Wide and navagable Some distance in the Countrey, the land below is high & not verry good.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

There are no similar difficulties in the way of modifying the Ideal of Moral Excellence—as distinguished from the dictates of Moral Duty—in order to render it more perfectly felicific.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Next morning Camaralzaman woke up before the bird left its perch, and no sooner did it take flight than he followed it again with as little success as the previous day, only stopping to eat some herbs and fruit he found by the way.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The names of the good houses are not set down in the paper, for fear of the police.”— Mayhew , vol.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Adverbs in -mente are given under their adjectives, and are not separately defined if the definition of the adjective sufficiently indicates their rendering.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The names of the good houses are not set down in the paper for fear of the police.”— Mayhew , vol.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has arisen in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

In the heart of an interminable forest it stretches along one side of the tangled trail, in some places walling it in, at others crossing it at right angles; now suddenly diving into the depths of the forest, now reappearing afar off, as if to mock our cautious progress, and invite us to follow it.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

It may be that divers of them living at home with hard and pinching diet, small drinks, and some of them having scarce enough of that, are soonest overtaken when they come unto such banquets, howbeit they take it generallie as no small disgrace if they happen to be cup-shotten, so that is a grefe unto them, though now sans remédie
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

A little allowance must, of course, be made for the sanguine nature of the expectations formed by persons whose imaginations are dazzled by the splendid visions of the future arising before them; still, enough appears to have been demonstrated to justify a strong hope that there are no serious difficulties in the way of our permanent occupation of a place which we have succeeded in rescuing from Arab tyranny.
— from Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts

Reader, I must not detain you much longer from the pleasure of entering upon a narrative so deeply interesting to all who possess the understanding heart—an allegory, believed by very many to be the most beautiful and extraordinary that mere human genius ever composed in any language.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

The wet and dry seasons are not so decided in the hills as they are in the plains.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Then with bated breath we watched the ship slump slowly over from its gestured climbing and nose straight down inexorably toward the ice of Lake St. Clair.
— from Test Pilot by James Collins

(when the law was in its height) the causes and reasons of judgments, in respect of the multitude of them, are not set down in the record, but then the great casuists and reporters of cases (certain grave and sad men) published the cases, and the reasons and causes of the judgments or resolutions , which, from the beginning of the reign of Ed. III.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Our ears are filled continually with reports, and it is the usual way of men to delight to hear, and to report even those things that are not so delightful in themselves.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning