they differ but litte in appeance dress &c. from those of the rapids.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But this internal freedom can not exist if each state has the power of fixing the duties on interchange of commodities between itself and foreign countries, since every foreign product let in by one state would be let into all the rest; and hence all custom duties and trade regulations in the United States are made or repealed by the federal government exclusively.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

“Hetty, run and tell your uncle to come in,” said Mrs. Poyser, as they entered the house, and the old gentleman bowed low in answer to Hetty's curtsy; while Totty, conscious of a pinafore stained with gooseberry jam, stood hiding her face against the clock and peeping round furtively.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Over and over again their towns had been laid in ashes and their fields wasted.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But leave it all to God.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The door is pushed open, and Susan Brady looks in, and knocks on door.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

In the belly of a swallow there is a stone found called chelidonius, [4150] which if it be lapped in a fair cloth, and tied to the right arm, will cure lunatics, madmen, make them amiable and merry.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The baronet lay in a quiet sleep, his arm laying outside the bed, and his strong hand clasped in his young wife's delicate fingers.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and B can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[A] for s.t. bulky to be lying in an ungainly way.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then please remember that the signs mean something, and don't [Pg 94] drone away like a set of Buddhist lamas intoning a chant!"
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

When he let go the beast lay in a heap, dead to all appearance.
— from Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

We were all glad to stretch our legs at Langres, and after we were given a little refreshing exercise, we were loaded on motor trucks and taken to our barracks, located in a stone building formerly used as a convent.
— from In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Edward Alva Trueblood

Men, women and children were to be massacred, and the buildings laid in ashes.
— from Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

To be led into a clear and full apprehension of this is divine emancipation to the conscience and true elevation for the whole moral being.
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Lord Rotherby bowed low, in acknowledgment of the compliment.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

But typographical difficulties have negatived this: a great deal has had to be left in a form which must be accepted simply as the least unsatisfactory.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

The boy looked interested, and put on an expression as though in deep thought, and finally said, “I suppose the farmer that put up the sausage did not strain the dog meat.
— from Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Having led a pure and blameless life, I am justified in believing that no man who knows me will reject the suggestions I am about to make, out of fear that I am trying to deceive him.
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain

Now there is nothing international about the new organization, and many persons are liable to be led into a misconception of the Association's objects if this term is continually mis-applied to it.
— from Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896 by Various