Clean out , to ruin, or make bankrupt any one; to take all he has got, [120] by purchase, chicane, or force.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Rather they have been poor chroniclers for the public; but their official reports, hidden away in government archives, are rich in their thorough investigations, oftentimes more nearly perfect and complete than the equivalents in our own language, where it takes no long argument to prove that great attention given to the public and popular account, has been at the expense of the similar qualities in the official report; while many expeditions, American and British, have not been under official patronage at all, which has seldom been the case with Russian research.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The hills and the rocks are rent asunder in places, excavations expose great blocks of building-stone that have lain buried for ages, and all the mean houses and walls of modern Smyrna along the way are spotted white with broken pillars, capitals and fragments of sculptured marble that once adorned the lordly palaces that were the glory of the city in the olden time.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I supposed it would be particularly convenient there.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say—a weight here, at one’s heart.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

It was said to have been founded by Phocian colonists under Philogenes and Damon.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But, though the simple peasants little guessed it, the young carpenter whom they treated as an equal was in reality none other than the Czar of Russia, Peter I., who, in accordance with his accustomed energy of character and love of thoroughness, had come thus to the village in humble dress and hired himself out as a carpenter, in order to learn for himself the art of shipbuilding, to know that his navy was being properly constructed.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

This tree is an interesting hybrid between P. communis and the whitebeam, P. aria .
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

At the close of the proceedings, their issue being prearranged, Campion was allowed to make a speech to the jurors.
— from Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Imogen Guiney

Had this one Article been properly considered, le Blond , must have seen the impossibility of printing any Quantity from his repeated Impressions of Blue, Red, and Yellow Plates, so as to produce only Twenty of these printed Pictures to be alike.
— from John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen

The preference of Van Buren had been dictated by powerful causes long before Mrs. Timberlake became Mrs. Eaton.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

A 3 a.m. bunch of New Year's Eve booze punishers couldn't have given a more scandalous exhibition.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

_#_GNP: $238 billion, per capita $5,600; real growth rate 9% (1990 est.)
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

up and streamin' rarely" for Bonnie Prince Charlie, saw fiery times in those remote parts, and knew times of dule afterwards, and the difficulty about any authentic tale of events, is that, in its passage down time, from mouth to mouth, it necessarily loses immediacy of phrase, even of fable, and that rude frame of living and loving, fighting and dying, in which it was originally set.
— from The Black Colonel by James Milne

See Infusoria Antarctic islands, 263 Antipodes, 444 Ants at Keeling Island, 485 in Brazil, 36 Antuco volcano, 311 Apires, or miners 364 Aplysia, 6 , 493 Apple-trees, 318 Aptenodytes demersa, 209 Araucanian Indians, 66 Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific and Indian oceans, 480 Armadilloes, habits of, 110 fossil animals allied to, 137 , 164 Arqueros mines, 369 Arrow-heads, ancient, 109 , 381 Ascension, 522 , 538 Aspalax, blindness of, 53 Athene cunicularia, 73 , 132 Atolls, 490 , 495 Attagis, 98 Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 124 Audubon, M., on smelling-power of carrion-hawks, 195 Australia, 459 Australian barrier, 499 group of weapons, 480 Ava (Macropiper methysticum), 428 , 436 Azara on spiders, 39 on rain in La Plata, 49 on habits of carrion-hawks, 58 on range of carrion-hawks, 60 on a thunder-storm, 65 on ostrich-eggs, 95 on bows and arrows, 110 on new plants springing up, 125 on great droughts, 142 on hydrophobia, 378 B ACHMAN , Mr., on carrion-hawks, 195 Bahia Blanca, 50 , 70 , 77 to 110 fossil tooth of horse from, 138 Bahia, Brazil, 11 scenery of, 526 Bajada, 136 Balbi on coral reefs, 499 Bald Head, Australia, 479 Ballenar, Chile, 373 Banda Oriental, 48 , 152 , 158 , 186 Banks's Hill, 221 Barking-bird, 307 Barrier-reef, Bolabola, reefs, sections of, 500 Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 182 Bathurst, Australia, 470 Batrachian reptiles, 101 Bats, vampire, 22 , 23 Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 444 Beads, hill of, 158 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 230 Beech-trees, 251 , 292 Beetles in brackish water, 22 on a fungus, 32 alive in sea, 168 at St. Julian, 180 dung-feeders, 520 , 521 Behring's Straits, fossils of, 140 Bell of Quillota, 270 Benchuca, 352 Berkeley Sound, 199 , 214 Rev. J., on Confervæ, 15 on Cyttaria, 250 Berquelo river, 158 Bibron, M., 407 Bien te veo, 56 Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 405 tameness of, 424 Birgos latro, 492 , 512 Bizcacha, habits of, 73 , 130 , 273 Blackheath, Australia, 466 Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 171 Blindness of tucutuco, 53 Blue Mountains, 465 Body, frozen, 93 , 263 Bolabola, barrier-reef, 498 , 504 Bolas, manner of using, 46 , 117 Bombs, volcanic, 524 Bones of the guanaco collected in certain spots, 177 fire made of, 205 recent in Pampas, 142 fossil, 86 , 134 , 137 , 164 , 182 Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 407 Boulders, 197 , 262 Bramador, El, 358 Brazil, great area of granite, 12 Brazilian whips, etc., 75 Breaches in coral reefs, 502 Breakwater of seaweed, 253 Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit, 10 Bridge of hide, 334 of Incas, 357 , 380 , 394 Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 140 Buenos Ayres, 127 trading at, 111 evening camp, 128 bullock-waggons, 150 Buffon on American Animals, 183 Bug of Pampas, 352 Buildings, Indian, 381 to 383, 394 Bulimus on desert places, 371 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 91 on ostrich-eggs, 95 on perforated stones, 285 Butterflies, flocks of, 167 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 34 Button, Jemmy, 218 Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 204 on an Indian killing his child, 228 C ABBAGE PALM , 26 Cacti, 174 , 278 , 399 Cactornis, 405 , 424 Cactus, Cereus Peruviana, 278 Calasoma on wing out at sea, 168 Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George's Sound, 479 incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 9 Callao, 389 , 391 Calodera, 132 Calomys bizcacha, 130 Camarhynchus, 405 , 424 Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to, 182 Cancer salinus, 69 Canis antarcticus, 204 fulvipes, 287 Cape Horn, 222 , 223 False Horn, 229 , 243 of Good Hope, 91 Capybara, or carpincho, 40 , 51 , 182 , 307 fossil allied to, 87 Caracara, or Carrancha, 57 Cardoon, beds of, 125 , 157 Carizal, 371 Carmichael, Capt., 426 Carrion-hawks, 59 , 126 , 195 Casarita, 99 Cassava, 23 Castro, Chiloe, 296 , 315 old church at, 291 Casuchas, 358 Catamaran, 18 Cathartes, 60 , 195 Cats run wild, 123 , 523 good to eat, 123 scratch trees, 144 cruelty to mice, 209 Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation, 124 killed by great droughts, 142 , 156 know each other, 155 curious breed of, 155 waste of, 158 wild at the Falkland Islands, 200 , 203 Caucahue, 295 Cauquenes, hot springs of, 281 Causes of extinction of species among mammalia, 182 of discoloured sea, 15 Cavia Patagonica, 72 Cawa-Cawa, New Zealand, 456 Caylen, 298 Cervus campestris, 50 Ceryle Americana, 147 Chacao, Chiloe, 293 Chagos atolls, 508 Chalk-like mud, 494 Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 484 , 491 on coral reefs, 496 Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 126 in vegetation of St. Helena, 519 Charles Island, 400 , 420 Chatham Island, 399 , 420 Cheese, salt required for, 68 Cheucau, 297 , 307 Chile, 268 , 271 , 274 features of country, 270 Chilenos, 194 , 337 Chilian miner, 277 spurs, stirrup, etc, 290 vegetation, 359 Chiloe, 291 old church at castro, 291 forests of, and climate, 292 inhabitants of, 292 , 294 roads of, 293 , 313 , 314 Gunnera scabra, 310 Chionis alba, 98 Cholechel, conflict at, 109 Chonos Archipelago, 300 , 304 climate of, 292 zoology of, 306 ornithology of, 307 Chupat, Rio, 110 Chuzo, 66 Cicada homoptera, 529 Cladonia, 387 Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, in Chile, 271 Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, 257 Antarctic Islands, 263 change of, in Chile, 382 Galapagos, 397 Clouds of vapour after rain, 25 on Corcovado, 30 hanging low, 389 at sea, 429 Coloeoptera in Tropics, 35 out at sea, 168 of St. Julian, 180 Colias edusa, flocks of, 168 Colnett, Capt., on spawn in sea, 17 on a marine lizard,
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin