76 Let, then, no lodge which values its own usefulness, or the character of our institution, admit any candidate to a higher degree, until he has made suitable proficiency in the preceding one, to be always tested by a strict examination in open lodge.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Thence by water to Blackfriars, and so to Paul’s churchyard and bespoke severall books, and so home and there dined, my man William giving me a lobster sent him by my old maid Sarah.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So I swore tonight, that if she didn’t go, I’d go to bed at six.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Almost the same civilities were exchanged between him and the student, who listening to Don Quixote, took him to be a sensible, clear-headed person.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Finally he walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and in running his eye up and down the wall.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The reply would be— "Farmer Everdene's niece; took on Weatherbury Upper Farm; turned away the baily, and swears she'll do everything herself.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Mr. Crummles, on the other hand, assumed the look and gait of a hardened despot; but they both attracted some notice from many of the passers-by, and when they heard a whisper of ‘Mr. and Mrs Crummles!’ or saw a little boy run back to stare them in the face, the severe expression of their countenances relaxed, for they felt it was popularity.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

However, the storm was so violent that I saw, what is not often seen, the master, the boatswain, and some others more sensible than the rest, at their prayers, and expecting every moment when the ship would go to the bottom.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

C H A P. XVIII W HEN Susannah told the corporal the misadventure of the sash, with all the circumstances which attended the murder of me,—(as she called it,)—the blood forsook his cheeks,—all accessaries in murder being principals,— Trim ’s conscience told him he was as much to blame as Susannah, —and if the doctrine had been true, my uncle Toby 68 had as much of the bloodshed to answer for to heaven, as either of ’em;—so that neither reason or instinct, separate or together, could possibly have guided Susannah ’s steps to so proper an asylum.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But it is necessary also to confess that the power of nature is so ample and vast, and these principles so simple and general, that I have hardly observed a single particular effect which I cannot at once recognize as capable of being deduced in man different modes from the principles, and that my greatest difficulty usually is to discover in which of these modes the effect is dependent upon them; for out of this difficulty cannot otherwise extricate myself than by again seeking certain experiments, which may be such that their result is not the same, if it is in the one of these modes at we must explain it, as it would be if it were to be explained in the other.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

And just then Jane Sands came up to call him to breakfast, and stood looking from the cot to her master's dusty coat, with such a look of delighted comprehension on her face, that the organist felt that no words were needed to prepare her for what was going to happen.
— from Zoe by Evelyn Whitaker

Arras, who understood the ways of the Vatican better than the legate, desired that, before any steps were taken, he might be favoured with a copy of these enlarged powers.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

I may, however, assure Protestant readers in general, whose esteem for Luther is great and who may be disagreeably affected by certain passages in this book which are new to them, that the idea of offending them by a single word was very far from my intention.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Turkmenistan Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1925.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They behaved as such assemblages usually did, jeering and hooting, and calling me by every epithet of reproach the language afforded,—wanting to know why I came down there to burn their property and murder them and their children as well as free their negroes.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

You were turned out, and why?—that's the bone and sinew of the matter.
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever

It is noticed, apparently, as a new building, in the will of Thomas Beamond, Salter, 1451, who devised to "Henry Bell and Robert Bassett, wardens of the fraternity and gild of the Salters, of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Church of All Saints, of Bread Street, London, and to the brothers and sisters of the same fraternity and gild, and their successors for ever, the land and ground where there was then lately erected a hall called Salters' Hall, and six mansions by him then newly erected upon the same ground, in Bread Street, in the parish of All Saints."
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

"I did not expect him to be a—" She hesitated at the harsh word.
— from The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen