And thus you have seen how men like me should be considered by the State, and how the science of fencing is more important than all the other useless sciences, such as dancing, music, ... DANCING MASTER:
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

Then, and then only, under such a roof, I might perhaps be as happy at Combe as I have been at Barton."
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

We had some food, and then all three of us started.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He then perceived that a thorn of uncommon size had penetrated the ball of the foot, and was the occasion of the swelling and lameness which he had observed.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

Those limitations were certainly formidable; and the chief matter of surprise now is, that the Whigs should have suffered the Regent to accept the office under such conditions.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

He then perceived [110] that a thorn of uncommon size had penetrated the ball of the foot, and was the occasion of the swelling and the lameness which he had observed.
— from Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits by Thomas Bingley

A few clever ones, at the cost of enormously expensive machinery, are sent to the universities, where they learn how to teach others the important things whereby they achieved their own unimportant success.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

She was at the bottom of her classes too, being unable to learn in this atmosphere of displeasure, and the governess’s strictures had in them a touch of unusual severity.
— from Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

A resolution was introduced into the Legislature, directing the release of the Negroes, and declaring "That the selling and enslaving the human species is a direct violation of the natural rights alike vested in all men by their Creator, and utterly inconsistent with the avowed principles on which this, and the other United States, have carried their struggle for liberty even to the last appeal."
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I was with the other girl mostly, and we would go over together and three of us sit together while we eat, and I would walk the girls home, something like that.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission