And looking upon his lodgings, which are now enlarging, he in passion cried, “Guarda mi spada; for, by God, I may chance to keep him in Ireland, when he is there:” for Sir W. Pen is going thither with my Lord Lieutenant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He is painfully conscious of his own deficiency, and painfully anxious, as you must have seen, to hide it from observation.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The will of the possessor being thus conceived as self-regarding, the intent with which he must hold is pretty clear: he must hold for his own benefit.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Sylphium-Plant occurs in the arms of General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth, K.C.M.G., which are: Vert, a chevron erminois, charged with a chevron gules, between three Saracens' heads habited in profile couped at the neck proper, and for augmentation a chief argent, thereon a mount vert inscribed with the Greek letters
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

LITTLE-FAITH AMONG THIEVES Besides, their king is at their whistle—he is never out of hearing; and if at any time they be put to the worst, he, if possible, comes in to help them; and of him it is said, "The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

As to the Sadder, Hyde (in Praef.) considered it not above 200 years old.
— 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

Indeed, in such passages it is with the Freedom of the wrong-chooser that he is primarily concerned: since it is the wrong-chooser that he especially wishes to prevent from shifting his responsibility on to causes beyond his control.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Each of the planets has its peculiar colour 245 ; Saturn is white,
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

During the absence of Marquis Boniface and his Imperial pupil, Constantinople was visited with a calamity which might be justly imputed to the zeal and indiscretion of the Flemish pilgrims.
— 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

By this, I think, the dial points at five; Anon, I'm sure, the Duke himself in person Comes this way to the melancholy vale, The place of death and sorry execution, Behind the ditches of the abbey here.
— from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Now I will not take your uncle Rameau for an instance; he is harsh, he is brutal, he has no humanity, he is a miser, he is a bad father, bad husband, bad uncle; but it has never been settled that he is particularly clever, that he has advanced his art, or that there will be any talk of his works ten years hence.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

I don’t see how I possibly can make it another year.
— from Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

For the last thirty years of her life, her inexhaustible pen continued to pour forth a variety of works of which space is here wanted to enumerate even their names.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

The lack of experience here is partially corrected by studying the work accomplished abroad; but a rapid review of such work can never replace the slower results of individual experience.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

But he is poor; can you clear him of that, I say?
— from The Duenna: A Comic Opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I suppose Her Highness is perfectly comfortable and happy in her incognito at Brighton—eh?
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

He is Perplexed Charlemagne raised his hands in thanks to God, but then bent his head and remained thinking deeply, for he was a man of prudent mind, cautious and far-seeing, and never spoke on impulse.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

He is perfectly calm.]
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy