary change of manner and his evident apprehension lest something should befall me.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

Traps were set for more than one of us, and if we had walked into these traps our public careers would have ended, at least so far as following them under the conditions which alone make it worth while to be in public life at all.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

He had expended a large sum of money in buildings and machinery; and though his countrymen said he would ruin himself, every year he planted more trees.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

When the Prince was gone the Maestro gathered up some music and turned to his pupil, who was drying her eyes and looking somewhat curiously at the boy through her tears.
— from The Little Schoolmaster Mark: A Spiritual Romance by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Shorthouse

I was beginning to fear that I had given offence to them, when His Excellency at last said a few words which seemed to be decisive.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard