Of course, the horses and mules at first refused to take to the water, and it was nearly a day's work to get them across, and even then some of our animals after crossing escaped into the woods and undergrowth that lined the river, but we secured enough of them to reach Sutter's Fort, three miles back from the embcarcadero, where we encamped at the old slough, or pond, near the fort.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But there is, besides, in the centre of the building, a fine rotunda, ninety-six feet in diameter, and ninety-six high, whose circular wall is divided into compartments, ornamented by historical pictures.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Of his three sisters two died young, the other married twice, her first husband being a French refugee minister who became a Prebendary of Westminster.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

71 I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to shew, a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected with Great Britain.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The tide of thought and feeling rolls on for ever the same, though the banks and shapes around, which govern its course, and the reflection in the wave, vary.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In ocean’s waters, name and form renouncing, So, too, the sage, released from name and form, Is merged in the divine and highest spirit.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

When he had thoroughly slept an hour or two, another adventurous and all-hazarding blade of the forlorn hope of the lavishingly wasting gamesters, having also lost all his moneys, sallied forth with sword in his hand, of a firm resolution to fight with the aforesaid Gascon, seeing he had lost as well as he.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning, without at first recognising it beneath the disguise which it assumes on entering his presence, so as to wound him and to make him suffer; the odd words, the unaccountable attitude, one evening, of a person whom he has a thousand reasons for loving.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

"It is a fact," replied Jan Yu; "I was taught by Confucius.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

though he may include in the question a fervent regret for the fate which attended her wandering from him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm,—the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, while the oarswomen in turn were likened to Minerva with her feet upon a tortoise.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I should also write to others; but indeed I am jack-tired, and must go to bed to a French novel to compose myself for slumber.—Ever your affectionate friend, R. L. S. To Edmund Gosse 608 Bush Street, San Francisco, California, Jan. 23, 1880.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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— from Little Foxes: Stories for Boys and Girls by E. A. Henry

The prolonged incapacity of the new skipper rendered it necessary for Leslie to make some arrangement whereby he could secure a proper amount of rest; and therefore, the carpenter being a steady and fairly reliable man, he arranged with him that the latter should take charge of the starboard watch during Purchas’s “indisposition.”
— from Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harry Collingwood

Very pretty, she seemed, in her travelling hat and flowing robes;
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Your old parishioners of Holy Rosary Cathedral, and others with whom you came in contact through missions and other work throughout the Province, have kept a fond and faithful remembrance of your Reverence.
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

Hanson wrote Letters to and from Rome A.D. 61, 62 and 63.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

And touching our doings heere, you shall perceiue that wee haue solde wares of this fourth voyage for one hundred and fourtie robles, besides fiftie robles of the second and third voyage since the giuing vp of my last account, and for wares of the Countrey, you shall vnderstand that I haue bought tried and vntried for 77.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

And hence, as I have said, all the righteousness they seek to accomplish is but as a menstruous cloth and filthy rags; therefore they are sinners still.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan