The king of Sardinia also wrote to him, and sent a gold box set with diamonds.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Then is the Old Swan, a great brewhouse.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Our Superiors are guided by Intuition, and our Inferiors by Instinct.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

the under wood consists of the narrow leafed or small willow, the small honeysuckle, rosebushes, currant, serviceberry, and goosbery bushes; also a small species of berth in but small quantities the leaf which is oval finely, indented, small and of a deep green colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This was the project of Leibnitz, before spoken of, which has special interest for our subject because, in proposing to reverse the lines which Louis then laid down, to make continental expansion secondary and growth beyond the sea the primary object of France, the tendency avowedly and necessarily was to base the greatness of the country upon the control of the sea and of commerce.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Within an hour an ambulance came in (attended by Colonels Clark and Strong, and Captains Steele and Gile), bearing McPherson's body.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

They got scorched out by and by, and drearily set about getting breakfast.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I was always sorry for them, for in nine cases out of ten they were well-meaning persons; they were in the main very poorly paid; their constitutions were as a rule above suspicion; and there were recorded numberless instances of their self-sacrifice and generosity; but they had had the misfortune to have been betrayed into a false position at an age for the most part when their judgement was not matured, and after having been kept in studied ignorance of the real difficulties of the system.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite clear that she was not to.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

M. Grimani congratulated me warmly on my good luck, and promised all his friendly care to secure a good boarding-house, to which I would go at the beginning of the year, and where I would wait for the bishop’s arrival.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thus the progress of the general plan, from the conception within the ovule, is traced, species by species, and genus by genus, until we pass ashore with the zostera and a few other similar borderers, and ascend through the mosses, ferns, and grasses, to the flowering plants and trees, and reach the summit of the second organic kingdom, where mind alone seems wanting to complete the conditions of life.
— from Art-Studies from Nature, as Applied to Design For the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers by James Glaisher

An altar-piece by Quentin Matys, dated 1495, shows a girl making Pillow lace, and later, in 1581, an old engraving shows another girl busy with her pillow and bobbins.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

Military Mass was performed about an hour after, at the church of ST. REMY, whither I strolled quietly, to witness the devotion of the congregation previous to the entry of the soldiers; and I will not dissemble being much struck and gratified by what I saw.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

A Gun of about seven foot Barrel, and so heavy that strong Men could not steadily hold it out with both hands; there were several Testimonies that he made nothing of taking up such a Gun behind the Lock, with one hand, and holding it out like a Pistol at arm's end."
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

The country remained unsettled so long, partly because of its inaccessibility from the East, and partly because it was disputed territory between the United States and Great Britain.
— from A Report on Washington Territory by William Henry Ruffner

All the terrible surroundings made me sad and gloomy, but did not take from me my determination to live.
— from Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons by William W. Day

The road was straight and generally bordered with lofty trees forming a fine avenue.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

“It all seems a great bother, and not to matter much,” she said, at the close of the lesson.
— from Just a Girl by Charles Garvice