these hats are of their own manufactory and are Composed of Cedar bark and bear grass interwoven with the fingers and ornimented with various Colours and figures, they are nearly water proof, light, and I am Convinced are much more dureable than either Chip or Straw,—These hats form a article of traffic with Clatsops an Chinnooks who dispose of them to the whites, the form of the Hats is that which was in voge in the U States and Great Britain in 1800 & 1801 with a high Crown rather larger at the top than where it joins the brim, the brim narrow about 2 or 21/2 inches.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Then Triśirás, as up he sprang, Drew his great bow with awful clang, And fixed three arrows from his sheaf Full in the forehead of the chief.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

To reconcile his inconsistencies would be contrary to the first principles of criticism and fatal to any true understanding of him.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In fact, I triumphed, while my lady remained firmly convinced that she was innocent, chaste, and faithful to all her duties and obligations and had succumbed quite by accident.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Only we wished to be away, away from the City and from the air that touches upon the air of the City.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

In the reign of Claudius an embassy arrived from Taprobane (Ceylon); and from these ambassadors Pliny derived his information regarding the island, N.H. vi. 24.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

These governors of old time (saith Robert Fabian), with the laws and customs then used within this city, were registered in a book called the Dooms’ day, written in the Saxon tongue; but of later days, when the said laws and customs were changed, and for that also the said book was of a small hand, sore defaced, and hard to be read or understood, it was less set by, so that it was embezzled and lost.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In that way I’ve collected twelve cuartos, and for that alone I’m going to play with her.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

In this case, as frequently, the alleviation of symptoms preceded the gain in weight.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

It was still thundering at a distance: a soft rain was pouring down over the country, and filled the air around us with delicious odours.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This method, called polyphony, requiring great skill in the composer and close attention from the audience, is illustrated by such masterpieces as a fugue of Bach, a string quartet of Beethoven, or the famous passage at the end of Wagner's Meistersinger Overture, where four themes are driven abreast as in some proud chariot.
— from Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason

Guildford Keep stands at this day in gardens belonging to the Corporation, and free to all.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Mrs. Gascoigne and Anna, who always made papa their model, really did not miss anything they cared about for themselves, and in all sincerity felt that the saddest part of the family losses was the change for Mrs. Davilow and her children.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

But Big Smith calmly ignored them all, and every night when the study hour was about half done would appear, and with his unmoved and benign countenance ask for the aid which Ward never refused him now.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

They swept round it in a circle, a few times, and coming up with a halt, and forming themselves abreast, they rocked up and down from head to tail, as they surveyed the thing.
— from The Puddleford Papers; Or, Humors of the West by Henry Hiram Riley

In fact, some of the higher animals develop in this connection a finer taste and judgment than man himself.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

[Pg 180] The purchaser forms a quick opinion of the stand from the way in which it is conducted and from the appearance of the one who is there to make sales.
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

The first men were the littoral and mountainous inhabitants of warmer countries, and found therefore at once reptiles, fishes, fruit, and game for food.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

But she was consoled at finding the abbey far too poor to indulge in all the expensive amusements of Maubuisson, and that it contained only thirteen nuns, so that Angélique would not have so many people to govern.
— from The Red Book of Heroes by Mrs. Lang

It is not our custom to seek business by the channel of continued advertisements, but we feel it to be our duty through the present opportunity to thank the Civil and Military Services of India, as well as many others, for the confidence they have been pleased to place in our management, when entrusted with their commands, and, further, to assure them that our effort to please, which has hitherto secured to us so large a portion of their patronage and support, will be energetically continued, and that our constant endeavour is to execute every commission entrusted to our care with promptness and fidelity.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839