So home, calling in Ducke Lane for the book I bought this morning, and so home, and wrote my letters at the office, and then home to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay without any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore I have long ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to discover myself.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She dragged her tottering limbs from the bed to visit her son once more, but her strength failed her, and she sank powerless on the ground.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Chivalry!—why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

(But of this total not more than nine hundred thousand were engaged in the battle, with one hundred and fifty scythe-chariots; since Abrocomas, on his march from Phoenicia, arrived five days too late for the battle.)
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

but these, I should indeed long for the better; but still must even for these alone praise Thee; for that Thou art to be praised, do show from the earth, dragons, and all deeps, fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind, which fulfil Thy word; mountains, and all hills, fruitful trees, and all cedars; beasts, and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls; kings of the earth, and all people, princes, and all judges of the earth; young men and maidens, old men and young, praise Thy Name.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Up betimes, and by water to Charing Cross, and so to W. Coventry, and there talked a little with him, and thence over the Park to White Hall, and there did a little business at the Treasury, and so to the Duke, and there present Balty to the Duke of York and a letter from the Board to him about him, and the Duke of York is mightily pleased with him, and I doubt not his continuance in employment, which I am glad of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The horizon was illumined with phosphorescent light from the breakers just passed through.
— from Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum

2 s. 7. LETTERS FROM THE BALTIC.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The arrangement made for the Kusminskoie estate was to remain in force, only there remained to be determined what part of the rent he was to appropriate to himself, and what was to be left for the benefit of the peasants.
— from The Awakening (The Resurrection) by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A snow-obliterated path led from the back door of the office to David's house, and John snatched his hat and started for it on a run.
— from The Christmas Story from David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott

Audouin leaped from the buggy hastily, and went on through the weedy front yard to the door of the bare white farmhouse.
— from Babylon, Volume 2 by Grant Allen

And Quiz looked forward to being a lawyer.
— from The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes

By land the Russians were less formidable than by sea; and as they fought for the most part on foot, their irregular legions must often have been broken and overthrown by the cavalry of the Scythian hordes.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

The heart from the moment of its first beat instinctively longs for the beautiful; the means we possess to gratify it are limited—we are always trying to find the statue in the rude block.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

And I longed for the breaking of day.
— from The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Wilfred S. Skeats