The ashes of the bonfires are also reputed to possess beneficial properties; hence in some places people rub their hair or their bodies with them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He heard her attentively, and then said: “Lydia will never be easy until she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Thence to Sir G. Carteret, and there talked a little while about office business, and thence by coach home, in several places paying my debts in order to my evening my accounts this month, and thence by and by to White Hall again to Sir G. Carteret to dinner, where very good company and discourse, and I think it my part to keep in there now more than ordinary because of the probability of my Lord’s coming soon home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it Cry ‘No recovery.’ AGAMEMNON.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He heard her attentively, and then said, "Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In the next place he should get her to meet him in some place privately, and should then tell her that the reason of his giving presents to her in secret was the fear that the parents of both of them might be displeased, and then he may add that the things which he had given her had been much desired by other people.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Beyond a doubt our thoughts then rose to Heaven in silent prayer, pleading as it were, for our happiness.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But I've heard it said, political power was safe in the hands of those who had to make a sacrifice in order to accept it.”
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

But dhe Inglish tung, (raddher teeth,) enjoying dhe dental aspirate , direct and depressive ( th and dh ), beyond perhaps anny oddher language, aincient or moddern; can no longuer be denied dhe appearance, hware it so peculiarly pozesses dhe reallity, ov dubbling az wel az depressing its power.
— from A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston

Within my breast a spirit lies, That tells me I shall steal some prize Not such a spright as moves the quaker To preach to sister Ruth, then take her Into some private place and shake her— Mine is a knowing honest spright, As true as Highland second-sight.
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775

The highest is seven pounds, paid by a farmer, whose son goes yearly on foot to Aberdeen for education, and in summer returns, and acts as a schoolmaster in Col. Dr. Johnson said, 'There is something noble in a young man's walking two hundred miles and back again, every year, for the sake of learning [815] .'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

A dreadful shiver ran through me if I had ventured to spend a couple of hours in some pleasure party.
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac

Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print; and he instanced some physical proportions, with their translation into a moral and political sense.
— from Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson