Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly, and I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten’s coach was ready for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry discourse in the way, and most upon our last night’s revells; there come we were very merry, and a good plain venison dinner.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

What a man under special conditions may say he feels or thinks adds a constituent phase to his natural history; and were these reports exact and extended enough, it would become possible to enumerate the precise sensations and ideas which accompany every state of body and every social situation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Could I have depended, indeed, upon Jupiter’s aid, I would have had no hesitation in attempting to get the lunatic home by force; but I was too well assured of the old negro’s disposition, to hope that he would assist me, under any circumstances, in a personal contest with his master.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

haud cunctātus est Germānicus, quamquam fingī ea intellegeret , Ta. 2, 26, Germanicus did not delay, though he was aware this was all made up .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This was all that could be done at that period, and the Church accomplished it, by taking the high hand; and with as much unselfishness as energy and courage, she regulated society, which had been abandoned by the civil power from sheer impotence and want of administrative capability.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Some authors look at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and for separating those which are most unlike; or as an artificial method of enunciating, as briefly as possible, general propositions—that is, by one sentence to give the characters common, for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then, by adding a single sentence, a full description is given of each kind of dog.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It was a most unlucky day for Mr. Donaldson to see her on.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

This is certainly only an education of the body; but Rousseau is not the only man who has indirectly said that merely the person of a young woman, without any mind, unless animal spirits come under that description, is very pleasing.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

In the time of William and Mary, under Dutch influence, the seats and backs were broadened, colored inlay introduced, and the "cabriole" legs commonly employed, suggesting the forms later adopted in the Chippendale period.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 05, May 1900 Chippendale Chairs by Various

This was a most unfortunate occurrence for the hotel people, and I fancied I knew then why Eagan had been so anxious to get the passengers, including myself, ashore; and why he had kept the Coreans apart when on board.
— from In the Yellow Sea by Henry Frith

(5) It can be shown, at least as a very common rule, that those eggs which are most unsymmetrical, or most tapered off posteriorly, are also eggs of a large size relatively to the parent bird.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The union which he accepted was a moral union, which makes Christ simply God and man, instead of the God-man.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

He too was in evil plight, with a spear wound in the breast, and a sword-cut on the arm, when Agesipolis, the Spartan king, came to the rescue from the other wing, and most unexpectedly saved the lives of both.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

A wilder and more untamed spot could hardly be found even in Cornwall than Dozmare Pool and the [ xii ] barren moors surrounding it.
— from North Cornwall Fairies and Legends by Enys Tregarthen

Maud, on the other hand,— Wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

Observe a cat, for instance, that has played with a mouse until she has killed it.
— from The Domestic Cat by Gordon Stables