So to the King’s house, and saw a piece of “Henry the Fourth;” at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knepp, but it was too late, and she to get her part against to-morrow, in “The Silent Woman,” and so I only set her at home, and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson, and so to bed. 19th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Detailed instructions were added relative to the address of a reply, which, although they betrayed the intervention of several hands, and made it difficult to arrive at any very probable conclusion in reference to her place of concealment, made it at least not unlikely that she had written from that spot where she was stated to have been seen.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

N.T. (ᾰ) Εἴδωλον , ου, τό, ( εἶδος ) pr. a form, shape, figure; image or statue; hence, an idol, image of a god, Ac. 7.41, et al.; meton.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

It is of such high antiquity that no man knows who built it or when it was built.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The soft, hazy twilight was just shading leaf and blossom alike into harmony with its own sober hues as we entered the room, and the sweet evening scent of the flowers met us with its fragrant welcome through the open glass doors.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Undoubtedly, if one species has any advantage over another, it will in a very brief time wholly or in part supplant it; but if both are equally well fitted for their own places, both will probably hold their separate places for almost any length of time.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

In our struggles he at last fell to the ground and I on top of him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He will maintain the barrier which was erected in the first place by our own unhappy reticence, and we may find it a hard task to penetrate behind it and prevent his constant return to secret thoughts and imaginings or secret habits and practices.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron

I often see him, and find that he has a pleasant recollection of you.
— from Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 2 (of 2) by Maurycy Karasowski

If our School has a good name, do we live so that people “may never be disappointed” in its Nurses?
— from Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital by Florence Nightingale

It's where you might expect a gang of dad blasted jabbering French good-for-nothings to be, off high-gannicking around shooting buffaloes instead of staying here and defending their wives, children, homes and country, damn their everlasting souls!
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

CHAPTER XXI TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS Dita had barely finished her breakfast the next morning when the message was brought to her that a lady who refused to give her name but insisted on seeing her at once upon important business awaited her in the reception-room.
— from The Beauty by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

The incident only served her as a hint always to exact cash down; and not to content herself with a yearly payment from the accruing revenue.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

In similar measure the importance of screening has also developed.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi