The enemy having withdrawn the bulk of his force from the Shenandoah Valley and sent it south, or replaced troops sent from Richmond, and desiring to reinforce Sherman, if practicable, whose cavalry was greatly inferior in numbers to that of the enemy, I determined to make a move from the Shenandoah, which, if successful.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Tomorrow I shall pay the Duchess de Grano a visit, and since it seems to put you out, shall not return again to Albano.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I up about business, and, opening the door, there was Bagwell’s wife, with whom I talked afterwards, and she had the confidence to say she came with a hope to be time enough to be my Valentine, and so indeed she did, but my oath preserved me from loosing any time with her,
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Astarte , Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Beguil’d by fair Idolatresses, fell To Idols foul.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

'Tis not worth the reading, I yield it, I desire thee not to lose time in perusing so vain a subject, I should be peradventure loath myself to read him or thee so writing; 'tis not operae, pretium .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

BUTTARELLI: ¿Que os sirva vianda alguna Shall I serve you something while queréis mientras?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

With these in troop Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians called Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on th' offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Vaughan turned to Valentia and said: "I shouldn't if I were you."
— from The Limit by Ada Leverson

‘One learns one’s faults as one grows older, you know,’ continued Violet, ‘and she is so very kind.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And look there ... over there the cheer rings out again ... the signals for assault sound, and thousands of voices are shouting it simultaneously ...
— from The Human Slaughter-House: Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come by Wilhelm Lamszus

His lack of training and limited powers of expression did not indeed permit him any distinct reasoning on the matter, but the feeling was there—a dull resentment which found its only vent and satisfaction in stolid rudeness to his stepmother and the persecution of Nance and Bernel whenever occasion offered.
— from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

The cock or the robin redbreast warns her in vain, and she is swallowed.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

Two summers ago, looking from Verona at sunset, I saw the mountains beyond the Lago di Garda of a strange blue, vivid and rich like the bloom of a damson.
— from The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872 by John Ruskin

I get very angry and vexed, and sometimes I say nothing, but sometimes I get out of all patience and say things I ought not.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner