And then, if other pens should try This moral scheme as well as I, They may have something to pursue:—
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Some say that though she appear honest to me, yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that there is shrewd construction made of her.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The early sun was striking edgewise on its gables and lattice-windows, touching them with gold; and some beams of its old peace seemed to touch my heart.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

First shear with them or write with them in sapphires, in crystal or in other precious stones.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

She knew that Wyvis Brand would be there; and she had a fancy for seeing him amongst other men, and observing how he bore himself in other people's society.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

By and by down by water on several Deall ships, and stood upon a stage in one place seeing calkers sheathing of a ship.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Towards the end of the second century, the churches of Greece and Asia adopted the useful institutions of provincial synods, 1141 and they may justly be supposed to have borrowed the model of a representative council from the celebrated examples of their own country, the Amphictyons, the Achaean league, or the assemblies of the Ionian cities.
— 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

He usually attends me, unless I work too long in one place; sitting down on the turf, displaying the ermine of his breast, and watching my movements with great intelligence.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

The perfection of culture, and the fully developed instinct of property, showed a degree of civilization superior to that of Tahiti.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

"But please don't ask me to do something ridiculous, as when [35] we dumped that feather bed down from the third-story landing, and caught those visitors, instead of Pop Swingly."
— from Dave Porter in the South Seas; or, The Strange Cruise of the Stormy Petrel by Edward Stratemeyer

Instead of pushing straight before him with his whole force, as St. Cyr had ordered, he threw out five battalions of Mazzuchelli’s brigade to his left
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

The Jacobin Club, however, as Arthur Young knew and described it, not only dictated the proceedings of the National Assembly, using this body as a sort of tool or cat’s-paw by which it practically governed France, but exerted such an influence on Parisian society that enthusiasm for Liberal ideas took possession even of the fair sex.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Why, I can't see anything strange in our parents sitting on the porch," replied his brother, in a tone of feigned indifference.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

It was sultry, though there were few clouds, and everything that grew looked suddenly languid; each flower and shrub gave out its own peculiar scent abundantly, the smell of last year's rotting leaves and twigs all at once returned and mingled with the odours of green things and of the earth itself, and the heavy air was over-rich with it all, and hard to breathe.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford