He came on the 3rd of September, and although a Committee of the Mint reported in favour of his method of coining, the Company of Moneyers, who appear to have boasted of the success of their predecessors in opposing the introduction of the mill and screw-press in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, prevented the introduction of the machinery, and consequently he did not produce pattern pieces until 1653....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He is very manly and can hold his own in all games.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On that day, Mrs. Inglethorp’s bell wire was neatly cut, and on Monday evening Mademoiselle Cynthia was spending the night with friends, so that Mrs. Inglethorp would have been quite alone in the right wing, completely shut off from help of any kind, and would have died, in all probability, before medical aid could have been summoned.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Certainly, many absurd claims have been made for some of the soluble coffees on the market.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Ye are right, sir,” returned the old man, again changing his tones to those of gentleness, or rather softness; “the girl is the image of what her mother was at her years, and before she had become acquainted with grief.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

He had at the same time taken up little Morning, and carried her to his wife, to conceal her in the lodging he had at the bottom of the courtyard.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He had 120,000 men at Châlons; he had it in his power to cover Paris.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

In war and negotiation, the councils of Madras and Calcutta, have upon several occasions, conducted themselves with a resolution and decisive wisdom, which would have done honour to the senate of Rome in the best days of that republic.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Enter the MESSENGER again Come hither, sir.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Notwithstanding that both had been self-fertilised for many previous generations, each would almost certainly have possessed its own peculiar constitution; and this degree of differentiation would have been sufficient to make a cross highly beneficial.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

The mother and children, having lost all their property, sought refuge in Canterbury, Connecticut, their native place, whence they did not return till peace was established.
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

Jack and Ellen and Mabel and Charlie had gone out in the tender to follow some fishermen and make arrangements for getting Mabel the coveted lobsters.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht by Margaret Love Sanderson

"New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut," he adds, "consented to the prolonging of the foreign slave trade for twenty years, or until 1808; and in return South Carolina and Georgia consented to the clause empowering Congress to pass Navigation Acts and otherwise 30 regulate commerce by a simple majority of votes."
— from Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford

Sixteen points mean a complete half-circle, and round come our ships, the Lion leading, turning in a curve of which the diameter is nearly a mile, and heading now to the north, towards Jellicoe, instead of to the south, away from him.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

At the request of the grand master of the Order of the Knights of Idleness, Mere Cognette produced one of her relatives, an old maid whose master, a curate, had lately died without leaving her anything,—an excellent cook, withal,—who declared she would devote herself for life or death to Max and Flore.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He was raging, “By golly, here they go and use up all the towels, every doggone one of 'em, and they use 'em and get 'em all wet and sopping, and never put out a dry one for me—of course, I'm the goat!—and then I want one and—I'm the only person in the doggone house that's got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to use the doggone bathroom after me and consider—” He was pitching the chill abominations into the bath-tub, pleased by the vindictiveness of that desolate flapping sound; and in the midst his wife serenely trotted in, observed serenely, “Why Georgie dear, what are you doing?
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

He went back to the field to look for the dead bodies of the Count and his brother, and he could not have done that without running a great risk of being killed or taken prisoner, and it was not till he had assured himself of the sad fact that Count Louis and the rest were dead that he led off his men, and came here to give us warning that we might prepare for the enemy.”
— from The Lily of Leyden by William Henry Giles Kingston

Montmorin is to write to Lucerne, to make a communication here from the National Assembly, of their intention to maintain peace with other countries.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of