on this Island I met with great quantities of a smal onion about the size of a musquit ball and some even larger; they were white crisp and well flavored I geathered about half a bushel of them before the canoes arrived.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

350 But God left free the Will, for what obeyes Reason, is free, and Reason he made right, But bid her well beware, and still erect, Least by some faire appeering good surpris'd She dictate false, and missinforme the Will To do what God expresly hath forbid.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

A 'bus went by, and sounded exactly like the rumbling of a train.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But God left free the Will, for what obeyes Reason, is free, and Reason he made right, But bid her well beware, and still erect, Least by some faire appeering good surpris’d She dictate false, and missinforme the Will To do what God expresly hath forbid.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

She did not in the least resemble either of her children; her black and sparkling eye, lit up by pride, was totally unlike the blue lustre, and frank, benignant expression of either Adrian or Idris.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose), and he danced, and shook his fists, and called us all the English he knew.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

By a strange error Lequien ( Oriens Christ.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Yet the modern Persians still commemorate the exploits of Bahram; and some excellent laws have prolonged the duration of his troubled and transitory reign.
— 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

He was engaged in gay parties, or with his courtly bow at some episcopal levée, when he should have been attending upon us.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

There was but a single entrance leading from the place into the avenue and this was well guarded by Sagoths—this doorway alone were we forbidden to pass.
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Like his namesake, the snake, he may be a showy enough looking fellow at first sight, he may have the knack of wriggling himself into your acquaintance, and his rattle may amuse you for a time, but wait till he turns and stings you!
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

In another moment he had, by a supreme effort, lifted the latter bodily to the platform.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

Halliday, always on the alert for the unexpected, came quickly to the door of the building, and saw everyone looking upward and northward, to where a small black dot spotted the blue of the sky.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

This is not an imaginary principle but a strictly enforced law of Japanese painting.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

“She is a maid of sweet obedient conditions, trained by a scholar even like yourself.
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Hats were swept off to her ladyship, sly glances flashed at her companion, who went pale, but apparently serene, eyes looking straight before her; and there was an obvious concealing of smiles at first, which later grew to be all unconcealed, and, later still, became supplemented by remarks that all might hear, remarks which did not escape—as they were meant not to escape—her ladyship and Mistress Winthrop.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

But auctioneers subdue even lions, and make no account of a coat of gilding.
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

a layer of ostreatus, buttering and seasoning each layer, sprinkle with bread crumbs and grated cheese and so on until dish is filled, placing cheese on top.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine