Henchard's visits here grew so frequent and so regular that it soon became whispered, and then openly discussed in Casterbridge that the masterful, coercive Mayor of the town was raptured and enervated by the genteel widow Mrs. Newson.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Fuvenal indeed mentions a drowsy Husband who raised an Estate by Snoring, but then he is represented to have slept what the common People call a Dog's Sleep; or if his Sleep was real, his Wife was awake, and about her Business.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Which I did by night to my very heart’s content, not only that it is done, but I find every thing right, and even beyond what, after so long neglecting them, I did hope for.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Before she had time to repeat her request and even before I was quite prepared to respond to the tide of joy, her head again sank back and she exclaimed, "Oh!
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The provinces that still adhered to the empire were repeopled and enriched by the misfortunes of those which were irrecoverably lost.
— 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

Herbert Spencer appreciated the fact that the new science of sociology required an extensive body of materials as a basis for its generalizations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The shafts of the bones are brittle, rarefied, and easily broken.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

down to that of Philippe le Bel, who was the most extravagant of kings, and at the same time the most ingenious in raising funds for the State treasury, the financial movement of Europe took root, and eventually became centralised in Italy.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The monarchical was represented and exercised by the consuls.
— 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

Under the grandson of Heraclius, in the neighborhood of Samosata, more famous for the birth of Lucian than for the title of a Syrian kingdom, a reformer arose, esteemed by the Paulicians as the chosen messenger of truth.
— 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

"Rudimentary structures" also receive an explanation by means of this theory.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

I passed my days in utter solitude, and only in the most roundabout and even base ways was I able to find out what was going on in the Ozhógin family, what the Prince was doing.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[119] One of them, Romanus, was received and entertained by the monks of St. Gall, and was persuaded to remain with them as teacher of church song according to the Antiphonary which he had brought with him from Rome.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

At Brierly, the society of her husband would enrich Isabel's mind with stores from his own deep resources; and her heart would become refined and exalted by Boscawen's strict integrity of thought and action.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

I don't suppose he ever reads an English book, except perhaps an ecclesiastical biography; he would say that he had no time to read a novel; probably he glances at the Christian Year on Sundays, and peruses a Waverley novel if he is kept in bed by a cold.
— from At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

In 1888 a new edition of Sir J. Herschel’s catalogue 325 of 1864 (revised and extended by Dreyer) was printed by the Royal Astronomical Society, and this includes 7840 objects!
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

He could recommend an excellent boatman who had a large, safe boat and who was most prudent, as well as his son.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

From the towns these evils seem to have been rigorously and effectually banished by ordinances from 1309 (Freeman’s Exeter, 165, 143) throughout the two following centuries.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

This onslaught put the Spaniards into an instant rage, and, encouraged by the Virgin’s smiles, they fell upon the heathen with sword and musketoon and stamped them out of existence.
— from Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner