He has been up to Ingleside only twice." "Ethel Reese is simply crazy about him," said Mary Vance.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery; and when answered Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers begging God’s forgiveness, than now running into such courses again....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Bridal Party Eat By the time the sit-down breakfast has reached its second course and the queue of arriving guests has dwindled and melted away, the bride and groom decide that it is time they too go to breakfast.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

As the cylinder revolves, the recorder is shifted continuously along by a leading screw having one hundred or more threads to the inch cut on it, so that it traces a continuous helical groove from one end of the wax cylinder to the other.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

My other self, the partner of my life; Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal, and not expose to blame By my complaint: but strict necessity Subdues me, and calamitous constraint;
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

in evil strait this day I stand Before my Judge, either to undergoe My self the total Crime, or to accuse My other self, the partner of my life; Whose failing, while her Faith to me remaines, I should conceal, and not expose to blame 130 By my complaint; but strict necessitie Subdues me, and calamitous constraint, Least on my head both sin and punishment, However insupportable, be all Devolv'd; though should I hold my peace, yet thou Wouldst easily detect what I conceale.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Even our laws, cold and cruel as they are, relent in such cases, and withhold their punishment.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now it came to pass in the year 1326, as it has been said in his Life, that Giotto was called by means of Charles, Duke of Calabria, who was then staying in Florence, to Naples, in order to make some things for King Robert in S. Chiara and other places in that city; wherefore Giotto, passing by way of Orvieto on his way to Naples, in order to see the works that had been made and were still being made there by so many men, wished to see everything minutely.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Von Kronhelm, it is reported, is at Hampstead, and the zone of the enemy’s artillery reaches, in some cases, as far south as the Thames itself.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

His brothers, Don Revolt in Spain Carlos and Francisco, became the heads of this movement and rallied their supporters around them, in the Basque provinces.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

And on the thirteenth of February, the same edifice saw a State Convention meet within its walls; on the sixteenth of April, Governor Letcher refused the requisition of the Secretary of War for troops to assist in putting down the Rebellion in South Carolina; and the next day the Ordinance of Secession was passed, two months having been given to an active discussion of its expediency, pro and con.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

In Auvergne, the Vivarrais, the Eifel, and along the whole basaltic range from the Rhine to the Riesengebirge in Silesia, carbonic acid gas is exhaled in incredible quantities from the vast laboratories of the subterranean world.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

Several houses in the town were on fire, and the smoke hung over the river in such clouds as to obscure the north bank.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

It is really surprising that Bedford Street, one of the great leading avenues to the Strand, should continue to remain in so confined a state towards the bottom; it resembles a great bottle with a small neck; there is not literally at its entrance from the Strand room for two coaches to go abreast, yet forty yards higher it is roomy and spacious.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

He also built another altar, and began to offer the sacrifices; and when the city had already received its sacred constitution again, Antiochus died; whose son Antiochus succeeded him in the kingdom, and in his hatred to the Jews also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The increasing efficiency of the various gas-burners is indicated by the following, which are approximately the candle-power based upon equal rates of consumption, namely, one cubic foot of gas per hour: Candle-power per cubic foot of gas per hour Fish-tail flames, depending upon size 0.6 to 2.5 Argand, depending upon improvements 2.9 to 3.5 Regenerative 7 to 10 It is seen that the possibilities of gas lighting were recognized in several countries, all of which contributed to its development.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

As soon as they received Conolly's letter they proceeded to declare war in the regular Indian style, calling a council, planting the war-post, and going through other savage ceremonies,[22] and eagerly waited for a chance to attack their foes.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt