This information—extracted from a long rambling answer in the broadest Cumberland dialect—told me all that I most wanted to know.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

To see a [369] servant able to buy out his master, him that carries the mace more worth than the magistrate, which Plato, lib. 11, de leg. , absolutely forbids, Epictetus abhors.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

we crossed the river after part of the day and formed a Camp from which we intended to make the first portage, Capt. Lewis stayed on the Std Side to direct the Canoes over the first riffle 4 of them passed this evening the others unloaded & part of the Perogue Loading taken out—I deturmined to examine & Survey the Portage find a leavel rout if possible—The 2 men despatched to examine the Portage gave an unfavourable account of the Countrey, reporting that the Creek & 2 deep reveens cut the Prarie in such a manner between the river and mountain as to render a portage in their oppinion for the Canoes impossible—we Selected 6 men to make wheels & to draw the Canoes on as the distance was probably too far for to be caried on the mens Sholders H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" On this Meriones, peer of Mars, went to the tent and got himself a spear of bronze.
— from The Iliad by Homer

XL Such wondrous science in mans wit to raine When Jove avizd, that could the dead revive, And fates expired ° could renew againe, 355 Of endlesse life he might him not deprive,
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

" A second stone, carefully aimed, that made a savoury pigeon's leg fall from Conseil's hand, gave still more weight to his observation.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Up early, and, with Sir R. Slingsby (and Major Waters the deaf gentleman, his friend, for company’s sake) to the Victualling-office (the first time that I ever knew where it was), and there staid while he read a commission for enquiry into some of the King’s lands and houses thereabouts, that are given his brother.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If they haven’t a friend to talk to, they must whisper their secrets to the fishes, or write them on the sand, or something; and it’s well, too, I wasn’t over full to-night, now I think of it, or I might have snoozed away and never dreamt of looking what my sweet lady was about; or I might have lacked the sense or the power to carry my point like a man, as I have done.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In the morning, when the king found that they had fled, he prepared to pursue them, but was advised by one of his friends not to plan anything on a sudden or do it in haste.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with her daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and my wife to pass away the time.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Peterses were there from Ramsgate; and Mr., Mrs., and the two Miss Simpkinsons, from Bath, had come to pass a month with the family; and Tom Ingoldsby had brought down his college friend the Honourable Augustus Sucklethumbkin, with his groom and pointers, to take a fortnight's shooting.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

"Here they come," said I; and I returned to my former [215] position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that they should find me watching them.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

We left Miss Woolley to take care of the expected visitors, the children and I went to Singapore in the Sir James Brooke steamer, and Sir William Hoste gave a passage in H.M.S. Spartan to the Bishop and Alan Grant.
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

Ru became angry and said to Maui: "Who told youngsters to talk?
— from Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

Frontier Experiences 151 Chapter IX— Placating Indians on the Plains 171 Chapter X— Capt. Roeder’s Meeting with the Bandit Joaquin 180
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

The corrected words are marked with the HTML tag , and this tag is styled so that the corrected words have a light underline, thus: corrected , and when the cursor hovers over such a word, an explanation pops up.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

The line from Omaha is rapidly approaching the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, while the terminus of the last section of constructed road in California, accepted by the Government on the 24th day of October last, was but 11 miles distant from the summit of the Sierra Nevada.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Here Lieutenant Jack spoke right out in meeting with the rebellious remark, [147] — "Don't care if you are; you'd better mind yourself, and tell how you took away my strap, and kept the biggest doughnut, and didn't draw fair when we had the truck."
— from Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

"Oh, give them to the men," was the answer; "I have ceased to care for pearl-studded tiaras and collars.
— from East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield