Not long after Colonel Shute had assumed the government of Massachusetts Bay—now nearly a hundred and twenty years ago—a young lady of rank and fortune arrived from England to claim his protection as her guardian.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

These all may be reduced to these few heads; for either the citizens have adhered, in aid or arms, to such as have warred upon the prince, or they have made tumult, and broken the common peace at home; or they have misbehaved themselves in point of government and justice; or finally, and to speak the plain truth, the princes have taken hold of small matters, and coined good sums of money out of them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Till passion all impatient grew: He wrote, and hinted for excuse, 'Twas, 'cause “he'd nothing else to do.”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Fuel, except to cook his Food, is then unnecessary; the sun is his fire, and many of the fruits are sufficiently cooked by its rays; while Food generally is more various, and more easily obtained, and Clothing and Shelter are wholly or half unnecessary.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"For example, then," continued Holgrave: "a dead man, if he happens to have made a will, disposes of wealth no longer his own; or, if he die intestate, it is distributed in accordance with the notions of men much longer dead than he.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

How often, too, had her father expressed the comfort he derived from believing, that they should meet in another world!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Money was handed him, and for each twelve cents he singled out a man and put him in the other line.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

[ 143 ] The site being finally selected, you must proceed to choose a day for erecting the central house-post, by consulting first the schedule of lucky and unlucky months, and next the schedule of lucky and unlucky days of the week.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Although government was strong and flourished exceedingly, the court had drawn far less advantage than one would imagine from this great source of power.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The Homeric "naïveté" can be comprehended only as the complete triumph of the Apollonian illusion: it is the same kind of illusion as Nature so frequently employs to compass her ends.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When steamers began to ascend the Parana River, he chained logs together and obstructed navigation, and when foreigners entered the country he drove them out.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

The Emperor, having expressed himself as we have just heard, picked up some papers from the desk, threw a severe glance at the young secretary, and left him in such a state of despair that, when some one else fortunately entered the cabinet, he was on the point of committing suicide with a long paper-cutter he held in his hand.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

At this moment an ill-looking fellow, who seemed to have some acquaintance with the family, entered the cottage: he fixed his eyes keenly upon Bertram; and, when the latter rose to depart, offered himself as a guide to Machynleth.
— from Walladmor, Vol. 2 (of 2) "Freely Translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott." And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. by Willibald Alexis

Not that we are disposed to allow that this is an international duty , unless it be an international duty also to free China from all the conditions we have forced upon her: unless we are ready, for example, to cede Hongkong, to let the Chinese close their ports if they feel inclined, to give up our missionaries to the tender mercies of Chinese fanaticism, or forbid them to set foot within the Celestial Empire.
— from A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Charles Reginald Haines

She enjoys her own fireside with an almost Pecksniffian relish, and she profoundly observes, as she sits beside her hearth:— Like forest trees men rise and grow: Good timber some will prove, Others decayed as fuel piled, Prepared are for that stove That burns for ever, Tophet called, Heated by jealous heat, Adapted to destroy all chaff, And leaves unscorched the wheat.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

A short time since, a young man living in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., whose name we shall call George, took to drinking rather more than usual, and some of his friends endeavored to cure him.
— from The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

She wrapped her old shawl round little Roy, and forgetting even to close her cellar door, went out.
— from A London Baby: The Story of King Roy by L. T. Meade

[Pg 327] temper and defective education, was piqued at his distant manner, and returned to his house in the country without making any farther effort to cultivate his friendship.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith