General Fox, too, was soon expected; and during his absence, and under existing circumstances, he did not feel justified in sending away such a detachment.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

I saw men working in the fields for six shillings, and seven shillings, a week, and women for sixpence, and sevenpence, a day, out of which they boarded themselves.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

We struck a stream and darted into it.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

To go in a carriage entails spending four or five livres a day, and all for nothing; it is true the people say all kinds of civil things, but there it ends, as they appoint me to come on such and such a day, when I play, and hear them exclaim, "Oh! c'est un prodige, c'est inconcevable, c'est etonnant!"
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The honorable young woman who has made up her mind to marry in spite of her parents' disapproval, announces to them, if she can, that on such and such a day her wedding will take place.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Salipdi ang sugà arun dì muuylap ang síga, Cover the lamp so that its light won’t flicker.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nothing disturbed the charm of the new league in those early days; for Christie was thoroughly simple and sincere, and did her womanly work with no thought of reward or love or admiration.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

A cool breeze now came from the shore, and Emily let down the glass; but the air, which was refreshing to health, was as chilling to sickness, and St. Aubert desired, that the window might be drawn up.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In the case of the dog bite we have a more or less extensive break in the skin and sometimes a deep wound in the flesh, through which the poison of hydrophobia, which is a living virus or animal poison, may be introduced, to be taken up slowly by the nerves themselves, reaching the central nervous system in about forty days.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Wilt thou walk fellow, I never knew a Rogue, hang arse-ward so, And such a desperate knave too.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher

If this had been said pleasantly, well and good; but the guests looked in vain into their hostess's face for the smile that ought to have accompanied so strange a speech and disarmed it.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

He resigned that office in the summer preceding 18th Brumaire; and Buonaparte, finding him at variance with the Directory, readily passed over some personal grounds of complaint which he had against him, and enlisted in his service a supple and dexterous politician, and an experienced minister; fond, it is said, of pleasure, not insensible to views of self-interest, nor too closely fettered by principle, but perhaps unequalled in ingenuity.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

The travelling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, of 'Amstead 'Eath.
— from The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce

About the middle of June last, the sudden and unexpected irruption of the rebel army under General Lee into the Shenandoah Valley, surprised and surrounded a division of our army, commanded by Major-General R. H. Milroy, and compelled the evacuation of that post, in a manner and under circumstances which have elicited the severest criticism and censure of the public press.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

Money had given him nothing, nothing but the mere feeling of brute power: with his three hundred thousand pounds he had felt himself to be no more palpably near to the goal of his ambition than when he had chipped stones for three shillings and sixpence a day.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Terrible—having to show nothing, having to smile at Sheila, at Dad, and Mother!
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

“Am I, then, such a stranger?” asked David in a peculiar tone, for the word sounded cold and disagreeable.
— from The Garret and the Garden; Or, Low Life High Up by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When Antinea gave little Kaine his dismissal, smiling as she always does, he stopped in front of her, mute, very pale.
— from Atlantida by Pierre Benoît