Pretty discourse, very pleasant and ingenious, and so to my office a little, and then home (after prayers) to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Being come near the gate of the church, we spied a huge thick book, gilt, and covered all over with precious stones, as rubies, emeralds, (diamonds,) and pearls, more, or at least as valuable as those which Augustus consecrated to Jupiter Capitolinus.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

In addition to the scrubbing, particles of food which are lodged between the teeth should be removed after meals, or at least after the last meal of the day.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

In the laws of Connecticut, as well as in all those of New England, we find the germ and gradual development of that township independence which is the life and mainspring of American liberty at the present day.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But it is most of all in the music and the symmetry made of adverse life and death by the power of love, as this is seen from highest to lowest, from lowest to highest, that the Revelation of God as Love that is All in all is received.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The Reason perhaps may be, because no other Vice implies a want of Courage so much as the making of a Lie; and therefore telling a man he Lies, is touching him in the most sensible Part of Honour, and indirectly calling him a Coward.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Dined, and so to my office a little, and then to church again, where a drowsy sermon, and so home to spend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her closett, clothes, and other things.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To shift the emphasis in this way means that philosophic questions will fall to be treated by minds of a less abstractionist type than heretofore, minds more scientific and individualistic in their tone yet not irreligious either.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I have but to punish my opponents a little, and myself much, and having punished expire.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Three years later, one Peter Pond penetrated to within thirty miles of Athabasca Lake, and established a trading post at that point.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

“No; or it is but the miracle of a little activity and a great deal of good will,” was the answer of my companion.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

I may therefore conclude by pointing out that in a Lithuanian tale, published and translated into German in the Litauische Volkslieder und Märchen of A. Leskien and K. Brugman (p. 202 and p. 471), the bean has the same "signature" as it had in ancient Italy.
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch

Accordingly, it was the scope of every alteration made by her in the service-book of Edward, to give it more of a Lutheran aspect, and it was for some time apprehended that she would cause the entire Confession of Augsburg to be received into it.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The interest due on the 1st November was paid by means of a loan authorized by the Council on the 18th October.
— from The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe

The day after the sail that we had spent in dough masks, Mabel had evidently spent in the mask of a lively, agreeable, obliging girl, doing everything in her power to make herself attractive to her possible hostess.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed