Up and to my chamber, where busy all the morning, and my thoughts very much upon the manner of my removal of my closett things the next weeke into my present musique room, if I find I can spare or get money to furnish it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Pardon my conceiving that any remembrance of me can give you disquiet; but if I am so gloriously wretched, sacrifice me every way to your relief.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

After they had assured themselves of the reality of my cabalistic science by questions respecting the past, they decided to turn it to some use by consulting it upon the present and upon the future.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So that I doubt, whether he and the rest of men could discourse concerning the objects of sight, or have any communication about colours, their appearances being so wholly different.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

At that time General Johnston's army occupied the form of a V, the angle reaching the road leading from Averysboro' to Goldsboro', and the flanks resting on Mill Creek, his lines embracing the village of Bentonsville.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A tremendous report was heard, but the piece had held good, and the colonists rushing to the windows, saw the shot graze the rocks of Mandible Cape, nearly five miles from Granite House, and disappear in Shark Gulf.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

I by reason of my cold could not tell how to sleep.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I walked both going and coming, spending my time reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical Law book.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The teachers then shook hands with me and kissed me, and a murmur of pleasure ran through the ranks of my companions.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The return of Miss Cressida McKinstry to Indian Spring and her interrupted studies was an event whose effects were not entirely confined to the school.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

But I hope soon to be out of the reach of my Cruel Persecutors, for I am determined to seek for that Peace and Protection in foreign Lands and among strangers which is deny’d me in my native country.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

Thurſday next is the day appointed for the execution of the two Taylors, for the robbery of Mr. Cunningham, on Boſton-Neck.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

He had been much shocked and grieved at his sister's account of Mary's death, and Herbert's deep affliction; but after he had been at home a few days, the influence of his natural light-heartedness extended over all, and rendered Oakwood more cheerful than it had been since the melancholy event we have narrated.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

But I will not bear the reproaches of my children.
— from Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

It is a mean world, and the wit and raillery of Martial cannot make it palatable.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

At that early time the most important fact that man had to take count of was the fact of the members of one particular race of men coming in close contact with one another.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

The problem he had to solve was one of such difficulty, that only one of those minds, the rare product of ages for the redemption of mankind, could be equal to its solution.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

It is so satisfyingly ridiculous a thing to do that wise people have no time to criticise the way I am putting in the rest of my crops.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur