Small the upper large and about 2 days march up imediately parrelal to the first villages we Came to and is called by those Indians Par-nash-te on this fork a little above its mouth resides a Chief who as the Indian Say has more horses than he can Count and further Sayeth that Louises River is navagable about 60 miles up with maney rapids at which places the Indians have fishing Camps and Lodjes built of an oblong form with flat ruffs.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

C. Camel and Floating Sticks.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Hot and dry, consumes all cold swellings and blood congealed by bruises, and stripes; applied to the place, it helps that aposthume in the joints, commonly called a felon: strewed in a chamber, kills all the fleas there: this is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given inwardly: there is a milder sort, called Persicaria , which is of a cooler and milder quality, drying, excellently good for putrified ulcers, kills worms: I had almost forgot that the former is an admirable remedy for the gout, being roasted between two [239] tiles and applied to the grieved place, and yet I had it from Dr. Butler too.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

on Cyfebru, v. to gestate Cyfebrwydd, n. foal in embryo Cyfechni, n. joint security Cyfechwyn, n. joint loan Cyfedliw, n. mutual reproach Cyfeddach, n. a banquet, a festivity Cyfeiliorn, n. deviation Cyfeiliornad, n. a deviating Cyfeiliorni, v. to deviate Cyfeiliornus, a. devious, erring Cyfeiliornwr, n. a wanderer Cyfeilw, a. of the same colour Cyfeillgar, a. friendly, sociable Cyfeillgarwch, n. sociableness Cyfeilachu, v. to associate Cyfeillach, n. friendship Cyfeilio, v. to associate Cyfeiriad, n. direction Cyfeirio, v. to direct; to guide, to make towards Cyfeiriol, a. directing, leading Cyfeirnod, n. note of referenee Cyfeiryd, v. to direct, to lead Cyfeisiau, n.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

As Sir B—— M—— had placed the case in my hands I went to the bargello, an important person at Rome, and an expeditious officer when he sees a case clearly and feels sure that the plaintiffs do not mind spending their money.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The great White Horse was grey, For it was ill scoured of the weed, And lichen and thorn could crawl and feed, Since the foes of settled house and creed Had swept old works away.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Sir, putrefaction, Solution, ablution, sublimation, Cohobation, calcination, ceration, and Fixation. SUB.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

which thou vauntst to fight With that fire-mouthed Dragon, ° horrible and bright? LIII Come, come away, fraile, seely, fleshly wight, 470 Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

As a craftsman he had wonderful taste, and could copy antique furniture so that one could not tell the copy from the original.
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

_#_Exports: $14.5 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.); commodities—copra 59%, cocoa 11%, meat 9%, fish 8%, timber 4%; partners—Netherlands 34%, France 27%, Japan 17%, Belgium 4%, New Caledonia 3%, Singapore 2% (1987) _#_Imports: $58.4 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.); commodities—machines and vehicles 25%, food and beverages 23%, basic manufactures 18%, raw materials and fuels 11%, chemicals 6%; partners—Australia 36%, Japan 13%, NZ 10%, France 8%, Fiji 5% (1987) _#_External debt: $30 million (1990 est.) _#_Industrial production: growth rate NA% _#_Electricity: 17,000 kW capacity; 30 million kWh produced, 180 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: food and fish freezing, forestry processing, meat canning _#_Agriculture: export crops—copra, cocoa, coffee, and fish; subsistence crops—copra, taro, yams, coconuts, fruits, and vegetables _#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $565 million _#_Currency: vatu (plural—vatu); 1 vatu (VT) = 100 centimes _#_Exchange rates: vatu (VT) per US$1—109.62 (January 1991), 116.57 (1990), 116.04 (1989), 104.43 (1988), 109.85 (1987), 106.08 (1986), 106.03 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: calendar year _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[Pg 180] to a ceaseless change, a flux swinging from good to bad forever, an expansion and constriction against which they have no safeguards and not even any warning.
— from Mary, Mary by James Stephens

One after another of the Spanish cruisers came at full speed out of the harbour which it had been believed was closed by the hull of the Merrimac , and as each ship rounded the point her guns were discharged at the Yankee squadron.
— from Off Santiago with Sampson by James Otis

The Third General Council of Lateran, in 1179, commanded that in all cathedral churches a fund should be set aside for the foundation and support of schools for the poor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

By means of the converted spy, we can construct a false story for the death spy to carry to the enemy.
— from The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu by Qi Wu

About fifty miners assembled at the time appointed, and after a long discussion, arising from the folly of some who thought everything must be done in the same formal and cumbrous manner in which parliamentary proceedings are conducted, in more civilized communities, a few simple laws were agreed upon, Graham chosen Alcalde, and a bulky Missourian sheriff of Ford's Bar and the adjacent diggings.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

There were small, graceful turrets at each end, and a lofty belfry some two hundred and thirty feet in height in the center, containing a fine set of bells connected with the mechanism of a carillon.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards