Paris was not then the dusty conglomeration of eight-story-high houses it now is.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I shall explain this night's transactions in the kingdom of the moon, a place where no one has yet arrived, save in his dreams.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He was saved from his fate, however, by the interference of Peters, who now approached and separated us, asking the cause of the disturbance.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I had given him many broad hints that his presence was not required, but he paid not the slightest attention to what I said.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

‘No use to them ,’ said Alice; ‘but it’s useful to the people who name them, I suppose.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Readers of the following pages will notice that Galen uses what we should call distinctly immoderate language towards those who ventured to differ from the views of his master Hippocrates (which were also his own).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

For my part, my lord, My purpose was not to have seen you here; But meeting with Salanio by the way, He did entreat me, past all saying nay, To come with him along.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

"Venerable Sir," they pleaded, "why need you be so down upon him?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Many salves and cosmetics were prepared with nitrum ; and in all probability articles of this kind, used chiefly among the women, are to be understood by the term nitron parthenicon , which occurs in Nicholas Myrepsius, in the beginning of the fourteenth century; matronicon , mentioned by the same, and by Alexander of Tralles, about the year 565; and the nitrum matronale of Marcellus Empiricus, in the fifth century.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Two of the outgoing judges resided within the States now overrun by revolt, so that if successors were appointed in the same localities they could not now serve upon their circuits; and many of the most competent men there probably would not take the personal hazard of accepting to serve, even here, upon the Supreme bench.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Two pieces of wood, properly shaped and painted, were next made use of; and in order to add solemnity to the farce, Mr. Barton held in his hand a stop-watch, whilst Mr. Lax minuted the effects produced.
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

“Do you believe it?” “Why, surely a man of his holy profession would not deceive us!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

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— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

When at last they approached the Occaneechee country and received promises of aid from Persicles, their provisions were nearly exhausted.
— from Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Pleasure and Pain were no sooner met in their new Habitation, but they immediately agreed upon this Point, that Pleasure should take Possession of the Virtuous, and Pain of the Vicious Part of that Species which was given up to them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Each Colonial Secretary had that little, and it proved the proverbial pistol which no one knew was loaded.
— from Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas by Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars