So homewards again, having great need to do my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of Whitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home where I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

‘Mr. James and myself, sir—’ ‘Nor to me, if you please,’ said I. Mr. Littimer, without being at all discomposed, signified by a slight obeisance, that anything that was most agreeable to us was most agreeable to him; and began again.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“My ethical sense,” Sir Bertram observed, “in the question of ‘meum and tuum’, has always been a little elastic, but did you possibly suggest that he was a buyer of stolen goods?”
— from Stolen Idols by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

They were not likely to bark much more, although they howled a bit, as Cudjo reached them with his long spear, and finished them in a trice.
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

He told me that he was going up to town on the morrow, and that Vernon was to accompany him; he asked me if there was anything he could do for me, and testified his affection by a thousand little attentions.
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The fearful convulsion, however, lasted only a few minutes, and the heavens again brightened as quickly as they had become obscured; my horse brought his feet to the natural position, raised his head, and galloped off as if loose and frolicking without a rider.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

And compared with such an art, in which conception and expression are simultaneous, her own art of words and phrases would at such moments appear to her as but a pale reflection.
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

If we would form an adequate conception of the nation’s influence, we must take into account the numerous Greek colonies which were planted in Asia Minor and on the southern shore of the Black Sea, on the coast of Macedonia, along the Hellespont and Bosporus, and also in Sicily and Italy, where a new Greek world sprang up, which received the name of Magna Græcia .
— from Greece Painted by John Fulleylove; described by J.A. McClymont by J. A. (James Alexander) M'Clymont

Sometimes Bragi gave a draught of Kvasir's blood to some favored mortal, and then he also became a great poet.
— from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown

We'll just be married and take mother and Toady home and be as jolly as grigs, and never think of Mrs. K. again,—unless she loses her fortune, or gets sick, or comes to grief in any way.
— from Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Baker had been commissioned by Bellomont a lieutenant of militia and Thompson had also been an officer in the militia.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

Before doing so we may mention that the pulper, which is considered a very imperfect machine, is generally driven by four men at two handles, aided by a fly-wheel; the power is immediately applied to turn the barrel, to which is connected a large cog-wheel, which moves a pinion attached, to work a sieve or riddle.
— from Coffee and Chicory: Their culture, chemical composition, preparation for market, and consumption, with simple tests for detecting adulteration, and practical hints for the producer and consumer by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds