Then by water to White Hall, and there waited upon my Lord Sandwich; and joyed him, at his lodgings, of his safe coming home after all his danger, which he confesses to be very great.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was on a Friday evening, near the middle of September and just before dusk, that they reached the summit of a hill within a mile of the place they sought.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

On Tiber’s shores they land, secure of fate, Triumphant o’er the storms and Juno’s hate.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

and the petulancy of my father's humour, in putting a stop to it as he did, was a robbery of the Ontologic Treasury of such a jewel, as no coalition of great occasions and great men are ever likely to restore to it again.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The next morning was too bright a morning for sleep, and James Harthouse rose early, and sat in the pleasant bay window of his dressing-room, smoking the rare tobacco that had had so wholesome an influence on his young friend.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Round and round we swept—not with any uniform movement—but in dizzying swings and jerks, that sent us sometimes only a few hundred yards—sometimes nearly the complete circuit of the whirl.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

days ago Erysgwyddiad, n. a shouldering, a jutting out Erysi, n. amazement, wonder Es, n. separation; a shoot.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Footnote 12: (return) See Honda the Samurai, Boston, 1890; Nitobe's United States and Japan; The Japan Mail passim ; Dr. G.F. Verbeck's History of Protestant Missions in Japan, Yokohama, 1883; Dr. George Wm.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Have you got your thick boots on, and something warm under your cloak?" "I believe so," answered Jo absently.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It don't really seem reasonable that a sane man would get in such a jam, does it?
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

To me it seems that considerable skill and judgment are shown in the pains taken, at the very opening of the book, to prepare the mind of the reader for an incident which would have been intolerably painful, and must have prematurely ended the whole narrative interest, had the character of Cleonice been drawn otherwise than as we find it in this first portion of the book.
— from Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters An Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They were well supported by the defenders who lined the walls, and a hail of stones and javelins rattled down on the shields of Asius and his men, who were driven back with loss and compelled to retire out of range.
— from Stories from the Iliad by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

Your committee, therefore, under an impression that the aforesaid slaves would be delivered to the agent of the United States for Indian Affairs among the Cherokee Indians upon conditions more favorable to the United States than a full remuneration of their value to the petitioners, respectfully submit the following resolution: Resolved , That the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable, and that the President of the United States be authorized and requested to treat, by such commissioner as he shall appoint, for the delivery to the rightful owners of the slaves and their increase taken from William Scott, James Pettigrew, and John Pettigrew, on or about the 9th of June, 1794, by a party of the Cherokee nation of Indians, at or near the Muscle Shoals, on the river Tennessee, upon such equitable conditions as to him shall appear just and reasonable.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Budget: revenues : $28.4 billion expenditures: $28.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $6.1 billion (FY94/95) Industries: tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer Industrial production growth rate: 13.3% (1995 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

So saying, the merry cook threw a handful of silver money on the table, and began to sing a joyous drinking song.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

She becomes a famous music-hall star, and John Storm has left the monastery.
— from Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist by C. Fred (Charles Frederick) Kenyon