these premises, Mrs. Cole observed, that a character of this sort was ever a lawful prize; that the sin would be, not to make the best of our market of him; and that she thought such a girl as I only too good for him at any rate, and on any terms.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

The street was empty, and there was scarcely any one to be seen.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My supper was excellent, and my bed very comfortable.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

60 But as neither physicians nor generals nor orators can achieve any signal success without experience and practice, no matter how well they may understand the theory of their profession, so the rules for the discharge of duty are formulated, it is true, as I am doing now, but a matter of such importance requires experience also and practice.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A substantive which explains another substantive referring to the same thing is put in the same case.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Something of the same kind must have occurred on the intertropical mountains: no doubt before the Glacial period they were stocked with endemic Alpine forms; but these have almost everywhere largely yielded to the more dominant forms, generated in the larger areas and more efficient workshops of the north.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

[Pg 217] AGNOLO GADDI LIFE OF AGNOLO GADDI, PAINTER OF FLORENCE How honourable and profitable it is to be excellent in a noble art is manifestly seen in the talent and management of Taddeo Gaddi, who, having acquired very good means as well as fame with his industry and labours, left the affairs of his family so well arranged, when he passed to the other life, that Agnolo and Giovanni, his sons, were easily able to give a beginning to the very great riches and to the exaltation of the house of Gaddi, to-day very noble in Florence and in great repute throughout all Christendom.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The Troldtinderne, Romsdal From a photograph by S. J. Beckett, F.R.P.S. The troll women were said to have the power of changing themselves into Maras or nightmares, and of tormenting any one they pleased; but if the victim succeeded in stopping up the hole through which a Mara made her ingress into his room, she was entirely at his mercy, and he could even force her to wed him if he chose to do so.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

In the northern regions, where the polar direction is nearly perpendicular to the horizon, all horizontal motions of conductors will produce electricity; horizontal wheels, for example, made of metal; likewise all running streams will evolve a current of electricity which will circulate round them; and the air thus charged with electricity may be one of the causes of the Aurora Borealis.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

She was energetic and determined; she would take care of him for her own sake.
— from The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 1/2 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“You might have wished it, because it makes me as sad as you,” he said with emotion and deference.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

I cannot see children beaten without a heartache, and I continued to suffer for this small wretch even after he had avenged himself by eating a handful of peanut shells, which would be sure to disagree with him and make his mother more trouble.
— from An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

“ ‘ When that fratricidal struggle was ended and the soldiers who survived it returned to their desolated homes to find poverty and want at every door, Mr. Henry B. Plant, a Union man, who, notwithstanding his loyalty to the North, had been commissioned by President Davis, because of his honesty and integrity, to go at will everywhere throughout Dixie, was also true to the South.
— from The Life of Henry Bradley Plant Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company by G. Hutchinson (George Hutchinson) Smyth

White it was—white and terrible and stamped with evil and dissipation and fearful dreams.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

Some were eating and drinking.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

They could hear the rattle of the boom tackle blocks as the sail was eased across.
— from The Night-Born by Jack London

She will excuse anything, if you'll give her a chance to remember how many lumps you take and whether it's cream or lemon.
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Such examples are rare; but without doubt, there are still honorable exceptions—servants who love their masters, and who make part of the family as true children of the house, serving with ease and gentleness, because they are guided principally by affection, and bearing the faults of their masters, who, in return, are patient with them, until household affairs glide on with a smoothness which, though sometimes very imperfect, is, after all, a small evil.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various