After many protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would After dinner my wife comes up to me and all friends again After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed After a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart Agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under) All ended in love All the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore All made much worse in their report among people than they are All the fleas came to him and not to me All divided that were bred so long at school together All may see how slippery places all courtiers stand in All things to be managed with faction All the innocent pleasure in the world All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Why had he stood looking at the river and preferred to confess?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sónya stood ready dressed in the middle of the room and, pressing the head of a pin till it hurt her dainty finger, was fixing on a last ribbon that squeaked as the pin went through it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and artillery horses broke down, and the information received of the movements of the French was never reliable.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

These I sat up nearly all the night to read, and put them carefully away, to be read and re-read again and again at my leisure.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

After this the supposed Phakir left the room, and passed through the courtyard of the palace.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

It is true it cannot institute a new inquiry concerning the fact, but it takes cognizance of it as it appears upon the record, and pronounces the law arising upon it.(3)
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The reasons and purposes thereof vary.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Many fire-ships were sent down from time to time, but Alexander had organized a systematic patrol of a few sentry-boats, armed with scythes and hooks, which rowed up and down in front of the rafts, and protected them against invasion.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

It was in these words: "Whereas, the great commercial interests of our city have nearly reached a point of general ruin—our merchants driven from a state of prosperity to that of unprecedented difficulty and bankruptcy—the business, activity and energy, which have heretofore made us the polar star of the new world, is daily sinking, and taking from us the fruits of years of industry—reducing the aged among us, who but yesterday were sufficiently in affluence, to a state of comparative want; and blighting the prospects, and blasting the hopes of the young throughout our once prosperous land: we deem it our duty to express to the country our situation and desires, while yet there is time to retrace error, and secure those rights and perpetuate those principles which were bequeathed us by our fathers, and which we are bound to make every honorable effort to maintain."
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

While they bore themselves peaceably and quietly they were ever ready to assert their rights, and people thought twice before they meddled with them.
— from Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland

The ash-trees on the ridges, The alders in the swamp, Put on their red and purple To join the autumn pomp.
— from Later Poems by Bliss Carman

However, the public according [Pg 10] to these papers an interest far beyond my expectation, I have decided to revise and publish them in book form.
— from The Real Jefferson Davis by Landon Knight

Captain Crutchely very willingly consented to receive Mark in his own vessel, the Rancocus, and promised "to make a man and an officer of him."
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

Each one knows everybody else, and if one member of the bar is assailed, the rest are prompt to defend him.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

So saying they turned to the right and prepared to scout round the rock and continue their way; but this did not suit their obstructor.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Almost in desperation she decided to retire, and putting the matter into her mind in such a way that she would be able to receive the greatest amount of aid while asleep, she fell asleep and slept soundly until morning.
— from In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty by Ralph Waldo Trine