Bankert, it seems, is come home with the little fleete he hath been abroad with, without doing any thing, so that there is nobody of an enemy at sea.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Its site is called Anawasy or Amnasy, and is said to display considerable remains of the ancient town.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

How, indeed, should it come about that this particular logical relation, as soon as it is perceived, contracts, expands and shakes our limbs, whilst all other relations leave the body unaffected?
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

I said it certainly was not business that I came upon, but it was not quite a pleasant matter.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself.”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

You do not remind Mrs. Smith of having met her before, but on meeting again any one who was brought to your own house, or one who showed you an especial courtesy you instinctively say, "I am so glad to see you again." Including Someone In Conversation Without An Introduction On occasions it happens that in talking to one person you want to include another in your conversation without making an introduction.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But I trust that you see sufficiently that the Absolute has nothing but its superhumanness in common with the theistic God.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

It was a queer mood to have as one was coming {336} under Milan’s spell, and the sculptured and Gothic glories of the Cathedral, as it stands in completion to-day, are quite likely to add to, rather than detract from, any preconceived idea of the glories of the city and its treasures.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Struve, however, does not consider that the nebula of 1868 is distinct from Hind’s nebula, but he says, ‘What I see is certainly the variable nebula itself, only in altered brightness and spread over a larger space.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

Its English section is dividing into the tools of expediency and the pioneers of a New Generation—its Irish section into Castle Hacks and National Conservatives.
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

Mr. Perkins, an old lawyer and journalist of Illinois, who was acquainted with Lincoln for upward of twenty years, and who was his associate counsel in several important cases, writing from Belleview, Fla., under date of August 22, 1887, says: "The unfair efforts that Christians have been putting forth to drag Lincoln into their waning faith betray a pitiable imbecility.
— from Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian? by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

Till this minute I swear I could have told you; but in such straits a poor little tailor such as I might forget his own father’s honored name!”
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

I said I could not understand it either, but suggested the general influence of [241] liquor, and expressed my envy of their state.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

I have fought it since I came among you, without an hour’s wavering of purpose, and without an hour’s fear of the result; and at all costs, at any cost, I shall fight it till I go from you.
— from A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Denser it probably is; shallower it cannot be, for the great white spots, each often five or six thousand miles in diameter, that range themselves at times along the equatorial regions till they look like the portholes of a ship, evidently rise from depths great even as compared with their size.
— from Are the Planets Inhabited? by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder