At the office all the morning; dined at home, and in the afternoon Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I went to Tower Hill to meet with a man, and so back all three to my house, and there I signed a bond to Mr. Battersby, a friend of Mr. Moore’s, who lends me L50, the first money that ever I borrowed upon bond for my own occasion, and so I took them to the Mitre and a Portugal millon with me; there sat and discoursed in matters of religion till night with great pleasure, and so parted, and I home, calling at Sir W. Batten’s, where his son and his wife were, who had yesterday been at the play where we were, and it was good sport to hear how she talked of it with admiration like a fool.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When one of the other elements is fastened upon by fire, and is cut by the sharpness of its angles and sides, it coalesces with the fire, and then ceases to be cut by them any longer.
— from Timaeus by Plato

"Sentiment" was used by French writers, Ribot, Binet, and others, as a general term for the entire field of affective life.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

When he felt relieved, he came back to take her up, but failed to find anywhere any trace of Ying Lien.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

We do not know for certain in how far his genius was genuine in Egypt—where forty centuries looked down upon his grandeur—for his great exploits there are all told us by Frenchmen.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

An animal with such a reputation no doubt excited a good deal of attention, and Alexander was one day watching it in the Hippodrome or Circus, when it struck him that the horse was rendered ungovernable by fear of its own shadow.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

For Thou, Thou altogether (for who else calls us back from the death of all errors, save the Life which cannot die, and the Wisdom which needing no light enlightens the minds that need it, whereby the universe is directed, down to the whirling leaves of trees?)—Thou madest provision for my obstinacy
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

see marks of the six Smyrnas that have existed here and been burned up by fire or knocked down by earthquakes.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

" The rick was unhaled by full daylight; the men then took their places, the women mounted, and the work began.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

5, 8, 1, an illness from which I had already recovered, naturally, since it was unaccompanied by fever .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

When the last libation had been poured, they set the pyre alight, and in time it burned up bravely, for the oil and the wine, and the breath of the north wind blowing bleak across the mountain, made the flame burn bright and clear; and the pyre of Paris shone like a flaming star against the dull grey sky and over the hills and plain lying silent beneath their pall of snow.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

The fears of the whole country at the progress of the French arms had been so strong, that peace was hailed with enthusiasm; and the public joy, on that occasion, would have been unalloyed but for the extravagant rewards granted to Godoy for concluding it.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

"Well," replied Milos, "the best thing would be to set them up in life; let us buy for them a share of some brig, and they, with their earnings, may in a few years buy up the whole ship and trade for themselves."
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

In the remains of the small building used as a receptacle for the coffins previous to interment, were several bodies, heaped one upon another, and still burning, the trestles which had once supported the coffins serving as fuel; and further off were bodies still unscathed by fire, but frozen hard by the severity of the weather.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

We must give all our attention to the revolt of the Arab tribes, who, now thoroughly inflamed by the news of the capitulation of El Obeid, and stirred up by fanatical proclamations, were ready to proceed to all extremities.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

We found her sitting up; beautiful from expiation, beautiful in hope.
— from The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

Take your places, then, again, I beg of you, and let us be friends, for we are deserving of your kindness."
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

It is natural that a young girl about to be laid out alive in a tomb should be tormented with fearful imaginings; but then that young girl cherishes an all-pervading love for a living husband, whom she hopes to rejoin by means of her entombment: she expects that the gates of the mausoleum will open to admit her to life, not death, and she is urged by fear of a hateful second marriage; therefore it is unlikely—no matter what gloomy, blood-stained phantoms she may see—that she should shriek out her fears with such appalling clamor as would arouse any well-organized household, and thus defeat her prospects of success.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

I knew I could never make it up, by following the sea; and I had begun to despair of ever doing so, until I got aboard of a ship in Cape Town bound for Melbourne.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

Always, so long as they think to get any place for higher notions about the ceremonies, they speak not so meanly of them as of things indifferent; but when all their forces of arguments and answers are spent in vain, then are our ears filled with uncouth outcries and declamations, which tend to make themselves appear blameless for receiving, and us blameworthy for refusing matters of rite and indifferency.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie