But, however, according to the order of the Duke this morning, I did go to the ‘Change, and there after great pains did light of a business with Mr. Gifford and Hubland [Houblon] for bringing me as much as I hoped for, which I have at large expressed in my stating the case of the “King’s Fisher,” which is the ship that I have hired, and got the Duke of Yorke’s agreement this afternoon after much pains and not eating a bit of bread till about 4 o’clock.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Before him went his master and his fellow, each intently leaning forward to the left, each impassively moving with the paces of his horse; their shadows went before them—still, noiseless, tapering attendants; and nearer a crouched cool shape was his own.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At sunset, I made a long excursion in my dinghy round the western shores of Gumasila, and it was on that occasion that I discovered all those who had left that morning on the Kula sitting on Giyasila beach, in accordance with the Kula custom of a preliminary halt, such as the one on Muwa described in Chapter VII .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The first great economy to be noticed is that the item of “landlord’s rent,” which, under ordinary conditions, largely enters into municipal expenditure, will, in Garden City, scarcely enter at all.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

He held up his lantern, and looked earnestly in my uncle’s face, as he handed it in, when, by its light, my uncle saw, to his great surprise, that an immense crowd of mail-coach guards swarmed round the window, every one of whom had his eyes earnestly fixed upon him too.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

he affirms it; for love extended is mere madness.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

By 'language embellished,' I mean language into which rhythm, 'harmony,' and song enter.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Well then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate: fine word: legitimate!
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

To understand rightfully the present renaissance in Spain as revealed in the almost unprecedented prosperity of her rural population, the multiplying of schools and libraries endowed in many instances by unknown “hands across the sea,” the American student of Spanish must take into account the transcendental symbiosis through the agency of which lethargic Spain is being quickened and vitalized by her former colonies.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He regards it as the erection into an absolute dogma of a mere protest against the inequalities which came down from the middle ages, and answer no legitimate end in modern society.
— from Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

"This sad affair has upset him, of course, and—and he hasn't been very strong lately—not since we left England, indeed, my lord.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

This proves him to have died in Coleman Street, in the parish of St. Stephen, London, early in March 1714-15.
— from William Dampier by William Clark Russell

The last Effort it made seems to have been in Queen Mary's Days, as the curious Reader may find, if he pleases to peruse the Figures of Cardinal Poole , and Bishop Gardiner; tho' at the same time, I think it may be question'd, if Zeal against Popery has not induced our Protestant Painters to extend the Beards of these two Persecutors beyond their natural Dimensions, in order to make them appear the more terrible.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

She had undertaken to be back in London early in May, by appointment with her lawyer, and had unfortunately communicated the fact to Madame Gordeloup.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

This little event is mentioned as one of the many cases in which the common life of students engaged in heterogeneous subjects has advantages of an educational as well as of a social kind.
— from A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge by Alice Gardner