Very probably the good-looking face of the young woman in the clogs had a good deal to do with the impression of well-being this peasant household made upon Levin, but the impression was so strong that Levin could never get rid of it.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Men of trades and sellers of wares in this city have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

At last we all parted, but within a quarter of an hour after they were gone, and my wife and I were talking about buying of a fine scallop which is brought her this morning by a woman to be sold, which is to cost her 45s., in comes the German back again, all in a goare of blood, which I wondered at, and tells me that he is afeard that the Captain is killed by the watermen at Towre Stayres; so I presently went thither, and found that upon some rude pressing of the watermen to ply the Captain, he struck one of them with his cane, which they would not take, but struck him again, and then the German drew his sword and ran at one of them, but they were both soundly beaten.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

‘Mrs. Squeers intended to say ‘foundling,’ but, as she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence; with which axiom of philosophy, indeed, she was in the constant habit of consoling the boys when they laboured under more than ordinary ill-usage.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I set six men at work to pepare four sets of truck wheels with couplings, toungs and bodies, that they might either be used without the bodies for transporting our canoes, or with them in transporting our baggage I found that the Elk skins I had prepared for my boat were insufficient to compleat her, some of them having become dammaged by the weather and being frequently wet; to make up this deficiency I sent out two hunters this morning to hunt Elk; the ballance of the party I employed first in unloading the white perogue, which we intend leaving at this place, and bring the whole of our baggage together and arranging it in proper order near our camp.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This is the reason, Monsieur, why, although persons of an ingenious turn laugh at our care as to what will happen after our own time, for instance, to our souls, which, lodged elsewhere, will lose all consciousness of what goes on here below, yet I consider it to be a great consolation for the frailty and brevity of life, to reflect that we have the power of prolonging it by reputation and fame; and I embrace very readily this pleasant and favourable notion original with our being, without inquiring too critically how or why it is.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

During the months of March, April, and May, these whales appear in great numbers in the open ports of Santa Barbara, San Pedro, etc., and hover off the coast, while a few find their way into the close harbors of San Diego and Monterey.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Why is that cloak here?”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But whereas in the common historie of England, the succession of kings ought to be kept, so oft as it chanceth in the same that there is not anie to fill the place, then one while the Romane emperors are placed in their steads, and another while their lieutenants, and are said to be created kings of the Britains, as though the emperors were inferiors vnto the kings of Britaine, and that the Romane lieutenants at their appointments, and not by prescript of the senat or emperours, administred the prouince.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Raphael Holinshed

What was it to him, for instance, if they took advantage of his hasty language to declare that he was in the constant habit of swearing, when he knew that even from boyhood no oath had ever crossed his lips?
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

There was his herd feeding peacefully outside, and as Apollo forced his way into the cave, he saw the mischievous little boy who had been the cause of all the trouble.
— from Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

"I wonder if Ted could have done this?" mused Mr. Martin.
— from The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection by Howard Roger Garis

Wherefore, into the castle he goes; it was that which Shaddai built in Mansoul for his own delight and pleasure; this now was become a den and hold for the giant Diabolus.
— from The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul by John Bunyan

True, there were waterways inland, the Connecticut, Hudson, Delaware, James, and Potomac rivers, but these led straight into the mountains where for generations the feeble settlements could not spread and where explorers became disheartened ere the rich empire beyond was ever reached.
— from Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers by Archer Butler Hulbert

They exist originally in the purest ether, which is their celestial home.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

Pete was shrewd and in no way inclined to commit himself carelessly.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs