Bongeor, of St. Nicholas, in Colchester; Thomas Penold, Colchester, tallow chandler; W. Pucras, of Bocking, Essex, fuller, 20; Agnes Silversides, Colchester, widow, 70; Helen Ewring, wife of John Ewring, miller, of Colchester, 45; and Eliz.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

HOPWOOD (Lady Julia), English; made a journey to Spain between 1818 and 1819, and had there for a time a chamber-maid known as Caroline, who was none other than Antoinette de Langeais, who had fled from Paris after Montriveau jilted her.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I, in particular, was so much elevated, that nothing would serve me but a wench; at which demand Jackson expressed much joy, and assured me I should have my desire before we parted Accordingly, when he had paid the reckoning, we sallied out, roaring and singing; and were conducted by our leader to a place of nocturnal entertainment, where Mr. Jackson's dress attracted the assiduities of two or three nymphs, who loaded him with caresses, in return for the arrack punch with which he treated them, till at length sleep began to exert his power over us all, and our conductor called “To pay.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Schneider, the professor who treated me and taught me, too, in Switzerland, gave me just enough money for my journey, so that now I have but a few copecks left.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Puck Mulligan, panamahelmeted, went step by step, iambing, trolling: John Eglinton, my jo, John, Why won’t you wed a wife?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He called to me and said, ‘A thief has just entered my home, and I have come to shoot him dead.’
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

He started on the excursion in a joyously expectant mood.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I took Noguchi and my six Japanese escort men with me.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

With engraving of bust by Woolner, and illustrations by Thomas Creswick, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, William Macready, John Calcott Horsley, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Clarkson Stanfield, and Daniel Maclise.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Whitworth, Sir Joseph , eminent mechanician, born at Stockport; the rival of Lord Armstrong in the invention of ordnance; invented artillery of great range and accuracy; was made a baronet in 1869 (1803-1887).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

“Sonnet, Dedication,” &c. A mi Esposa. Cuando en mis venas fèrvidas ardia La fiera juventud, en mis canciones
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

By Joseph E. Morris , B.A.
— from Hertfordshire by Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth) Tompkins

The celebrated John Evelyn mentioned having paid a visit to him at his house at Hammersmith, in 1695, when he had become aged and blind, but was still remarkable for his mechanical ingenuity.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

She was surprised to find that the former correspondent had put off his extravagances for a more judicial editorial manner.
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

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— from The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley

In 1859 "Once a Week" was started by Bradbury and Evans, and the first volume contained illustrations by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), G. H. Bennett, W. Harvey, Charles Keene, W. J. Lawless, John Leech, Sir J. E. Millais, Sir John Tenniel, J. Wolf; this is the veritable connecting link between the work of the past as exemplified by Harvey, and of the present by Keene.
— from Modern Illustration by Joseph Pennell

His genius matured early, though to the great perplexity of our human judgment, early maturity was followed by early death.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

And no wonder that excess should prove 408 the bane of Icarus, exulting in juvenile strength and vigor; for excess is the natural vice of youth, as defect is that of old age; and if a man must perish by either, Icarus chose the better of the two; for all defects are justly esteemed more depraved than excesses.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon