For let me tell you that since our Lord God did mould with his hands our first Father Adam, even until this day, never hath there been Christian, or Pagan, or Tartar, or Indian, or any man of any nation, who in his own person hath had so much knowledge and experience of the divers parts of the World and its Wonders as hath had this Messer Marco!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I dined with my Lord, and then with Mr. Shepley and Creed (who talked very high of France for a fine country) to the tavern, and then I home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So I will get Mr. Peters, who wants to see my little chapel, to assist Mr. Williams, under the notion of breakfasting with me next Thursday morning, since you won't have it sooner; and there will nobody else be wanting; and I will beg of Mr. Peters to keep it private, even from his own family, for a few days.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In severe compound fractures of the humerus occurring from force applied at the external side of the limb, the brachial vessels and nerves have been occasionally lacerated by the sharp jagged ends of the broken bone,--a circumstance which calls for immediate amputation of the member.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The landlady, the landlord, their daughter, and Maritornes, when they saw Don Quixote and Sancho coming, went out to welcome them with signs of hearty satisfaction, which Don Quixote received with dignity and gravity, and bade them make up a better bed for him than the last time: to which the landlady replied that if he paid better than he did the last time she would give him one fit for a prince.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He foretold confidently that the prince should die by the hand of his own familiar friend, a person of a slender habit of body, a small face, a swarthy complexion, and of most remarkable taciturnity.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

“I suppose you will not mind having our friend for a neighbor?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But du Croisier, instead of giving himself out frankly for a man of the extreme Left, ostensibly adopted the opinions formulated at a later date by the 221 deputies.
— from The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac

The passions of men have so often disfigured the sweet countenance of the gospel that those outside the household of faith form a false idea of it, and, in their inability to distinguish what is divine from what is human, they reject all.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

And this eagerness of theirs was further stimulated by the full approval of the officers of high rank, and especially of Florentius the prefect of the prætorian guard, who openly gave his opinion for fighting at once, while the enemy were in the solid mass in which they were now arranged; admitting the danger indeed, but still thinking it the wisest plan, because, if the enemy once dispersed, it would be impossible to restrain the soldiers, at all times inclined by their natural vehemence of disposition towards sedition; and they were likely to be, as he thought, so indignant at being denied the victory they sought, as to be easily tempted to the most lawless violence.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

As a field-crop, peas and oats are sown together, and make good ground or soaked feed for horses, or for fattening animals.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

Understand, too, from the very outset that I now give you the hand of firm friendship as I would give it to Reggie, my old schoolfellow and best friend, and that in future I shall safeguard your interests as though they were my own.”
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux

The professional man seldom advertises the fact that he has gone hunting or fishing for a day or a week, as it is thought to be not quite the thing for a lawyer to be away from his office for such a purpose.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson