Therefore after having locked up my Maid, and not being so much unlike her in Height and Shape, as in a huddled way not to pass for her, I delivered the Bundle designed to be carried off to her Lover's Man, who came with the Signal to receive them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

For behold, O Lord, our God, our Creator, when our affections have been restrained from the love of the world, by which we died through evil-living; and begun to be a living soul, through good living; and Thy word which Thou spokest by Thy apostle, is made good in us, Be not conformed to this world: there follows that also, which Thou presently subjoinedst, saying, But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind; not now after your kind, as though following your neighbour who went before you, nor as living after the example of some better man (for Thou saidst not, "Let man be made after his kind," but, Let us make man after our own image and similitude), that we might prove what Thy will is.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"You may leave us," Miss Minchin announced to the servants with a wave of her hand.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

For in the world which is not ours, they said, 'Let us make man,' and that which should be man, From that one light no man can look upon, Drew to this shore lit by the suns and moons And all the shadows.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The more than beauty of a face Whose lineaments, upon my mind, Are—shadows on th’ unstable wind: Thus I remember having dwelt Some page of early lore upon, With loitering eye, till I have felt The letters—with their meaning—melt To fantasies—with none.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

saith the Lord: and shall not My soul be avenged of such a nation as this?' These things, I say, lay upon my mind, and I went home very much grieved and oppressed with the horror of these men's wickedness, and to think that anything could be so vile, so hardened, and notoriously wicked as to insult God, and His servants, and His worship in such a manner, and at such a time as this was, when He had, as it were, His sword drawn in His hand on purpose to take vengeance not on them only, but on the whole nation.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

I locked up my money, and warning my faithful Spaniard that I should not be coming back, I went to my idol, having got wet through on the way, and being obliged to undress as soon as I arrived.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Before Miss Pole left us, Miss Matty and I were as full of the morning’s adventure as she was.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

After all this, I took my money, and went home on foot and laying up my money, and changing my stockings and shoes, I this day having left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper’s, where I met with W. Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion to use a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who told us how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St. James’s, and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to what they had began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into the City, and be received there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Look up, my Mary, and mark those clouds of light," said Herbert.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

I hope that it may be given to me to live until my mood also is as a dark tower full of armed men.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

The Peace Congress has left upon my mind a strong impression of what the lovers of humanity could accomplish if they were all and always in earnest.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The secretary and engineer to the commissioners who cut up, levelled and made over New York was John Randel, Jr., and he has left us most minute and prolific writings, covering everything
— from Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin

Pray as did the Psalmist, “Put a guard, O Lord, unto my mouth, and a door unto my lips.”
— from Talkers: With Illustrations by John Bate

The unbroken red lines and the red lettering upon my map are copied from a map, also kindly placed at my disposal, which has been recently prepared by Father Fillodean of the Mission of the Sacred Heart, and these lines mark roughly what the Fathers of the Mission believe to be the boundaries of the several linguistic areas within the district covered by their map.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

This was Cobbett's Political Register for November 24, 1810, containing Hazlitt's letter upon "Mr. Malthus and the Edinburgh Reviewers," signed "The Author of a Reply to the Essay on Population .
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

He left upon my mind a blurred impression of sleeping out-of-doors like human cocoons, done up in blankets, while the savage mercury lurked in unknown depths below the zero mark.
— from On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

The jealous woman had always looked upon Mary Marchmont as a despicable rival.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon