Once more in the same year the Viking went forth, though the storms of autumn had already commenced to roar.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A report went about that Nambu Yahachirô and Shibayama Riôsuké, old friends of mine in the Satsuma yashiki at Yedo, had been put to death, the one by crucifixion the other by simple decapitation, and I felt that I should like to do something to avenge them, for to western minds the idea of taking the lives of prisoners was revolting.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

His poem the Messiah appeared in the Spectator in May 1712; the first draft of The Rape of the Lock in a poetical miscellany in the same year, and Addison's request, in 1713, that he compose a prologue for the tragedy of Cato set the final stamp upon his rank as a poet.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

After this manner I began to learn to write: I was much in the ship yard—Master Hugh’s, and that of Durgan & Bailey—and I observed that the carpenters, after hewing and getting a piece of timber ready for use, wrote on it the initials of the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Throwing himself on me like a madman, he tore me from my horse, beat me to his heart's content, and left me in the state your Majesty sees.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Gently, gently, Uncas, you are as impatient as a man in the settlements; you forget that light feet leave but faint marks!”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And here, to touch somewhat of greater families and households kept in former times by noblemen, and great estates of this realm, according to their honours or dignities, [101] I have seen an account made by H. Leicester, cofferer to Thomas Earl of Lancaster, for one whole year’s expenses in the Earl’s house, from the day next after Michaelmas, in the seventh year of Edward II., until Michaelmass in the eight year of the same king, amounting to the sum of £7957 13 s. 4½ d. as followeth:
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

A suspicion crossed my mind during my inspection of this noble charity, whether the superintendent had quite sufficient knowledge of the world and worldly characters; and whether he did not commit a great mistake in treating some young girls, who were to all intents and purposes, by their years and their past lives, women, as though they were little children; which certainly had a ludicrous effect in my eyes, and, or I am much mistaken, in theirs also.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Another party of French from Mobile, in the same year, advanced against the Creeks, who were also unsuccessful, and obliged to retreat with considerable loss.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 by Alexander Hewatt

You and I were, as I believe, married in the same year.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

Take notice that I think it should be so; I am only mentioning it to show you how inequalities spring up again, and, indeed, when I see the ground that they cover now I wonder where the others could have been.
— from Renée Mauperin by Jules de Goncourt

“I think that you had better leave it to Moonshine,” said I. “So I will.—Now, sir, as you have got me into this scrape, you must get me out of it.—D’ye hear?”
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

So they hired her, & set her out, and fraighted her as full as she could carry with passengers goods y t belonged to y e Massachussets, which rise to a good sume of money; intending to send y e plantations supply in y e other ship.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

The embassy of Mahomet was despatched from Medina in the seventh year of the Hegira, (A.D. 628.)
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

"There was music in the street, you know—I heard it and I suppose that it agitated me."
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

[Pg 157] “The first move is to set your brokers in New York at work, and buy a block of Powerville stock.”
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr

“It’s really most interesting to study your cousin’s methods,” he said presently.
— from The Princess Dehra by John Reed Scott

About the beginning of March, in the same year, Leibnitz went to Paris, where, with the assistance of Huygens, he devoted himself to the study of the higher geometry.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster