However, in general we talked of our business, and I do not find that he will come to any lower terms than L150, which I think I shall not give him but by law, and so we parted, and I called upon Mr. Crumlum, and did give him the 10s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I am suffering from a very severe loss of blood, and I do not know what to do, having but very little linen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Onward they journeyed, through highway and byway, through villages where goodwives and merry lasses peeped through the casements at the fine show of young men, until at last they came over beyond Alverton in Derbyshire.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Wildremet had disappeared; I heard no more of Barthes, and it did not appear that his recommendation had brought me into great favor with those whom he had styled his patrons and fathers.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our voyage is only begun, and I do not wish to be deprived so soon of the honour of your company."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

and, with loud cries, under the very windows of the thanking National Assembly, demands revenge for murdered Brothers, judgment on Bouille, and instant dismissal of War-Minister Latour du Pin.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“I don’t doubt it—from the little I saw of him and the less I heard from him; but I don’t think so much of banks as I did.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Three or four hours after his arrival on the battlefield the Emperor was overcome by an irresistible desire for sleep, and, foreseeing the issue of the day, slept on the side of a ravine, in the midst of the batteries of the Duke of Ragusa, until he was awaked with the information that the battle was gained.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

[110] Katharine had shortly before complained of the insalubrity of Buckden and its distance from London.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

One blow, and I discharge his weary soul From the flesh that pollutes it!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

I am being befriended and honored by the whole of Byrdsville, and I don't know what to make of it.
— from Phyllis by Maria Thompson Daviess

If it had been otherwise however, and if the extent of bastardy, and its demoralising influence on public manners had been greater, I should still have recommended that the Irish females should be left, as now, the guardians of their own honour, and responsible in their own persons for all deviations from virtue.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

I was sure that that was an idea of Bélan, and I did not consider it a very happy one, for it nearly caused my wife to fall; but I caught her in time, and she said with a smile: “We were married without rose leaves, my dear.”
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

Ordinarily, then, whilst the relation of predicate to subject has been [Pg 162] observed in some cases, in much the greater number of cases our belief about it depends upon something besides observation, or may be said (in a certain sense) to be taken on trust.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

It was to be a mere catalogue of facts and dates, mingled with measurements of buildings, and irritating details as to the "E. E.," "Dec.," or "Perp." architecture even of the most insignificant churches, this being the peculiar hobby of the publisher.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

When I got the letter through Horus, in which you explain that you are in [Pg 441] sanctuary at the Serapeum in Memphis, I straightway gave thanks to the gods for your being in good health, but as for your not coming to us when the evils that threatened you there have passed away, I am disconsolate because such a long time I have been keeping myself and the child, and am come to the lowest point on account of the price of bread, and I did think that now you were coming I should find a little relief, but you seem to have no idea of coming to us, nor to have an eye to our circumstances, as you would if you were still here.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton