this mountain was to view the river below, the weather being So Cloudey & thick that I could not See any distance down, discovered the wind high from the N. W. and waves high at a Short distance below our Encampment, (Squar displeased with me for not sin &c &c. Wap-lo a excellent root which is rosted and tastes like a potato I Cut my hand despatched 3 men in a Indian canoe (which is calculated to ride high Swells) down to examine if they can find the Bay at the mouth & good barbers below for us to proceed in Safty.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But at present I content myself with knowing perfectly the manner in which objects affect my senses, and their connections with each other, as far as experience informs me of them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I did that, sir,' said a great lubberly fellow, stepping forward; 'and preciously I cut my knuckle agin' his mouth.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On the other hand, a principle is called metaphysical if it represents the a priori condition under which alone Objects, whose concept must be empirically given, can be further determined a priori .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

A dispute immediately ensued; for the Englishman made his addresses to the lady, without paying the least regard to the priority of the other's claim; and she, being pleased with his attachment, did not scruple to renounce his rival, who swore by the thunder, lightning, and sacrament, that he would not quit his pretensions for any prince in Christendom, much less for a little English cavalier, whom he had already honoured too much in condescending to be his companion.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

we'll pass them by: 'tis a prefatory introduction, continued my father, or an introductory preface (for I am not determined which name to give it) upon political or civil government; the foundation of which being laid in the first conjunction betwixt male and female, for procreation of the species—I was insensibly led into it.—'Twas natural, said Yorick.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In reply to their criticism George Washington said: "Do you suppose that I am going to permit a poor, ignorant, coloured man to be more polite than I am?"
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Tasso's enchantress Armida is a variation of the Angelica of the same poet, combined with Ariosto's Alcina; but her passionate voluptuousness makes her quite a new character in regard to the one; and she is as different from the painted hag of the Orlando as youth, beauty, and patriotic intention can make her.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

Illustration is better than explanation, and perhaps I can more graphically set J. Edward O'Sullivan Addicks before my readers by a few incidents which show his contradictory characteristics in action than by verbal diagrams, however laborious.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

This we find to be a peculiarity in Chinese music.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

At present, I cannot move.
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler

The sentry at a post is changed much oftener than any servant at a private house or institution can possibly be.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

"Oi can't kill a poor innocent calf mesilf an' I won't hev me boy doin' it," he said.
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

A print, intitled “Cursus Mundi.”
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

—This is not, strictly, in the carpenter's domain; but a knowledge of its use will be of great service in the trade, and particularly in cabinet making.
— from Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe

Her father was a poster in Clare Market (1728-1767).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer