[4450] author, quod extendi et locupletari hoc subjectum plerique postulabant, et eorum importunitate victus, animum utcunque renitentem eo adegi, ut jam sexta vice calamum in manum sumerem, scriptionique longe et a studiis et professione mea alienae, me accingerem, horas aliquas a seriis meis occupationibus interim suffuratus, easque veluti ludo cuidam ac recreationi destinans ;
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He described the shape, the posture, and the movement of it so exactly that it was the greatest matter of amazement to him in the world that everybody did not see it as well as he.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Your personal preferences were, as expressed, to make a new department East, adequate to my rank, with headquarters at Washington, and assign me to its command, to remove my family here, and to avail myself of its schools, etc.; to remove Mr. Stanton from his office as Secretary of War, and have me to discharge the duties.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

14 are marked off into six equal parts.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Johnson had supped the night before at Mrs. Abington's, with some fashionable people whom he named; and he seemed much pleased with having made one in so elegant a circle.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He vaunts he was the first invented this remedy, and by means of it speedily eased a melancholy man.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"You will bring it on Monday, or I shall evict you," says the Squire quietly.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

When did a pulpit ever fail of a sermon, or a journal of a leading article, or a magazine of its stated essay?
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Then at other times it would be the simple frolic and fancy of fiction—fairy tale and legend, Greek myth or Icelandic saga, episodes from Walter Scott, from Cooper, from Dumas; to be followed perhaps on the next evening by the terse and vigorous biography of some man of the people—of Stephenson or Cobden, of Thomas Cooper or John Bright, or even of Thomas Carlyle.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Thanks to my occupations, I stand entirely outside of the sphere where you could harm me."
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

This hostility was carefully nurtured by the insurgent leaders during the Rebellion, and much of it still exists.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

Mercury and Morphine Oleate: in syphilitic enlargement and chronic inflammation.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

The master of it, she especially regarded as a valuable friend, whose advice helped to guide her in one very important step of her life.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

This, then, had it been strictly in my métier, (a happy métier mine of literary leisure,) should have been my limnèd outline for the Nelson testimonial: the real interesting antique needle, rising from the midst of its solid Egyptian architecture, and pointing to the skies; not a steeple, however, but merely the obelisk raised upon a heavy base, only hollowed far enough to admit of an interior alto-relievo.
— from An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages by Martin Farquhar Tupper