[207] “Sixty years since.”— Ibid.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

—— I presume, said Yorick, smiling,—it must be owing to this,—(for let logicians say what they will, it is not to be accounted for sufficiently from the bare use of the ten predicaments)——That the famous Vincent Quirino, amongst the many other astonishing feats of his childhood, of which the Cardinal Bembo has given the world so exact a story,—should be able to paste up in the public schools at Rome, so early as in the eighth year of his age, no less than four thousand five hundred and fifty different theses, upon the most abstruse points of the most abstruse theology;—and to defend and 126 maintain them in such sort, as to cramp and dumbfound his opponents.——What is that, cried my father, to what is told us of Alphonsus Tostatus, who, almost in his nurse’s arms, learned all the sciences and liberal arts without being taught any one of them?——What shall we say of the great Piereskius?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

‘Do you remember,’ said Smike, in a low voice, and glancing fearfully round, ‘do you remember my telling you of the man who first took me to the school?’ ‘Yes, surely.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[ Ger. schweifen] swiforu == swipor swift (y) ‘ swift ,’ quick , Æ, AO.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In the scuffle, your son struck Sir George, and cut him over the eye.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

You will thus learn eventually to suit your style to the Author you are translating, while at the same time you render the passage closely and accurately.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

'I am glad to see you,' said John Rokesmith, in a cheerful tone of welcome.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“Yes,” she said, “you solace all sorrows.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

When a man wakes up in the morning, his drowsy face grotesquely surmounted by the folds of a silk handkerchief which falls over his left temple like a police cap, he is certainly a laughable object, and it is difficult to recognize in him the glorious spouse, celebrated in the strophes of Rousseau; but, nevertheless, there is a certain gleam of life to illume the stupidity of a countenance half dead—and if you artists wish to make fine sketches, you should travel on the stage-coach and, when the postilion wakes up the postmaster, just examine the physiognomies of the departmental clerks!
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

But truly, while this is not your study, you have no purpose for heaven, you see nothing but what is just before your eye, and almost toucheth it, and so you savour and mind only what you see.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

He could have told how seven gentlemen that were named Staupitz, Faenza, Saldagno, Pepe, Pinto, Joel, and Æsop had been sent to dwell and travel in Spain at the free charges of Prince Louis de Gonzague, with the sole purpose of finding a man and a child who so far had not been found, though it was now seventeen years since the hounds had been sent a-hunting.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

I'll send you some money for your pigs." XVI BAFFIN'S FIND Baffin came home one evening in a state of wild-eyed exaltation.
— from Sixpenny Pieces by A. Neil (Albert Neil) Lyons

[Pg 7] Ellen was really astonished at this account, as much as she was pleased with the spirit and grace with which it was delivered; and St. Aubyn said to her with an expressive smile, "You see, Ellen, our friend Ross had more reason than we were willing to allow him for certain prohibitions .
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

At first I said you shouldn’t be moved.
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln

"It has been several years since I saw you," he said, quite aimlessly.
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

One of those innovations, one of those movements in which the new ground of ages of future culture is first chalked out—a movement whose end is not yet, whose beginning we have scarce yet seen—was made in England, not very far from the time in which Sir Walter Raleigh, began first to convert the eclat of his rising fortunes at home, and the splendour of his heroic achievements abroad, and all those new means of influence which his great position gave him, to the advancement of those deeper, dearer ambitions, which the predominance of the nobler elements in his constitution made inevitable with him.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

Margarita Is she your Sister?
— from Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by John Fletcher