So to the office again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten’s, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom I could not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us from the Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great estate and of good report), about some business from them to us, which we answered by letter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Oppressus paupertate animus nihil eximium, aut sublime cogitare potest, amoenitates literarum, aut elegantiam, quoniam nihil praesidii in his ad vitae commodum videt, primo negligere, mox odisse incipit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This is sheer nonsense; being based on policy and nothing else, as shown in another place.
— from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin Robison Delany

Now this is what some great men are very slow to allow; they insist that Education should be confined to some particular and narrow end, and should issue in some definite work, which can be weighed and measured.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

In ancient Rome was what was called the Ratumena Porta, 'a nomine ejus appellata (says Gessner in his Latin Thesaurus ) qui ludiero certamine quadrigis victor juvenis Veiis consternatis equis excussus Romæ periit, qui equi feruntur non ante constitisse quam pervenirent in Capitolium.'
— from Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various

The good priest anticipated no evil and sought no protection.
— from The History of Saint Augustine, Florida by William W. (William Whitwell) Dewhurst

She wished to write Rupert every particular about national events, and she could best feel the Puritan pulse through Jane; while from no one else could she obtain a knowledge of the household doings of Cromwell and his family.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

So to the office again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom I could not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us from the Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great estate and of good report), about some business from them to us, which we answered by letter.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

He had been using up his physical and nervous energy at such a ruinous rate during the past few hours, that he had overdrawn his account.
— from A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Archibald Alexander

A small pier, a narrow esplanade, and some small gardens form its chief artificial recommendations, and its one natural merit is an invigorating breeze which never seems to fail.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade