Here I saw the Royal Society bring their new book, wherein is nobly writ their charter’ and laws, and comes to be signed by the Duke as a Fellow; and all the Fellows’ hands are to be entered there, and lie as a monument; and the King hath put his with the word Founder.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Wà makalaun ang tabákù kay anam, The tobacco didn’t get a chance to age because they kept smoking it as it matured.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

she replied, smiled through her tears, bent over closer to him, paused for an instant as if asking herself whether she might, and then kissed him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For upon the bounteous earth Zeus has thrice ten thousand spirits, watchers of mortal men, and these keep watch on judgements and deeds of wrong as they roam, clothed in mist, all over the earth.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

He feels very grateful to them for the interest they have in him, and for the kind promises they make; but the power of speech is gone again, and he has much ado to keep his feet, even though leaning on his master’s arm.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The historians consider that, next to the battle of Borodinó and the occupation of Moscow by the enemy and its destruction by fire, the most important episode of the war of 1812 was the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazána to the Kalúga road and to the Tarútino camp—the so-called flank march across the Krásnaya Pakhrá River.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For the Rational Egoist—a man who had learnt from Hobbes that Self-preservation is the first law of Nature and Self-interest the only rational basis of social morality—and in fact, its actual basis, so far as it is effective—such a thinker might accept the Kantian principle and remain an Egoist.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The fifth day I cudgeled my brain till midnight, and then kept the press waiting while I penned some bitter personalities on six different people.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

To say that you think, by the manners and fashions of the parents, to know the daughters, wherefrom you argue to give me a wife such as will please me, is a folly, since I know not whence you may avail to know their fathers nor yet the secrets of their mothers; and even did you know them, daughters are often unlike their parents.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

No good Work carries its own [Pg 123] Reward with it so much as this kind of Charity : and therefore, be the Expence what it will, it must never be thought unreasonable.
— from A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead

The sword of Mohammed and the Koran are the most stubborn enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known."— Church Missionary Intelligencer , November, 1885.]
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

"Never mind about the keys," said Daphne, loftily.
— from Affinities, and Other Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Although Harry was not of a revengeful disposition, he rejoiced exceedingly when he heard, two or three months after the king's restoration, of the execution of that doubly-dyed traitor, the Earl of Argyll.
— from Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Lancaster’s stately Savoy Palace was soon in flames; also the Marshalsea and the King’s Bench Temple, the dwellings and offices of the hated lawyers.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

The seduction scene is well managed at the Kammerspielhaus.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

According to orders Nur Mahomed presented himself early the next morning at the king’s private apartments.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

It is an infinite pity that no report exists of any interview between Montrose and the King during this visit.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris