Odoric gives a description, short, but closely agreeing in substance with that in the Text, of the Palace, the Park, the Lake, and the Green Mount.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The N. W. wind blew verry hard all night with Some rain a Cold morning, we Set out at 7 oClock and proceeded on at 12 oClock landed on a Bare L. S. examined the Perogus & factle of the boat to see if the mice had done any damage, Several bags Cut by them Corn Scattered &.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The dose is 1/180 of a grain, and doses should be continued heroically until 1/20 of a grain is administered, or until, in the physician's opinion, a proper quantity has been injected.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The same courage which obtains the esteem of a civilized enemy provokes the fury of a savage, and the impatient besieger had bound himself by a tremendous oath, that age, and sex, and dignity, should be confounded in a general massacre.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It having been mentioned to Dr. Johnson that a gentleman who had a son whom he imagined to have an extreme degree of timidity, resolved to send him to a publick school, that he might acquire confidence;—'Sir, (said Johnson,) this is a preposterous expedient for removing his infirmity; such a disposition should be cultivated in the shade.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Very well,” I said, with a disconcerted smile; “but couldn’t it reduce itself to not being found out?”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Rousseau and Flossy .—We know of no cure for mere nervousness, unless, as sometimes happens, it passes into a disease, when a doctor should be consulted.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various

General Discussion of Shamanistic and Dancing Societies By Clark Wissler.
— from The Whale House of the Chilkat by George Thornton Emmons

We deemed it our duty to warn you, and did so by cable."
— from Final Proof; Or, The Value of Evidence by Rodrigues Ottolengui

Pure hydrochloric acid poured on potato flour, or on wheat flour adulterated with it, develops a smell of rushes; it also dissolves starch, but changes the colour of pure wheat-flour to a deep violet.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Huxley was called upon to speak by the President, but tried to avoid a discussion, on the ground "that a general audience, in which sentiment would unduly interfere with intellect, was not the public before which such a discussion should be carried on."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

The walnut , being a spreading tree with large leaves, should only be planted where no injury will be sustained by a deep shade being cast upon the ground; but it must be observed that its leaves are disliked by all cattle, and are injurious to cows.
— from The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

They considered that when in frivolous matters, or in differences of opinion which the law tolerates and even authorizes, a man is induced to expose himself to death or to slay another, he is actually demented, and that, therefore, all principals and seconds in a duel should be considered labouring under an alienation of mind, and deprived of any public station that they might hold; that their property, moreover, should be vested in the hands of trustees, and in fact be considered as labouring under an interdiction.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

But they retain their dislike of dogs, a dislike shared by cattle, as if they too dimly remembered a time when they had been hunted.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies