But here I saw his great window in his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial Hemispheres, so painted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to good purpose, done by his own hand.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This plan of education had answered very well for the Misses Willoughby, whose lives had been peaceful and secluded as modern lives rarely are, and who passed their days always in the same place, and in nobody's society but their own.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

He was surprisingly patient, and I never saw him treat her roughly in retaliation.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

On the fatal 15th of May, the Colonel told Queed merely that the Post desired his work as long as it showed such promise as it now showed.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

And may not the selectionist pertinently ask: “If natural selection is thus introduced as a factor, why halt midway between two hypotheses?
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Six persons are introduced, namely, Saul, Jonathan, David, Michel, Abner, and Achimelech.
— from Shadows of the Stage by William Winter