Som hard Showers of rain last night, this morn Cloudy and drisley rain, in the bay above the Showers appear harder.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In a half-choked voice he curtly and defiantly rejoined, 'I will have none of my part cut out—it is too heavenly.'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It should, however, be observed that the admission of an exception on general grounds is merely the establishment of a more complex and delicate rule, instead of one that is broader and simpler; for if it is conducive to the general good that such an exception be admitted in one case, it will be equally so in all similar cases.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

A very careful best man carries a duplicate ring, in case of one being lost during the ceremony.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It is true, the letter of the Cardinal Spada was singularly circumstantial, and Dantès repeated it to himself, from one end to the other, for he had not forgotten a word.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

More sources about sources ————————————— The "Internet-Accessible Library Catalogs and Databases" report is available by email from LISTSERV@UNMVM.BITNET.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation|; perquisition[obs3], perscrutation[obs3], pervestigation|; inquest, inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation. sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction; Baconian method[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The distinction of rank associated with clanship, the division into village communities and districts, result, in the manner sketched out in Chapter II , in the subordination of commoners to chiefs.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I wish the faculty would follow the cut of it, said Yorick.—'Tis all cut through, an' please your reverence, said the corporal, with drains and bogs; and besides, there was such a quantity of rain fell during the siege, the whole country was like a puddle,—'twas that, and nothing else, which brought on the flux, and which had like to have killed both his honour and myself; now there was no such thing, after the first ten days, continued the corporal, for a soldier to lie dry in his tent, without cutting a ditch round it, to draw off the water;—nor was that enough, for those who could afford it, as his honour could, without setting fire every night to a pewter dish full of brandy, which took off the damp of the air, and made the inside of the tent as warm as a stove.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Sons of Senators Crittenden, Clay, and Davis received important appointments abroad, and the son-in-law of Senator Calhoun was retained in the diplomatic service.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

"I do not know, sir," said he to his pupil with cold and distant respect, "if you recollect what you told me yesterday, namely, that you knew who you are and who I am.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

How’s that?” “All right; although, of course, a doughnut recipe isn’t a person.”
— from Captain Chub by Ralph Henry Barbour

When at night the quilt falls off I begin to dream of huge slippery stones, of cold autumnal water, naked banks—and all this dim, misty, without a patch of blue sky; sad and dejected like one who has lost his way, I look at the stones and feel that for some reason I cannot avoid crossing a deep river; I see then small tugs that drag huge barges, floating beams....
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And let this be the law of our married life, if we ever are married," and he sighed, "that when we differ each should respect the other's conscience, and do right in the truest sense, by allowing the other to do the same."
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The higher graces of civilization halt among us; dainty and finished ways of living give place to common ways, while vulgar tastes, slatternly habits, clouds and despondency reign in the house.
— from Why Go to College? An Address by Alice Freeman Palmer

"Once admit that real power can and does reside in matter, and all these reasonings fail.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker