L. S. is the Commencement of a Bluff which is about 4 miles extending on the river, of yellow and brown Clay in Some parts in it near the river a Soft Sand Stone is inbeded on the top (which is from 20 to 150 feet above the water, & rises back) is Covered with timber, a fiew red Ceider is on this Bluff, the wind Comes round to the S. E. a Prarie Wolf Come near the bank and Barked at us this evening, we made an attempt but could not git him, this Animale Barkes like a large feste Dog.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" —Henry V. The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he should be away until the evening.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But it would be as useless to examine his arguments by the requirements of modern logic, as to criticise this ideal from a merely utilitarian point of view.
— from Gorgias by Plato

We know of countless criminal cases which we face powerless because we do indeed know the criminal but are unable to explain the causal connection between him and the crime, or because, again, we do not know the criminal, and judge from the facts that we might have gotten a clew if we had understood the psychological development of the crime.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

There at table You will pledge good behaviour and uprightness; Then each man's wife is his to hustle home.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

And I consider my idea very important, but it turns out really to be as unimportant too, even if it were carried out, as doing for that bear.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Cyrus, that so renowned king, amongst the other qualities by which he claimed to be preferred before his brother Artaxerxes, urged this excellence, that he could drink a great deal more than he.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In the passion of love, for instance, a cause unknown to the sufferer, but which is doubtless the spring-flood of hereditary instincts accidentally let loose, suddenly checks the young man's gayety, dispels his random curiosity, arrests perhaps his very breath; and when he looks for a cause to explain his suspended faculties, he can find it only in the presence or image of another being, of whose character, possibly, he knows nothing and whose beauty may not be remarkable; yet that image pursues him everywhere, and he is dominated by an unaccustomed tragic earnestness and a new capacity for suffering and joy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That thou may'st know I seek not to engage Thy Vertue, and not every way secure On no slight grounds thy safety; hear, and mark To what end I have brought thee hither and shewn 350 All this fair sight; thy Kingdom though foretold By Prophet or by Angel, unless thou Endeavour, as thy Father David did, Thou never shalt obtain; prediction still In all things, and all men, supposes means, Without means us'd, what it predicts revokes.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Then Dr. Johnson blandly assured us that education was needful solely for the embellishments of life, and was useless for ordinary vermin.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

It must be remembered in basing arguments upon the early Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals, that our knowledge of them mainly depends upon lower jaws, the teeth of which are usually simpler in pattern than those of the upper jaws.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

I know, I feel, I have found out that very soon I shall see you no more; that I shall be alone upon the earth where I have found such joy and happiness in existing; that nothing 1755.png will remain to me, and the future will be to me without a hope, and darkened for ever!”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I was happy to see that Randolph had, by accident, used the expression "our republic," in the speech.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Mods cannot be attempted until the end of one year from matriculation, and need not be tackled until the expiration of two.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

From these, with a happiness that madness sometimes has, he jumped at conclusions, which many a wiser brain would have missed, and, like a blind man stumbling on a treasure, hit by accident upon the exact truth.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But he softened when he looked at the accounts and saw that I had actually booked the unparalleled number of thirty-three new subscribers, and had the vegetables to show for it, cordwood, cabbage, beans, and unsalable turnips enough to run the family for two years!
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain

But as usual this enactment was not effective, because there was a loop-hole in it.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

The lower stage is arcaded mainly in red brick, whilst the upper has a wall deeply recessed behind arcades under the eaves, with delicate balustrades between the columns which carry the arcades.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

The brook babbled along under the edge of this thicket.
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

Yet is not the nurse as important as the father, since without the benefits which I have received from each of them alike, I should have been alike unable to effect anything?
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca