Starting from the junction of Moccasin creek with the North fork of Holston, just above the Tennessee state line, it crosses the latter river from the east side at its mouth or junction with the South fork, just below Kingsport or the Long island; then follows down along the west side of the Holston, crossing Big creek at its mouth, and crossing to the south (east) side of Holston at Dodson’s creek; thence up along the east side of Dodson’s creek and across Big Gap creek, following it for a short distance and continuing southwest, just touching Nolichucky, passing up the west side of Long creek of that stream and down the same side of Dumplin creek, and crossing French Broad just below the mouth of the creek; thence up along the west side of Boyd’s creek to its head and down the west side of Ellejoy creek to and across Little river; thence through the present Maryville to cross Little Tennessee at the entrance of Tellico river, where old Fort Loudon was built; thence turning up along the south side of Little Tennessee river to Echota, the ancient capital, and then southwest across Tellico river along the ridge between Chestua and Canasauga creeks, and crossing the latter near its mouth to strike Hiwassee river at the town of the same name;
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

H2 anchor The Crab and Its Mother A CRAB said to her son, “Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

In the second stage, answering to the chrysalis stage of butterflies, they have six pairs of beautifully constructed natatory legs, a pair of magnificent compound eyes, and extremely complex antennae; but they have a closed and imperfect mouth, and cannot feed: their function at this stage is, to search out by their well-developed organs of sense, and to reach by their active powers of swimming, a proper place on which to become attached and to undergo their final metamorphosis.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

In the second stage, answering to the chrysalis stage of butterflies, they have six pairs of beautifully constructed natatory legs, a pair of magnificent compound eyes, and extremely complex antennae; but they have a closed and imperfect mouth, and cannot feed: their function at this stage is, to search by their well-developed organs of sense, and to reach by their active powers of swimming, a proper place on which to become attached and to undergo their final metamorphosis.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Yet some feelings, though not deeper or more passionate, are more tender than others; and often, when I walk at this time in Oxford Street by dreamy lamplight, and hear those airs played on a barrel-organ which years ago solaced me and my dear companion (as I must always call her), I shed tears, and muse with myself at the mysterious dispensation which so suddenly and so critically separated us for ever.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

It remains a patent fact, however, that the cities and towns of the valley of the Yonne give one ample proof of the close alliance in manners and customs of all mid-France of mediæval times.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"I also need his services," retorted Clarette, "and I made a contract with him before you did, as my marriage papers will prove."
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In coming away, I met a companion of mine, and he persuaded me to bolt with the money, and go to Ashley’s.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Evidently then, corals, annelids, inferior molluscs, and crustaceans of low grade, will chiefly constitute the early Fauna.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Professor Henderson shows us how well this planet, with its oceans and continents, and its mechanical and chemical forces and elements, is suited to sustain life, but he brings us no nearer the solution of the mystery than we were before.
— from The Breath of Life by John Burroughs

As it enumerated many of the clergy among its members, and could even boast of some cardinals at its head, the prince was the more easily induced to join it.
— from The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny by Friedrich Schiller

As soon as I saw Captain Armstrong I made a clean breast to him about my failure to unearth the treasure at the Bend.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

Gentlemen, I want to announce that today it will be necessary for me to spend practically all of the morning with the Supreme Court, and in my absence Congressman Ford will conduct the hearing today because he can be here practically all the time.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The sidewalks all along were being cleared, and it made a curious white wall in the street.
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas