Taking coach as I said before at the Temple, I to Charing Cross, and there went into Unthanke’s to have my shoes wiped, dirty with walking, and so to White Hall, where I visited the Vice-Chamberlain, who tells me, and so I find by others, that the business of putting out of some of the Privy-council is over, the King being at last advised to forbear it; for whereas he did design it to make room for some of the House of Commons that are against him, thereby to gratify them, it is believed that it will but so much the more fret the rest that are not provided for, and raise a new stock of enemies by them that are displeased, and so all they think is over: and it goes for a pretty saying of my Lord Anglesey’s up and down the Court, that he should lately say to one of them that are the great promoters of this putting him and others out of the Council, “Well,” says he, “and what are we to look for when we are outed?
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Their various bands and subtribes seem originally to have occupied the whole basin of Delaware river, together with all of New Jersey, extending north to the watershed of the Hudson and west and southwest to the ridge separating the waters of the Delaware and Susquehanna.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It is not too soon, however, to present a history of the Philippines, even though imperfectly written, to the Philippine people themselves; and if this book serves to direct young men and young women to a study of the history of their own island country, it will have fulfilled its purpose.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The height of the abacus is one seventh of the height of the capital.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Paris has never possessed, properly speaking, a regular Jewish quarter ; it is true that the Israelites settled down in the neighbourhood of the markets, and in certain narrow streets, which at some period or other took the name of Juiverie or Vieille Juiverie (Old Jewry ); but they were never distinct from the rest of the population; they only had a separate cemetery, at the bottom or rather on the slope of the hill of Sainte-Geneviève.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He seemed to have a fine close suit with knee-breeches such as that which was worn by the servants of the house, only that it was not blue, but of this absolute sable.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But the subject, or the historian of Justinian, exhaled his just indignation in the language of complaint and reproach; and Procopius has confidently affirmed, that in a reign of thirty-two years, each annual inroad of the Barbarians consumed two hundred thousand of the inhabitants of the Roman empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The residue left in trust to their executors, I have known some of them hardly (or never) performed; wherefore I wish men to make their own hands their executors, and their eyes their overseers, not forgetting the old proverb:— “Women be forgetfull, children be unkind, Executors be covetous, and take what they find.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And these feelings may well rise to anguish, if he is conscious that his system of accumulation was carried on in defiance of solemn admonitions; and if he is persuaded that the wealth he has amassed--as it were to shut out heaven from the hopes and prospects of his children--if it had been dedicated day by day, as God had prospered him, as a manifestation of his love, and a tribute of his gratitude to his Lord and King, might have been the means of feeding with the bread of life some of the hundreds of millions who lie in darkness, hopelessness, and sin, because the Son of Righteousness has not arisen on them with healing in his wings.
— from Christian Devotedness by Anthony Norris Groves

[Sidenote: 1840—Ladies in the House of Commons] Sir Charles Barry's design has the great advantage that it renders an increase in the size of the House of Commons possible and practicable without a complete reconstruction of all that part of the vast building which belongs to the representative chamber and its various offices.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

Autolycus threatens that the clown’s son ‘shall be flayed alive; then ‘nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp’s nest,’ &c. In Boccaccio’s story the villain Ambrogiuolo (Shakespeare’s Iachimo), after ‘being bounden to the stake and anointed with honey,’ was ‘to his exceeding torment not only slain but devoured of the flies and wasps and gadflies wherewith that country abounded’ (cf.
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Much is said of this House of Justice in the Books of Revelation.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

This stately minuet they kept up for some time, and appeared so much like a pair [Pg 41] of old-fashioned human dancers that when, on one occasion, number two varied the performance by a spring over the head of his partner, I was startled, as if an old gentleman had suddenly hopped over the head of the grand dame his vis-à-vis .
— from In Nesting Time by Olive Thorne Miller

Not so the Druid’s stone; there it stands on the hill of winds, as strong and as freshly new as the day, perhaps thirty centuries back, when it was first raised, by means which are a mystery.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

6–9 of the seven sons of the House of Saul, who were delivered over by David to the Gibeonites, who hung them on the mountain before the Lord.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

The following incident shows the ideas some of them have obtained.
— from Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 by Myron Eells

David had heard something of the history of the two from Elise Delaunay.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Tentative Chronological Synopsis of the History of Arabia and its Neighbours, from B.C. 500,000 (?) to A.D. 679.
— from The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel