they are not beggerley and receive what is given them with much joy.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But he should ha' made a deal more on her, and not been always reading, reading, thinking, thinking.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality , and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui , below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The steward had accepted nothing, but a report got about that a mighty nugget of gold had been given him by his former master, and Timon therefore received more visitors.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

On the other hand, the night before, when Woods's division was in camp in the open fields at Little Congaree, it was shelled all night by a rebel battery from the other aide of the river.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The reader may form a general idea of this work from the following critique, which Dr. Robertson, the historian, passes upon it: "Bernal Diaz's account bears all the marks of authenticity, and is accompanied with such pleasant naïveté, with such interesting details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier, who had been, as he boasts, in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The categories are not based, as regards their origin, upon sensibility, like the forms of intuition, space, and time; they seem, therefore, to be capable of an application beyond the sphere of sensuous objects.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And then the two Dropt to the cove, and watched the great sea fall, Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to Merlin's feet, Who stoopt and caught the babe, and cried "The King!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Carbon and nitrogen balances, and respiratory quotient are to be determined in animals fed the bacteria as their sole food source.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

But she was upheld by none of the traditional pride in a righteous action, nor by a raging single-mindedness like Judith's, who stalked along, her little fists clenched, frowning blackly to right and left on the other children, evidently far more angry with them than sympathetic for Cécile.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Should this prove equally devoid of effect, or the allowance not bear any reduction, he may, in conjunction with the president of the commission, report the case, at the same time stating the names of the witnesses, to the sorenskriver [5] , who on the next general or monthly sitting of the court, after a brief inquiry, by an unappealable sentence shall punish the guilty with imprisonment not exceeding 20 days, upon bread and water.
— from Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report by Nassau William Senior

Several styles of type are in use: namely, the script having close round letters, and being as nearly black as Roman or Old English when engraved; a script lighter and more cursive; an Old English lettering; a shaded Roman letter, which is constantly growing in popularity; shaded Caxton; solid and shaded French script; and a plain Roman block letter.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

A Literary Register and Monthly Catalogue of Old and New Books, and Repository of Notes and Queries.
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin

Men of this stamp are not beaten and rendered helpless by the misfortune of losing their usual employment; they are capable of devising fresh methods of earning a livelihood; they are persistent, persevering, energetic; they are not content to stand by with their hands in their pockets and their back at the wall; at times they even create an occupation, and devise new wants for the community.
— from Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison

He sniffed the pleasant odors that came from the kitchen automobiles near by, and remarked naïvely that he would be glad to share their rations until they passed him on.
— from The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

But you don't know that feller Crewe—he's a full-size cyclone when he gets started, and nothin' but a range of mountains could stop him."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Medici (Salvestro de') proposes to mitigate the severity of the law in Florence, i. 434; rise of his family, 498; character of Giovanni, ib. and note ; banishment and recall of Cosmo, 499; his death: his son Piero, 500; death of Julian: popularity and princely career of Lorenzo, 501; his bankruptcy repaired at the cost of the state, 502 and note q ; his title to esteem, 503.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam