There is, however, in the British Museum a MS. believed to be in Blondeau’s hand, in which he claims his process, ‘as a new invention, to make a handsome coyne, than can be found in all the world besides, viz., that shall not only be stamped on both flat sides, but shall even be marked with letters on the thickness of the brim.’
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Concrètement, lorsque je fais de la veille, je peste dès que je rencontre des sites norvégiens ou brésiliens sans un minimum d'anglais.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, talking again, there recurred the strange, remote reality which carried everything before it.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Savages sometimes express their satisfaction not only by smiling, but by gestures derived from the pleasure of eating.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

So no one becomes sensitive till his imagination is aroused and begins to carry him outside himself.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It cost me $2 to have the spring mended and $5 to send a man back to Silver Creek with the rig, to say nothing of being scared within an inch of my life.”
— from Thirty Years on the Frontier by Robert McReynolds

Nor, as far as could be told, was there any side niche, or blind shaft, in which they could be hiding.
— from Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes by Victor Appleton

Panna Aleksandra in like manner shut herself in at Vodokty, seeing no one but servants and her guardians of Lauda.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

One jolly old fellow, who had probably been largely patronising the “tents” on the market stance throughout the day, would insist upon it that he saw, not one big spot on the sun, but two or more—and perhaps he did.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

The Spirit not only bestows spiritual gifts, but bestows them discreetly, according as He thinks best.
— from The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans