By coach to the Pay-house, and so to work again, and then to dinner, and to it again, and so in the evening to the yard, and supper and bed. 29th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It would be ruin; the Achaeans will not go on fighting when they see the ships being drawn into the water, but will cease attacking and keep turning their eyes towards them; your counsel, therefore, sir captain, would be our destruction.
— from The Iliad by Homer

You have known our views so long and so well that we feel it almost necessary to explain this to you.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

They thought that such as looked at the fire holding a bit of larkspur before their face would be troubled by no malady of the eyes throughout the year.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“Why, Friday,” says I, “do you think they are going to eat them, then?” “Yes,” says Friday, “they will eat them.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

It did seem that every time the young tendrils of my affection became attached, they were rudely broken by some unnatural outside power; and I was beginning to look away to heaven for the rest denied me on earth.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

That eye that told you so look’d but asquint.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Listen," said the fish, "I see very well that I am fated to fall into your hands, take me home and cut me into six pieces; give your wife two of them to eat, two to your horse and bury two of them in the ground, then they will bring you a blessing."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

It must be remembered that contemporary witnesses attest these singular circumstances in the evidence taken two years after his death, for the beatification of Joseph.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

In the year 1803, for a mere song, he had sold the French colony of Louisiana (which was in great danger of being captured by the English) to the young American Republic.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

But in order to explain this to you, I must first make you acquainted with the various motions of the planets.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

They expressed to the young man his infinite distance from all that he valued.
— from Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane

Only two weeks before there had been a similar celebration, but there is a constant string of this expensive tomfoolery the year round in Bahia.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

The king has disappeared and no one has yet taken his place; Aigyptios is perhaps scarcely prepared to expect that the young Telemachos would summon the assembly.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

(3) Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431, summoned by the Emperor Theodosius the younger, against the Nestorian heresy.
— from The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

Yet Blake's peculiar actions and the fact that the foot of the dam had been chosen for the experiment troubled the young fellow vastly.
— from Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns; Or, Sinking the German U-Boats by Halsey Davidson

This branch of “the profession” is confined solely to the summer; the hands in winter usually taking to the sale of song-books, it being impossible to exhibit “the three yards” in wet or foggy weather.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

A rumour got abroad to the effect that the youthful diplomatist would be also a poet, and moreover, that he gave more time to religious exercises than was good for a young man who had the world before him.
— from The Marquis D'Argenson: A Study in Criticism Being the Stanhope Essay: Oxford, 1893 by Arthur Ogle