nothing to eate but pounded fish which we Keep as a reserve and use in Situations of this kind. H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In fact, it is on your account I am speaking, let me tell you that!” As a rule, after uttering such monologues (which happened to him pretty frequently)
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After a time she threw it up so high that she missed catching it as it fell; and the ball bounded away, and rolled along upon the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I can't stay still in any place, but wander about always restless and unhappy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One of the circumstances which most powerfully contribute to support the Federal Government in America is that the States have not only similar interests, a common origin, and a common tongue, but that they are also arrived at the same stage of civilization; which almost always renders a union feasible.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He was in that yeasty condition of his years when action and reflection alternately usurp the mind; remorse succeeded dissipation, and indulgences offered the soporific to remorse.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley

Marcellus, when elected consul for the third time, sailed to Sicily; for Hannibal's successes in the war had encouraged the Carthaginians to recover that island, especially as Syracusan politics were in a disturbed state in consequence of the death of the despot Hieronymus; and on this account a Roman army under Appius had already been sent there.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

There are matters as to which every set of people has of course most to trust itself, most to feel its own genius and its own stoutness—as we are here and all round about us knowing and abiding by that now as we have never done.
— from Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15 by Henry James

It is usual to call the use of a house for business purposes a productive use, but its use as a residence an unproductive one.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

He would be frank, he said, and acknowledge that it suggested an undisciplined and lawless habit of thought, a disregard for authority, a lack of reverence for tradition, and a riotous and unbridled imagination.
— from Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Sir William Berkeley had all along retained an unshaken loyalty for the royal family, and therefore generously told the people, that he could not approve of the Protector's rule, and was resolved never to serve anybody but the lawful heir to the crown; and that if he accepted the government, it should be upon their solemn promise, after his example, to venture their lives and fortunes for the king, who was then in France.
— from The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

The sentences to be analyzed are reproduced as usual by building the first sentence on each slip; and then, by changing the adverb, the child gets the second or third sentence.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

Sir Guy Johnson , called an Indian council at Guy Park, where the Mohawks alone attended; his object being to provide against a rumored attack upon his person by the revolutionists.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell