Among them the Pretorian Galleass floating upon the seas, her rudder being broken, in great danger and fear drew towards Calais, and striking in the sand, was taken by Amias Preston, Thomas Gerard, and Harvey; Hugh Moncada the governor was slain, the soldiers and mariners were either killed or drowned; in her there was found great store of gold, which fell to be the prey of the English.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

[103] Page 468 Every age has its own manners, and its politics dependent upon them; and the same attempts will not be made against a constitution fully formed and matured, that were used to destroy it in the cradle, or to resist its growth during its infancy.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

This day I had a letter from my father that he is got down well, and found my mother pretty well again.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There was once a powerful and rich bonde called Olaf of Dal, who dwelt in Great Dal in Aumord, and had two children,—a son called Hakon Fauk, and a daughter called Borghild, who was a very beautiful girl, and prudent, and well skilled in many things.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

However, I got dressed, darkly wiping my sanguinary face at intervals, and I said, “Can I help you?”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

So home, and I put in at Sir W. Batten’s, where Major Holmes was, and in our discourse and drinking I did give Sir J. Mennes’ health, which he swore he would not pledge, and called him knave and coward (upon the business of Holmes with the Swedish ship lately), which we all and I particularly did desire him to forbear, he being of our fraternity, which he took in great dudgeon, and I was vexed to hear him persist in calling him so, though I believe it to be true, but however he is to blame and I am troubled at it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I have, in truth, observed, and shall never have a better opportunity than at present to communicate my observation, that the world are in general divided into two opinions concerning charity, which are the very reverse of each other.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In his stone coffin forth he rides, A ponderous barque for river tides, Yet light as gossamer it glides, Downward to Tilmouth cell.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Now Claudius, as I said before, went out of that way along which Caius was gone; and as the family was in a mighty disorder upon the sad accident of the murder of Caius, he was in great distress how to save himself, and was found to have hidden himself in a certain narrow place, though he had no other occasion for suspicion of any dangers, besides the dignity of his birth; for while he was a private man, he behaved himself with moderation, and was contented with his present fortune, applying himself to learning, and especially to that of the Greeks, and keeping himself entirely clear from every thing that might bring on any disturbance.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But what was worse than all, seein' he was a fine feller in the main, and I guess didn't mean to fail, he took sick, and in about a month died."
— from Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes

Being sheltered by the high bulwark hard beside the quarter-deck ladder, I leaned awhile to stare about me and drink in great draughts of sweet, clean air, so that in a little my head grew easier and the heaviness passed from me.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

It must have been our bad day, for Georgia felt her very first bite from the strap that afternoon, and on the way home volunteered not to tell on me, if grandma did not ask.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down, And leave the changeable noise of this great town; I will the country see, Where old simplicity, Though hid in grey, Doth look more gay Than foppery in plush and scarlet clad."
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

With your vivid imagination and deep sensibility, your love of reverie and abstraction, there is great danger of your yielding unconsciously to habits the more fatal in their influence, because apparently as innocent as they are insidious and pernicious.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

[Pg 476] It is obvious from the context that he means saturated furnace bottoms—the herdpley of the old German metallurgists—and, in fact, he himself gives this equivalent in the Interpretatio , and describes it in great detail in De Natura Fossilium (p. 353).
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Ibidem Galfridus de Glynton i. magnam virgatam de feudo Glovernie pertinens ad Barton.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

It is as large as a church; its pavement is rich enough for the pavement of a King’s palace; its great dome is gorgeous with frescoes; its walls are made of--what?
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain