Ballard’s wife, a pretty and a very well-bred woman, I took occasion to kiss several times, and she to carve, drink, and show me great respect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I'm sure it's the least I can do when you have been so kind, lending me things and helping me get ready," said Meg, glancing round the room at the very simple outfit, which seemed nearly perfect in their eyes.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Soon after, the Ant saw a man getting ready to kill the Dove with a stone.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

These words should have touched Tom Driscoll, but if they did, that effect was obliterated by a stronger one—one which removed the heavy weight of fear which lay upon him, 228 and gave his crushed spirit a most grateful rebound, and filled all his small soul with a deep sense of relief.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

For my sake, therefore, among many greater reasons, take care, dear Madam, of your health, spare no expence, and want no attendance that can procure ease, or preserve it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

May be seen by cards only, to be procured of Mr. George Robins, or the clerks of Billingsgate or Hungerfofd markets.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

All sorts of questions have arisen relating to the peasantry, the law courts, economics, government contracts, morals and ... and ... and those questions are endless, and all together may give rise to great upheavals, so to say.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For the present I wish rather to point out that the doctrine above stated is diametrically opposed to the view that the universal or normal motives of human action are either particular desires of pleasure or aversions to pain for the agent himself, or the more general regard to his happiness on the whole which I term Self-love; that it also excludes the less extreme doctrine that duties may be to some extent properly done from such self-regarding motives; and that one or other of these positions has frequently been held by writers who have expressly adopted an Intuitional method of Ethics.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And I dreamed my golden ring [pg.387] Sudden slipp'd from my right hand; Down my precious diamond fell.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

"Well—well—the child does not like it;" said Mr. Grey, rather shortly.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 1 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

It is asserted that when their hay is made, one of them lies upon its back, permits the hay to be heaped between its paws, keeping them upright to make greater room, and in this manner remaining still upon its back, is dragged by the tail, hay and all, to their common retreat.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843 by Various

So the monster fled wailing over the moors to his home in the gloomy mere, and Beowulf sank panting on a shattered seat, scarce believing in his victory, until his men gathered round, bringing a lighted torch, by the flaring gleam of which the green, scaly arm of Grendel looked ghastly and threatening.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

'To teach him music be my care,' Apollo said, the wise and fair; 'And mine,' that mighty god replied, In the Nemaean lion's hide, 'To teach him to subdue The vices, an envenom'd crew, Like Hydras springing ever new.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

It used to go instead to the watch-night service, and it was not above making good resolutions, which for the most part, no doubt, it promptly proceeded to break.
— from Windfalls by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

James McCabe Greenbank Reach Ontario, N. R. John Asling Greenbush Elizabethtown Town of Brockville William Foster Greenleaf Arthur Wellington, N. R. D. McIntyre Greenock Greenock Bruce J. B. Ritchie Green Point Sophiasburg Prince Edward Philip Roblin Greensville West Flamboro’ Wentworth, N. R. James Joyce Greenwood Pickering Ontario, S. R. A. Fullarton Grenville
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

This the ministers, for many good reasons, were resolved not to do: they could be no parties to any proceedings which brought into question the Church's discipline, and they had no warrant for taking part in such proceedings.
— from Andrew Melville by William Morison

My guide returned with the water-skin full even before the time he had indicated.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von