On September 6th, proclamation ordered “that as the markets are burned down, markets be held in Bishopsgate Street, Tower Hill, Smithfield, and Leadenhall Street” (“Calendar of State Papers,” 1666-67, pp.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At Delphi, seeing a large square column of white marble, on which a golden statue of Perseus was to have been placed, he ordered his own to be placed there, as the vanquished ought to give place to the victors.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The bride should, of course, not wear satin and lace; she could wear organdie (let us hope the nine o'clock wedding is in summer!), or she could wear very simple white crêpe de chine.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

'In the exact sciences, at least,' says Cuvier, 'it is the patience of a sound intellect, when invincible, which truly constitutes genius.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

FLUE FAKERS, chimney sweeps; also low sporting characters, who are so termed from their chiefly betting on the Great Sweeps .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

We may therefore picture her in short, striped, pleated skirt, tight at the waist but flowing out wide at the bottom over white stockings, a little silken cape covering her queenly young bosom, without concealing its fine lines, her head surmounted by a rose-trimmed bonnet with black ribbons, clasping the arm of her “friend” with sparkling eyes and cheeks as rosy as her headdress.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

She needed a safety-valve, a city of refuge, a heart and mind with whom there would be no reservations, and Providence provided her with a kind of confessor from whom she obtained all the understanding and sympathy and love she craved for.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

I am a tiger—I know it; but you have often seen a little spaniel caressed by the tiger, whose fangs are turned against every other living thing.
— from Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat

SNAIL I saw a little snail Come down the garden walk.
— from Poems By a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling

“Some of the snowflakes are like stars,” Connie said softly, watching them pelt against the window.
— from The Brownie Scouts at Snow Valley by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Yet he stood up so straight and looked so cool that when he came back to take post on the right the men there did not know he had been hit at all.
— from The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe by William Charles Henry Wood

The French monarchy in the nature of things, in the sixteenth century, could not be one-half Catholic and one-half Protestant, any more than the United States, as Lincoln said, could exist one-half slave and one-half free.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson