You know you might fall sick,' said Mr Boffin. 'Don't deny it, Mrs Higden, in your obstinacy; you know you might.' Old Betty laughed, and said that she would take the letter and be thankful.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Thence away, and took up wife and girl, and home, and to the office, busy late, and so to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
The Sergeant beckoned to her, and she arose without a murmur, and went with him and the soldiers, two only being left as sentinels, to see that no one stirred from the house till orders came.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
I will swear to it, that woman lives in some secret hell of her own making, and longs for the release of death; and is so inveterately full of bodily life and strength, that she may carry her burden with her to the utmost verge of life.
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins
16 Marcellianus, rules as independent tyrant over Dalmatia, III. vi. 7 ; won over by Leon and sent to Sardinia against the Vandals, III. vi. 8 ; destroyed by treachery, III. vi. 25 Marcellus, commander of auxiliaries, III. xi. 6 ; on the left wing at the battle of Tricamarum, IV. iii. 4 ; commander-in-chief of Roman forces in Numidia, IV. xv.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius
When England did enjoy her Halsion dayes, Her noble Sidney wore the Crown of Bayes; As well an honour to our British Land, As she that swayed the Scepter with her hand; Mars and Minerva did in one agree, Of Arms and Arts he should a pattern be, Calliope with Terpsichore did sing, Of poesie, and of musick, he was King; His Rhetorick struck Polimina dead, His Eloquence made Mercury wax red; His Logick from Euterpe won the Crown, More worth was his then Clio could set down.
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell
It was in 1769 that a band of about two hundred men set out by land and sea to settle in Alta California.
— from California Missions: A Guide to the Historic Trails of the Padres by Karl F. (Karl Frederick) Brown
So now I am your slave, overcome by love;” and saying this, she honoured Naraváhanadatta with baths and other hospitalities.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta
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