He wasted the sunshine, as people said, in wandering through the woods and fields and along the banks of streams.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A-blenden , v. to blind, MD; ablent , pr. s. , S; pl. , S; ablende , pt. s. , MD; ablend , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

He told me, that the French were quite astonished at his figure and manner, and at his dress, which he obstinately continued exactly as in London;—his brown clothes, black stockings, and plain shirt.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

pl. , S; abouhte , pt. s. , S; aboughte , G; abought , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Karan was deficient neither in courage nor conduct; of both he had given a decided proof, when, to relieve the pecuniary difficulties of his father, with a rapidity unparalleled, he passed through the midst of his foes, surprised and plundered Surat, and carried off a booty which was the means of protracting the evil days of his country.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Again, some hostages were by his order taken from the school, and privately sent off; upon notice of which he immediately rose from table, pursued them with the cavalry, as if they had run away, and coming up with them, brought them back in fetters; proceeding to an extravagant pitch of ostentation likewise in this military comedy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Now the charms of such a proceeding suddenly occurred to him.
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

whose attentive, scrupulous, sonorous and powerful style presented, in its descriptive parts especially, reflections, hints and nuances bearing an affinity with the style of de Goncourt .
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

What more could the utmost ambition of man require than the king of Sweden now received, to see a prince, so lately his equal and inveterate enemy, come to solicite favour of him in his camp, almost at his feet; but whatever were his sentiments on this occasion he concealed them, and tho' he could not but despise such an act of meanness, he treated him with the utmost politeness, tho' without making any abatement of the demands he had exacted from him.
— from The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes. by Eliza Fowler Haywood

In the early spring, when the earth painfully breathed away the frost that choked it, with her child for mourner, and herself for sexton and priest, she buried Antoine with maimed rites: but hers were the prayers of the poor, and of the pure in heart; and she did not fret because, in the hour that her comrade was put away into the dark, the world was laughing at the thought of coming summer.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

When the used copies have done postal duty they may be looked upon as postage stamps, but collectors should avoid purchasing specimens which served for theatre, railway, and the various other uses.
— from Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

Squibs and pasquinades such as Scandalum Magnatum, or Potapski’s case; A Satire against Polish Oppression (1682), and the versified Last Will and Testament of Anthony, King of Poland abounded.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

He wore his round hat so far on the back of his head that it was a marvel how it managed to hang there, and smoked a pipe so black that the most powerful imagination could hardly conceive of its ever having been white, and so short that it seemed all head and no stem.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne