On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, Esq., R.A.—B.] and news of Mr. Sheply’s going thither the next week.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I reside with my wife and children in a little pavilion in the grounds; my subordinate resides in the establishment.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It'll all come right in the end.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

all our last Supply of Elk has Spoiled in the repeeted rains which has been fallen ever Since our arrival at this place, and for a long time before, Scerce one man in Camp Can host of being one day dry Since we landed at this point, the Sick getting better, my man York Sick with Cholick & gripeing H2 anchor [Clark, December 15, 1805] December 15th Sunday 1805 I Set out with 16 men in 3 Canoes for the Elk proced up the 1st right hand fork 4 miles & pack the meat from the woods to the Cano from 4 mile to 3 miles distance all hands pack not one man exempted from this labour I also pack my Self Some of this meat, and Cook for those out in packing Some rain in the evening Cloudy all day, the last load of meat all the party got out of the road or Direction and did not get to the Canoe untill after night, 5 did not join to night H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The leaves wrapt in a colewort leaf and roasted in the embers, and applied to a hard imposthume, botch, boil, or plague sore, doth both ripen and break it.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

[Is it not more probable that Antiochus was an officer in the service of the Caesar who ruled in the East?—M.] Chosroes was succeeded in the year 322 by his son Diran.
— 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

we are then drunk with pleasure, and perceive nothing: yet as the prodigal son had dainty fare, sweet music at first, merry company, jovial entertainment, but a cruel reckoning in the end, as bitter as wormwood, a fearful visitation commonly follows.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Washington was model'd on the best Saxon, and Franklin—of the age of the Stuarts (rooted in the Elizabethan period)—was essentially a noble Englishman, and just the kind needed for the occasions and the times of 1776-'83.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But all came right in the end, for "Allah's aid is ever near at hand."
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

And finally, there is the reasonable certainty that this sun of ours must radiate itself toward extinction; that, at least, must happen; it will grow cooler and cooler, and its planets will rotate ever more sluggishly until some day this earth of ours, tideless and slow moving, will be dead and frozen, and all that has lived upon it will be frozen out and done with.
— from The Discovery of the Future by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was now eleven o'clock, and Sværholt glowed in fiery bronze lustre as we rounded it, the eddies of returning birds gleaming golden in the nocturnal sun, like drifts of beech leaves in the October air.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

The citizens and residents of the town evidently did not wish to remain idle, but gathered on the ramparts; in their eyes could be read desperate resistance.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Apparently, the noisy standard-bearers of civil liberties and political rights, in the eighteenth century, were not exactly pioneers, but mere plagiarists.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

At the other extreme Surface (1906:167) wrote of constrictor in [423] Pennsylvania that hatching may occur as late as October, and that there is evidence some young may even remain in the egg over winter before hatching occurs.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

It is singular, that after all there is nothing ridiculous in these exhibitions; on the contrary, something rather terrible.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

These measures were revolutionary in the extreme.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

Their fears combined with their pride; and the shouts of the mob, the whine of the cordeliers, still ringing in their ears, they deemed united resistance the only course left to protect their lives, and avenge their affront.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Why, how rude!" says Mrs. Butt, gazin' around bewildered; and then, as she spots that approvin' smile on Auntie's face, she turns red in the ears.
— from Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford