Padre Blanco says that the natives use a decoction of camias and unthreshed rice in diarrhœa and bilious colic.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

at Sunset the 3 remaining Canoes arrived unloaded & returned imeadeately with orders to flote down to Camp at the portage to night for the purpose of takeing up the remaining baggage.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Burn all combustible garbage in your camp fire; place tin cans and unburnable residue in garbage cans.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

But you, Sue, are such a phantasmal, bodiless creature, one who—if you'll allow me to say it—has so little animal passion in you, that you can act upon reason in the matter, when we poor unfortunate wretches of grosser substance can't."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Whenever you may feel that you can point out to me a single institution in our family or our public life which does not call for complete and unsparing rejection, I shall be pleased to accept your view."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Sickness raged in the crowded and underground rooms in which shelter was sought against the constant musketry, and death had reaped a harvest among the gallant and unyielding few who had so long held that almost untenable post.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

To cross an unfordable river in the face of a vastly superior enemy, at a distance of 150 miles from all support, would, he felt, be a most hazardous undertaking.
— from Rulers of India: Lord Clive by G. B. (George Bruce) Malleson

Twice he started from the spot, determined, evidently, to shut away the crowding and unpleasant recollections it recalled to him, twice he returned to it, to carefully, if with evident repugnance, make closer study of some detail of its rugged picturesquene
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey

There were dirty little children as usual rolling in the gutter or sitting stolidly on the kerb-stone; as usual, haggard, wrinkled, vicious faces were looking out of the dusty windows above, and an air of joylessness, weariness, and struggle hung over all.
— from Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

[67] The complicated elements of Mind, No longer dim, confused, and undefined, Rolled into order, and the springs of thought Became then less obscure, and less remote.
— from Poems by William Anderson

It was always represented as a meritorious act in old revolutionary reminiscences, to have killed one of them in the border wars, and thus aided in ridding the land of a cruel and unnatural race, in whom all feelings of pity, justice, and mercy, were supposed to be obliterated.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

These forces operating on both sides of every ridge [58] rapidly pull down its crest and ultimately round it off and reduce it lower and lower continually, so that it is only a question of time for the biggest mountain mass to be lowered to the level of the plains around it.
— from The Alps by Conway, William Martin, Sir

Although the mineral resources of the country are undoubtedly rich, its future wealth will come, if peace can ever be made permanent, from the development of the agricultural and timber lands.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

When he supposes himself betrayed by his wife and his friend he clutches, as Ulrici remarks (I., 404), with the blind despair of a shipwrecked man to his sole remaining property— honor : "His honor, as he thinks, demands the sacrifice of the lives of Desdemona and Cassio.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck