out of our blankets every day or get no Sleep at night—The powder in maney of the mens horns are wet from their being so long exposed to the rain &c. H2 anchor [Clark, December 27, 1805] December 27th Friday 1805.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For if liberty and equality, as some persons suppose, are chiefly to be found in a democracy, it must be most so by every department of government being alike open to all; but as the people are the majority, and what they vote is law, it follows that such a state must be a democracy.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I can't have my life saved in a battle every day, or get a present of a million francs every day, but if I had Rivarol here by my sofa he would rid me every day of an hour of suffering and boredom.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

But even dreams of gold fluctuate and grow vague before the small interests of everyday living.
— from Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

"He would fain see you, sweet mistress, and but for a moment," the girl answered, being evidently desirous of getting the burden of the message off her mind.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

He was besides extremely desirous of getting round Cape Horn before us, as he imagined that step alone would effectually baffle all our designs, and therefore, on hearing that we were in his neighbourhood** and that we should soon be ready to proceed for Cape Horn he weighed anchor*** after a stay of seventeen days only and got under sail without his provisions, which arrived at Maldonado within a day or two after his departure.
— from Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Richard Walter

[339] Apparently the dowager of Alexander, fourth Baron Elibank, daughter of George Stirling, surgeon, Edinburgh.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

Farther on, however, as they increased their distance from the camp, the stretches of closely cropped grass gave place to an interminable sandy waste, devoid of all vegetation, and obstructed here and there by enormous dunes of glistening sand, which had been built up by the wind.
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Damsel of Brittany , Eleanor, daughter of Godffrey (second son of Henry II. of England).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

It was Gialp of the red eyes, the big elder daughter of Geirröd.
— from In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown