So to bed and lay in good ease all night, and.... pretty well to the morning.....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Nay, when our oak flowered, or put on its leaves ( its glad Events ), what shout of proclamation could there be?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

in fact, we are to understand that such a great man as Laevsky is great even in his fall: that his dissoluteness, his lack of culture and of moral purity, is a phenomenon of natural history, sanctified by inevitability; that the causes of it are world-wide, elemental; and that we ought to hang up a lamp before Laevsky, since he is the fated victim of the age, of influences, of heredity, and so on.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This seemed odd to me, for when I retired from the rebel army in '61 I retired upon Louisiana in good order; at least in good enough order for a person who had not yet learned how to retreat according to the rules of war, and had to trust to native genius.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Why, it must be three years since last I gave Eniusha a meal."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“She MUST spare me!” cried Lucy, in growing excitement.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The young man who was told to sell all his goods and give to the poor, must have been an entirely exceptional person if the advice was given wisely, either for him or for the poor; how much more often does it happen that we perceive a man to have all sorts of good qualities except money, and feel that his real duty lies in getting every half-penny that he can persuade others to pay him for his services, and becoming rich.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“Look at this,” she turned suddenly to me, unfolding the letter in great excitement.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"From these letters I gather," exclaimed she, "that their wretched offspring knows not of his fortune.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

Even their loved invalid, Grandma Elsie, was looking wonderfully bright and well; yet, as she laughingly averred, everybody seemed determined to consider her as ill and unable to make any exertion.
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley

London is good enough for me."
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

Coincident with the Treaty of Paris, in 1229, was an ordonnance issued in the name of the boy-king, Louis IX., giving efficient assistance by the royal officials to the Church in its efforts to purge the land of heresy.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Nor was there any lack of boats, and still less of men, though we may take it that the number of 300,000 fighting men claimed for the negro leader is greatly exaggerated.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

Indeed it continued much longer; but as this was occasioned by our being wind-bound in our own ports, it was by no means of any ill consequence to the captain, as the additional stores of fish, fresh meat, butter, bread, &c., which I constantly laid in, greatly exceeded the consumption, and went some way in maintaining the ship's crew.
— from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

But if they sneak in and let it go easy so as not to alarm anybody, why, then, it’ll look as if we’ve had ’em sized up right.”
— from The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station by John Henry Goldfrap

Essays by Harrison, Bagehot; A. Lang, in Gadshill edition of Dickens's works.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

As I approached, the monster lifted its glaring eyes to mine, its lips went trembling back from its red-stained teeth, and it growled menacingly.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells