It was in this theater that Shakespeare probably found employment when he first came to the city.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The world's wealth is its original men; by 25 these and their works it is a world and not a waste; the memory and record of what Men it loves—this is the sum of its strength, its sacred "property for ever," whereby it upholds itself and steers forward, better or worse, through the yet undiscovered deep of Time.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The first Land they made, was the Island of Providence , then newly settled; here they staid some Time, and having considered that when they should go to New-England , the Greatness of their Ship, would cause much Enquiry about them; and possibly some People from England , who had heard the Story of a Ship’s being run away with from the Groine , might suspect them to be the People; they therefore took a Resolution of disposing of their Ship at Providence : Upon which, Avery pretending that the Ship being fitted out upon the privateering Account, and having had no Success, he had received Orders from the Owners, to dispose of her to the best Advantage, he soon met with a Purchaser, and immediately bought a sloop.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Lucy, with a demure and settled air, seemed determined to make no contribution to the comfort of the others, and would not say a word; and almost every thing that WAS said, proceeded from Elinor, who was obliged to volunteer all the information about her mother's health, their coming to town, &c. which Edward ought to have inquired about, but never did.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

view'd the aerial tracks, and drew A sure presage from every wing that flew.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

It is certain that they do not confound these bits of white of egg with other white bodies, small pebbles for example, which are at the bottom of the water.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Thus Aelfric abbot of Cerne, who wrote during the closing years of the tenth century, speaks as follows of St Paul: ‘Fifteen epistles wrote this one Apostle to the nations by him converted unto the faith: which are large books in the Bible and make much for our amendment, if we follow his doctrine that was teacher of the Gentiles’.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In the House of the Surgeon (VI.1,9–10) surgical instruments were found, including probes, catheters, gynaecological forceps, pliers for pulling teeth, and little spoons, perhaps for extracting wax from the ears.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

“Students preparing for examinations will hail it as a perfect godsend for its conciseness.”— Athenæum.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

There are some persons, for example, who care no more for the sting of a bee than for the prick of a needle, and there are those whom a single bee-sting will bring almost to the gates of death.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

p. 134: "The little rivulet, called, with that singular pertinacity for error which I have so often noticed here, `the creek.'" 1865.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

It was not surprising, then, that the heavy breathing of his companion should have the effect it had, and that, just when he was in the midst of pleasant thoughts of the possibility of escape, he should suddenly pass from extreme wakefulness into deep sleep, in which he saw the red cliffs of Devon again, with the sparkling sea, and listened to the soft murmur of the falls low down in the combe.
— from Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by George Manville Fenn

"I should say, Jean, that the best disguises would be those of fairly well-to-do townspeople; something like those we wore into Nantes, but rather less formal--the sort of thing that ordinary tradesmen, without any strong political feeling either way, would wear.
— from No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty