I had seen enough of San Diego, and went on board and spent the day with some of the crew, whom I found quietly at work in the forecastle, mending and washing their clothes, and reading and writing.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Ang pútad níyang payag, His shack, elevated only slightly above the ground.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The followers of Babhravya on the other hand affirm that even though they be personally unacquainted, but have shown each other signs of affection there is an occasion for the employment of a go-between. Gonikaputra asserts that a go-between should be employed, provided they are acquainted with each other, even though no signs of affection may have passed between them.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

To the young man himself their little excursion was so much of an escapade—an adventure—that, even allowing for her habitual sense of freedom, he had some expectation of seeing her regard it in the same way.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

With those organic beings which never intercross (if such exist), the species, on my theory, must have descended from a succession of improved varieties, which will never have blended with other individuals or varieties, but will have supplanted each other; so that, at each successive stage of modification and improvement, all the individuals of each variety will have descended from a single parent.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her Sorry in some respect, glad in my expectations in another respec Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like Sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen’s maid Betty was gone away Sorry thing to be a poor King Spares not to blame another to defend himself Sparrowgrass Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily Spends his time here most, playing at bowles Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion Sporting in my fancy with the Queen Staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more Statute against selling of offices Staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband Still in discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morn Strange slavery that I stand in to beauty Strange thing how I am already courted by the people Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name Strange the folly of men to lay and lose so much money Strange how civil and tractable he was to me Street ordered to be continued, forty feet broad, from Paul’s Subject to be put into a disarray upon very small occasions Such open flattery is beastly Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet Supper and to bed without one word one to another Suspect the badness of the peace we shall make Swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her Talk very highly of liberty of conscience Talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her to Hawly Taught my wife some part of subtraction Tax the same man in three or four several capacities Tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping Tell me that I speak in my dreams That I might not seem to be afeared
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Yet how one could have set eyes on so singular a face and yet have forgotten the precise occasion, passed my imagination.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It chanced one day that, what while a doctor, young enough, but exceedingly deeply versed in science, sat by him and held him by the arm in that part where leaches use to seek the pulse, Jeannette, who, of regard for his mother, tended him solicitously, entered, on some occasion or another, the 105 chamber where the young man lay.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

‘Well, now that we have seen each other,’ said the Unicorn, ‘if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

"God bless her kind heart, sir," ejaculated old Seadrift.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899 by Various

It had something else of scarcely less import for Shakespeare, the love of poetry.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

A few of the thriftier and more important citizens, however, had separate estates of some magnitude, surrounding their residences, kept up with care and, if the time and place be taken into account, with considerable show of taste.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

The bearing surfaces are of extremely large size, over-size, considering general practice in the building of high speed engines of similar bore and stroke.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

This unrivalled mechanician, after having made great advances in the direction of high speed engines of sufficient lightness, proceeded to design a vastly improved dirigible balloon, when his endeavours were frustrated by blindness.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

I have seen enough of slaughter, Seen Scamander's torrent red, Seen hot blood poured out like water, Seen the champaign heaped with dead.
— from Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Adam Lindsay Gordon