At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home and Creed with me, and after dinner he and I two or three hours in my chamber discoursing of the fittest way for a man to do that hath money, and find all he offers of turning some into gold and leaving some in a friend’s hand is nothing more than what I thought of myself, but is doubtful, as well as I, what is best to be done of all these or other ways to be thought on.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is the first of the Noyades, what we may call Drownages, of Carrier; which have become famous forever.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Marry, our play is 'The most Lamentable Comedy and most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby.' BOTTOM.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The eminent man reassured him with a few cheering words, and then proceeded to make a more careful diagnosis of the case.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

If men were going to kill for notoriety's sake, and to win the glory of newspaper renown, a big trial, and a showy execution, what possible invention of man could discourage or deter them?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

to be poorly clad, or destitute of proper and sufficient clothing, 1 Co. 4.11: (L.G.) from Γυμνός , ή, όν, naked, without clothing, Mar. 14.51, 52; without the upper garment, and clad only with an inner garment or tunic, Jno. 21.7; poorly or meanly clad, destitute of proper and sufficient clothing, Mat. 25.36, 38, 43, 44.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

—El Río de la Plata produce también mucha carne de oveja.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Life, however, is not stable; it is fluid, in a continuous state of flux, so, while the development of structure to meet certain demands of adaptation is highly desirable and necessary, it of necessity has limits which must sooner or later be reached in every instance.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was three o'clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his Rectory at Lowick, only five miles from Tipton; and Dorothea, who had on her bonnet and shawl, hurried along the shrubbery and across the park that she might wander through the bordering wood with no other visible companionship than that of Monk, the Great St. Bernard dog, who always took care of the young ladies in their walks.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

(1) In the case of lectures, sermons, addresses, and dramatic and musical compositions, deposit one typewritten or manuscript copy of the work.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

T HE PARTNERSHIP between ROBERT and THOMAS SOUTHEY, Linen-drapers , &c., of this city, was by mutual consent dissolved on the 21st of July last; all persons to whom the [253] said partnership stood indebted, are to send their accounts to Robert Southey , Wine-street, and the persons indebted to them, are respectfully requested to pay the same to the said Robert Southey , who continues the trade as usual.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

I thought to gain courage by gaining time; at last I unbuttoned my coat, drew out the little volume, and presented it humbly with a trembling hand to M. Didot.
— from Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine

The same attempt, renewed with increased numbers, was again repulsed with loss to the British party—young Porter, only sixteen, among the most courageous defenders of the vessel.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

I spent there a charming half-hour in the fading light, looking at the pictures while my companion discoursed of her errand.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

The more conspicuous duties of his station —subscriptions, charities, the maintenance of grand establishments, the encouragement of the fine arts—were virtues admirably performed for him by others.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When I saw him enter, I drew my cap deep over my face, for he cannot have forgotten the whirl I gave him from his horse some fifteen years ago by a thrust of my lance."
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff