the largest and principal Lodge is Calculated for 2 fires only and Contains about ____ persons.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Being obliged to say something, he would mine his brain and put in a blast and when the smoke and flying debris had cleared away the result would be what seemed to him but a poor little intellectual clod of dirt or two, and then he would be astonished to see everybody as lost in admiration as if he had brought up a ton or two of virgin gold.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

What speeches were spoken, within doors and without; clear, and also passionate logic; imprecations, comminations; gone happily, for most part, to Limbo!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

rusui, a person left in charge of an establishment during the absence of the owner or master. sakana, food taken with liquor; as it chiefly consists of fish, it is often used in the sense of 'fish' as a food.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Coquetry, cleverly carried out, demands an even finer discernment than courtesy; provided a polite lady is civil to everybody, she has done fairly well in any case; but the flirt would soon lose her hold by such clumsy uniformity; if she tries to be pleasant to all her lovers alike, she will disgust them all.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Back of the house were some fields, and a path leading into clumps of trees.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Now, if I say that my will is subject to a practical law, I cannot adduce my inclination (e.g., in the present case my avarice) as a principle of determination fitted to be a universal practical law; for this is so far from being fitted for a universal legislation that, if put in the form of a universal law, it would destroy itself.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

He is a priest, learned in cases of conscience, and we will tell him ours.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And there you are, dwelling with me snug as a parson, living in clover, taking your ease!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

c. 16-34,) Theodoret, (l. i. c. 14-34,) and Philostorgius, (l. ii. c. 1-17.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

You have been hitherto so unhappy, my beloved child, that seeing you, so to speak, reviving under the impulse of this noble and pure love, I could not for anything in the world have deprived you of its divine and rare joys.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue

A low call, indeed, brought Hawkins and Hurst and a few of the others hurrying forward, with Sergeant Evans and Private Larkin in close attendance.
— from The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure. by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Io resto ora impaziente per la lettera che ha promesso scrivermi da Genova, dove dubito assai che la delicatezza di quelle dame non le abbia fatto fare qualche giorno di quarantena, per ispurgarsi di ogni anche più leggiero influsso, che possa avere portato seco dell' aria di questo paese; e molto più, se le fosse venuto il capriccio di far vedere
— from Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by James Boswell

James Young's Public Men [Pg xii] and Public Life in Canada .
— from George Brown by John Lewis

For Captain Dunning well knew that another storm might arise as quickly as the former had done, and although the ship at present lay in comparatively quiet water, the huge billows that would be dashed against her in such circumstances would be certain to break her up and scatter her cargo on the breast of the all-devouring sea.
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"So he is my brother, and yours, too, Carl Schummel, for that matter," answered Peter, looking into Carl's eye.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

The fairly large flowers, which are pale lavender in color, begin blooming in May and are found in bloom throughout most of the summer.
— from Wild Flowers of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument by Leland F. Allen

They lead a pleasant life in Ceylon, the climate being good most of the year, and those who are contented declare that a European can live there and enjoy as good health as at home.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie