Moscou, la capitale asiatique de ce grand empire, la ville sacrée des peuples d’Alexandre, Moscou avec ses innombrables églises en forme de pagodes chinoises , * this Moscow gave Napoleon’s imagination no rest.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At noon to Sheriff Waterman’s to dinner, all of us men of the office in towne, and our wives, my Lady Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &c., and very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, but I left her to try her fortune.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He being ready, he and my Lord Chancellor, and Duke of Albemarle, and Prince Rupert, Lord Bellasses, Sir H. Cholmly, Povy, and myself, met at a Committee for Tangier.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr. Williams kissed my hand, as my master gave it him; and my master said, Sir, you will go home and dine with me, and I'll shew you my little chapel; and do you, Pamela, look upon yourself at liberty to number Mr. Williams in the list of your friends.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“I sit down in my little corner and drink tea and eat jam.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Debaëcque, a merchant, 45, Rue du Sentier, is in his own house; Couvercelle, florist, 257, Rue Saint Denis, is in his own house; Labitte, a jeweller, 55, Boulevard Saint Martin, is in his own house; Monpelas, perfumer, 181, Rue Saint Martin, is in his own house; they kill Monpelas, Labitte, Couvercelle, and Debaëcque.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And then, as I turned over, a sharp howl broke from my lips, causing Aunt Dahlia to shy like a startled mustang.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Where six women (my Lady Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably and most gloriously.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Also in this yere the kyng seyled into Fraunce, that is to seye the yere of oure lord a m l cccxxviij, and dede homage to the kyng of Fraunce for the ducherye of Guyene and for the counte of Pountyf.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

Professor Fraser, in his important edition of Berkeley's works (i. 444), reproduces from the Philosophical Transactions the original account of the operation, which is unfortunately much less clear and definite than Voltaire's emphasised version would make it, though its purport is distinct enough.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Morley

The idea of you findin' fault because a big man like Congressman Atkins don't jump when you holler 'Git up!'
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Much lively conversation, after dinner, begun among the ladies, but continued after the gentlemen appeared, on the subjects of Truth, Education, and Women's Rights, or, more strictly speaking, women's capabilities.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

You may be sure this was to touch a welcome topic, and I sat for some time in the midst of my learned counsel, almost deaved with their talk but extremely little the wiser for its purport.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

"A handsome man like Captain Arlingford does not find it very hard to be agreeable, I fancy; he is decidedly the best-looking young man here."
— from The Actress' Daughter: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Is manual labor considered a disgrace in other countries?
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

On the 24th April, 1884, the day which has recently been described in German publications as "the Birthday of the German Colonial Empire," Bismarck telegraphed to the German Consul at Cape Town as follows: "According to statements of Mr Luderitz, Colonial authorities doubt as to his acquisitions north of Orange River being entitled to German protection.
— from Germany's Vanishing Colonies by Gordon Le Sueur

Where, in the moon, as they were thrown, My merry men lie, cold and dead And motionless as stone.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, February 1850 by Various