At night my wife to read to me, and then to supper, where Pelling comes to see and sup with us, and I find that he is assisting my wife in getting a licence to our young people to be married this Lent, which is resolved shall be done upon Friday next, my great day, or feast, for my being cut of the stone.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When he recovered from his sickness he came up to Seoul, searched out the house indicated, and made careful inquiry as to the name, finding that it was no other than Pak Oo.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

and then, without waiting for any answer, he disengaged me from Lord Merton; and, handing me to Lady Louisa, “Let me,” added he, “take equal care of both my sisters;” and then, desiring her, to take hold of one arm, and begging me to make use of the other, we reached the house in a moment.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms, and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In early periods, however, unexplored lands and seas existed only in the human imagination, and men appear to have included them within the laws of analogy as slowly as their descendants so included the planets.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Of course the fact that he is accorded marks of great deference, and approached in the manner as if he were a supreme despot, does not mean that perfect good fellowship and sociability do not reign in his personal relations with his companions and vassals.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

3 AVOC: 'Tis true, He is a man of great estate, now left.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

To this message he replied, with an air of consequence and reserve, that, though music was not the art he professed, he should be always complaisant enough to entertain the ladies to the utmost of his power, when their commands were signified to him in a manner suited to his character; but that he would never put himself on the footing of an itinerate harper, whose music is tolerated through the medium of a board partition.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I would give half my life to have it again, my beloved Toto; and it depends only upon you—if you wished it, we could easily recover the happiness of those days.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

They planted Trees over their Graves, adorn’d them with Ostrich Feathers, and met there at certain times, howling in a most barbarous manner, and performing many lewd and hellish Ceremonies.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

Not that she agreed with Margaret as to her unkindness in the affair of the picture, for her strict sense of what was right and sincere told her, in a moment, that she could not have acted otherwise; but it was impossible to hear so much said against a perfect stranger, without thinking that there must be some foundation for it, especially as Amy was accustomed to be very particular herself in everything she said, and had not yet learned to suspect her cousins of exaggeration.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

On a July night in 1726 a man and his wife fled from their home in Austrian Moravia toward [Pg 133] the mountains on the border of Saxony for conscience' sake.
— from Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West by Archer Butler Hulbert

And if for some clairvoyant eyes God has written each man's destiny over his whole outward and visible form, if a man's body is the record of his fate, why should not the hand in a manner epitomize the body? —since the hand represents the deed of man, and by his deeds he is known.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

; absence of British roots in the English language, 278 and note g ; constitution of the Witenagemot, 279, 374-379; administration of justice, and divisions of the land for the purpose, 280; hundreds and their probable origin, 280, 281, 379-381; the tything-man and alderman, 282, and 283 note u ; the county court and its jurisdiction, 282; contemporary report of a suit adjudicated in the reign of Canute, 283, 284 and note y ; trial by jury and its antecedents, 285-288; introduction of the law of frank-pledge, 289, 290; turbulence of the Anglo-Saxons, 290; progress of the system of frank-pledges, 291; responsibilities and uses of the tythings, 292, 293 and notes ; probable existence of feudal tenures before the Conquest, 293-301, 408-410; observations on the change of the heptarchy into a monarchy, 352-356; consolidation of the monarchy, 356-358; condition, of the eorls and ceorls further elucidated, 358-371; proportion of British natives under the Anglo-Saxon rule, 371-374; judicial functions of the Anglo-Saxon kings, 381; analogy between the French and Anglo-Saxon monarchies, 383; peculiar jurisdiction of the king's court, 384-386.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

Please Mademoiselle, tell him I absolutely must speak to him!"
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

"The Harvester," is a man of the woods and fields, and if the book had nothing in it but the splendid figure of this man it would be notable.
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

His very “hatred against the modern ( masonic and infidel ) direction of science” shows that he is a man of sound and clear judgment; and his opinion that “the criminal law” should be applied against the atheists and the corruptors of youth recommends him to us as a man of order and a true friend of civil society; for nothing is more necessary for the preservation of order and the peace of society than the enforcement of law.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

The king talked in turn of his undoubted legal title to the ancient kingdom of Lysimachus conquered by his ancestor Seleucus, explained that he was employed not in making territorial acquisitions but only in preserving the integrity of his hereditary dominions, and declined the intervention of the Romans in his disputes with the cities subject to him in Asia Minor.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen