By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord’s lodging and so to my Lord.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

However, the mazurka lacks Nought of its charms original
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

I did object to my Lord [Crew] that it would be no place of content, nor safety, nor honour for my Lord, the State being so indigent as it is, and the [King] so irregular, and those about him, that my Lord must be forced to part with anything to answer his warrants; and that, therefore, I do believe the King had rather have a man that may be one of his vicious caball, than a sober man that will mind the publick, that so they may sit at cards and dispose of the revenue of the kingdom.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I explained to him that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation of amnesty, of December 8, 1863, still in force; enabled every Confederate soldier and officer, below the rank of colonel, to obtain an absolute pardon, by simply laying down his arms, and taking the common oath of allegiance, and that General Grant, in accepting the surrender of General Lee's army, had extended the same principle to all the officers, General Lee included; such a pardon, I understood, would restore to them all their rights of citizenship.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

No Christmas-tree went by leaving a whiff of piny sweetness behind, that she did not wish it all success, and picture to herself the merry little people dancing in its light.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

There are Black Folks in abundance here, but they don't act as if they were even under the pressure of hard times, much less the cruelties that we hear of slaves having to bear.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He therefore made light of her engagement, saying, with a smile of self-approbation, “Mayhap she will change her mind; what signifies his being a lord?
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

* Note: Symmachus, in a fragment of an oration published by M. Mai, describes Valentinian as born among the snows of Illyria, and habituated to military labor amid the heat and dust of Libya: genitus in frigoribus, educatus is solibus Sym.
— 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

M. de Bragadin, who had the weakness to believe in the occult sciences, told me one day that, for a young man of my age, he thought my learning too extensive, and that he was certain I was the possessor of some supernatural endowment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Long before morning, had Von Bloom been awake he would have heard the maniac laugh closer to the camp, and might have seen the green eyes of the hyena glancing under the expiring blaze of Swartboy's camp-fire.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

I own I had some hopes that my letter would have touched his heart: I am sorry to find they were so ill-founded.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

"Have the goodness to tell him that M. le Chevalier d'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers, is waiting to see him."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

"Consider the labor of preparation, the rushing about of the servants, the hours that my lady spent before her mirror with patch and powder-puff, the effort my fine gentleman expended upon his ruffles and falling bands.
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

By the terms of my will, now in the hands of my attorneys at Washington, you are at this moment, sole heir to my large fortune.
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson

I drove home to my lodgings."
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

He was supposed to be writing a new book, but in reality he indulged himself with a holiday, to make love to the girl he had so strangely rescued.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

The fires blazed higher, the maddening liquor flowed like water, the yells grew fiercer, and the dancing more furious.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

I believe firmly that this cruel deed will be the concluding crime of the many which that Englishwoman has committed, and that our Lord will be pleased that she shall at last receive the chastisement which she has these many long years deserved, and which has been reserved till now, for her greater ruin and confusion."—[Parma
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1587b by John Lothrop Motley

There was clearly no moment of general havoc; the Mussulman lived on in the house of his Christian father.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman