Thence set him down in Covent Guarden and so home by the ‘Change, which is full of people still, and all talk highly of the failure of the Prince in not making more haste after his instructions did come, and of our managements here in not giving it sooner and with more care and oftener.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He is no good, I say, if he does not have the strength within himself.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

Thence set him down in Covent Guarden and so home by the 'Change, which is full of people still, and all talk highly of the failure of the Prince in not making more haste after his instructions did come, and of our managements here in not giving it sooner and with more care and oftener.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 by Samuel Pepys

Home by the 'Change, which is full of people still, and all talk highly of the failure of the Prince in not making more haste after his instructions did come, and of our managements here in not giving it sooner and with more care and oftener.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

To judge the state of a ham , plunge a knife into it to the bone; on drawing it back, if particles of meat adhere to it, or if the smell is disagreeable, the curing has not been effectual, and the ham is not good; it should, in such a state, be immediately cooked.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

The executioner was provided with new gloves in order that he might come from the discharge of his duty, metaphorically at least, with clean hands, thus indicating that, as a minister of justice, he incurred no guilt in shedding blood.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Besides Grugyn and Twrch Ỻawin, there was a third [ 523 ] brother to whom the story gives a special name, to wit, Ỻwydawc Gouynnyat, and this was, I take it, meant also to account for a place-name, which, however, is not given: it should have been somewhere in Ystrad Yw, in the county of Brecknock.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

There could be no harm, if no good, in Stephenson trying his hand at it.
— from Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton (James Hamilton) Fyfe