Home to dinner, and in the afternoon to church again, my wife with me, whose mourning is now grown so old that I am ashamed to go to church with her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The same may be said of local light and shade, the latter of which is totally lost at great distances; and it is for this reason the shadowed side of the moon is not generally seen.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

Little as she was a woman to admit that she had been in the wrong she was known to have granted later that at this moment she had made a mistake in not going straight to her own house.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

It was an understood thing that Jawster Sharp was never to show his face again on the hustings of Darlford; the Liberal party was determined to be represented in future by a man of station, substance, character, a true Reformer, but one who wanted nothing for himself, and therefore might, if needful, get something for them.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In the case of many we can believe that such a purifying process might involve no great suffering; and we could endure the thought of it when we believed in its glorious issue.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

Might I not get so weak from hunger that I would perish before I could reach it?
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook