After having been a whole month in close confinement, she sent for the lord Chamberlain and lord Chandois, to whom she represented the ill state of her health from a want of proper air and exercise.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

SED NEC MAGIS ISTIS CASIBUS COMMUNE SIT FRUMENTUM QUAM
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

“Tell Monsieur I cannot come,” she said gently.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

51 The fact that faith may in certain circumstances save, the fact that salvation as the result of an idée fixe does not constitute a true idea, the fact that faith moves no mountains, but may very readily raise them where previously they did not exist—all these things are made sufficiently clear by a mere casual stroll through a lunatic asylum.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

DRESS.] Why dost thou laugh so, man? MOS: I cannot choose, sir, when I apprehend What thoughts he has without now, as he walks: That this might be the last gift he should give; That this would fetch you; if you died to-day, And gave him all, what he should be to-morrow; What large return would come of all his ventures; How he should worship'd be, and reverenced; Ride with his furs, and foot-cloths; waited on By herds of fools, and clients; have clear way Made for his mule, as letter'd as himself; Be call'd the great and learned advocate:
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

On we went through the driving dust and dismal scenery, making, I could clearly see, for Ypres.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

This effect his reasoning mind, with busy analysis and criticism, had hitherto partially suppressed, even at its first manifestation in Charing Cross Station.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

In passing over highway crossings, especially in cities and in running past stations, hand and motor cars should be so run that the man in charge could stop the car in its own length.
— from Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention by R. C. (Ralph Coffin) Richards

Two men in close confabulation strolled in, a third disconnected, but on their heels.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill

But as he still remained in the study, betraying the remains of a suspicion, Raimundo, with the audacity peculiar to women and weak men in critical circumstances, said firmly enough: "My capital and my sister's are intact; I can show you the securities this very minute."
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

But another rule said that the committee might in certain cases suspend or alter the rules.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed