that these men became dissatisfyed with him in consequence of our having confided the horses to his care and that they were eternally quarreling with him insomuch that he thought it best as he was an old man to relinquish any further attention to the horses, that they had consequently become scattered; that most of the horses were near this place, a part were in the forks between the Chopunnish and Kooskooske rivers and three or four others were at the lodge of the broken Arm about half a days march higher up the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In the first minutes when Dorothea looked out she felt nothing but the dreary oppression; then came a keen remembrance, and turning away from the window she walked round the room.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The three owls of the Cherokee country are known, respectively, as tskĭlĭ′ (i. e., “witch,” Bubo virginianus saturatus , great, dusky-horned owl), waʻhuhu′ ( Megascops asio , screech owl), and uguku′ ( Syrnium nebulosum , hooting or barred owl).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

His fire unquenched and his undying worm By "land in severalty" (charming term!) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast!
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

These two methods of concealment are known respectively as suppressio veri and suggestio falsi , and many think them legitimate under certain circumstances: while others say that if deception is to be practised at all, it is mere formalism to object to any one mode of effecting it more than another.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

With this there came a knight riding all armed on a great horse, and took the lady away with him with force, and ever she cried and made great dole.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Ancient Egypt GREAT HALL OF COLUMNS AT KARNAK (RESTORED.) ANCIENT EGYPT BY GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A. CAMDEN PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF TURIN; AUTHOR OF "THE FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES OF THE ANCIENT EASTERN WORLD."
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

What more then delian musicke doe I heare, That calles my soule from forth his liuing seate, To moue vnto the measures of delight: Kind clowdes that sent forth such a curteous storme, As made disdaine to flye to fancies lap: Stoute loue in mine armes make thy Italy , Whose Crowne and kingdome rests at thy commande.
— from The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

As we approached we saw the bed of the river called Aub Karatch , running about S. W. which I am told takes its source in the Albores , and runs towards Kinar-à-Gird .
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

The occupant sprang lightly on shore, when a cry from her companions made her look up, and she saw a tall and handsome native, with a circlet of feathers on his head, and a cloak and kilt richly adorned, standing before her.
— from Villegagnon: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

And the king went on by turns ranging cities and kingdoms, rivers and mountains and asylums.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

Time and the progress of events brought to the Department other and more important matters than the clerical work of correspondence and keeping records, and the work not only of obtaining and preserving all manner of army supplies, but of providing for their production, led to the establishment of minor agencies, each one as it was brought into existence, adding to the functions of the Secretary of War, and giving him a superior directing authority.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3 by Chautauqua Institution

In the midst of his oration two vultures, black with white breasts, flew high over our heads, chasing a dove, which they caught and killed right above the market-place, so that the feathers fell down on the altar.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

He felt a little uneasy at having been away from the convalescent so long though he knew that John Saltram was now strong enough to get on tolerably without him, and that the people of the house were careful and kindly, ready at any moment to give assistance if it were wanted.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A week elapsed, when the post commander at Knoxville received a dispatch directing the Parson to be released from confinement, and to be taken to the nearest Federal outposts over the route most convenient to him, and under an escort of his own choice.
— from Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by William Gannaway Brownlow