Dureing the time of my being on the Plains and above the falls I as also all my party repeatedly heard a nois which proceeded from a Direction a little to the N. of West, as loud and resembling precisely the discharge of a piece of ordinance of 6 pounds at the distance of 5 or six miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the first attempt to coordinate artillery, leaflet and radio propaganda.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It were better to say that stains of blood are as lovely as rose petals.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

Wit is keen and like a rapier, piercing deeply, sometimes even to the heart.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It is not always easy to be quite independent and self-respecting when one is poor and lives among rich people; I have been careless about money, and have worried about my bills.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

You will not easily conceive a more singular sight, than is presented by the vast aisle of the principal church at Luebec, seen from the organ loft: for being filled with female servants and persons in the same class of life, and all their caps having gold and silver cauls, it appears like a rich pavement of gold and silver.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Collected in his strength, and like a rock, Pois’d on his base, Mezentius stood the shock.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The distance seemed more like a mile than half a mile, but we reached the place at last, and rushed, panting, into the bar.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

She had gone up to claim a mirror she had won—a mirror with a gold frame, and lilacs and roses painted lavishly on its surface.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

Grote says:— "The tragic drama belonged essentially to the festivals in honour of the god Dionysus; being originally a chorus sung in his honour, to which were successively superadded: First, an iambic monologue; next, a dialogue with two actors; lastly, a regular plot with three actors, and a chorus itself interwoven into the scene.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles

“No, no, Henrietta, not if you will act like a rational person,” said he with something of a smile, which she could not help returning in her surprise at finding herself downstairs after all.
— from Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

We have but just now entered your kingdom, and crave for God's love, if not a refuge, at least a resting place.
— from Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 by Various

They were of every age, yet they all looked alike, ridiculous, pantomimic, appalling.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

it would simply invite destruction.... ... Are there any signs that the permanent peace of the world will be established in anything like a reasonable period?
— from Compilation on Peace by Universal House of Justice

Its nearest analogues show, besides a similarity in character, a likeness as regards physical properties and a proximity in atomic weight.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Boreham Wood (1¼ mile N.E. from Elstree) is a large and rather prettily situated hamlet.
— from Hertfordshire by Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth) Tompkins

At last a Roman page said he had seen the duke fall.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth