So many balls he has had all day; but no opportunity of using them: he turns over now, execrating disloyal bandits; swears a prayer or two, and straight to sleep again.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The brimstone, too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench; and the bodies of the damned themselves exhale such a pestilential odour that, as saint Bonaventure says, one of them alone would suffice to infect the whole world.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

(8) Weatherly, Ulysses G. "The Racial Element in Social Assimilation," Publications of the American Sociological Society , V (1910), 57-76.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

and I sang a psalm or two and so I to sleep.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at Ludgate Hill made a final stop; so there I ‘lighted, and with a linke, it being about 10 o’clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and supped to bed. 16th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

he and I sang a psalm or two, and so parted, and I by water to the New Exchange, and there to Mrs. Pierces, where Knepp, and she, and W. Howe, and Mr. Pierce, and little Betty, over to Fox Hall, and there walked and supped with great pleasure.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fadom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two And sleeps again.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Fill the shells, and put on top a soft frosting.
— from Recipes Tried and True by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

But their chief object being Lord Edward's safety, after snapping a pistol or two at Sirr they hurried away.'
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at Ludgate Hill made a final stop; so there I 'lighted, and with a linke, it being about 10 o'clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and supped to bed. 16th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

"In that strange country where brute power seems to be throttling all the highest life of the people ... there yet seems to be no cessation in the production of truthful literary art ... for justice of perception, soundness and purity of taste, and skill of workmanship, we in England, with all our freedom, can offer no parallel."
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

This supposition is strengthened by the fact that small awls of bronze are occasionally found with them, and it is obvious that the end of a thong hardened in the fire, and pushed partially through the holes bored by an awl, could be readily seized by such a pair of tweezers and so dragged tight.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

The modest simplicity of Susan's appearance, and the artless good sense and propriety of the answers she gave to all the questions that were asked her, pleased the ladies at the Abbey, who were good judges of character and manners.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth