a few Cormorant, duckinmallard, butterbox, and common large geese were only to be found the tide being out this morning we found some difficulty in passing through the bay below the Cathlahmah village; this side of the river is very shallow to the distance of 4 miles from the shore tho there is a channel sufficient for canoes near S. side.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He was also on friendly terms with the chief's widow, at whose home he met, nearly every evening, his colleagues Du Bruel and Claparon.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

While these observations were being exchanged between Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Benjamin Allen; and while the boy in the gray livery, marvelling at the unwonted prolongation of the dinner, cast an anxious look, from time to time, towards the glass door, distracted by inward misgivings regarding the amount of minced veal which would be ultimately reserved for his individual cravings; there rolled soberly on through the streets of Bristol, a private fly, painted of a sad green colour, drawn by a chubby sort of brown horse, and driven by a surly-looking man with his legs dressed like the legs of a groom, and his body attired in the coat of a coachman.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Near it was a small chapel, distinguished by a cross; and a long, low brown-looking building, surrounded by something like a palisade, from which an old and dingy-looking Chilian flag was flying.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Well, well, thee canstna say but what I knowed how to make a choice when I married thee,” said Mr. Poyser, who usually settled little conjugal disputes by a compliment of this sort; “and thee wast twice as buxom as Dinah ten year ago.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

you thought nobody could dance because a certain person that shall be nameless is gone!" "I wish with all my soul," cried Sir John, "that Willoughby were among us again."
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

It came into the scullery no more; but I lay all the tenth day in the close darkness, buried among coals and firewood, not daring even to crawl out for the drink for which I craved.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The castle has completely disappeared, but a column 64 has been erected on the site in commemoration of the fact.
— from Brittany by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

These, I suppose, were the three copies which, we are informed, were sent to the capitals Damascus, Basra, and Cufa, to be in the first instance standards for the soldiers of the respective provinces.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

At the same time, it does not follow that when we find a chief deity bearing a certain name in one district, and a different name in another, that the religious rites and practices differed greatly.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

Now, to move such a slip is a thing one can do by a chance movement of the finger, and in a fraction of a second.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

An authority to be depended upon always in such matters, writes: "Pole chains should be used only on a carriage driven by the master or mistress, such as a coach, mail-phaeton, [336] or lady's phaeton; never on a carriage driven by a coachman, such as a landau, coupé, or Victoria, when straps should be used.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

[61] Adjunct Professor Eaton died of consumption at the age of twenty-three, before the end of the first year; but during the short term of his service he had, by his industry and practical knowledge, greatly improved the means of instruction in the Chemical Department by a complete reorganization of the laboratory and the procurement of much new apparatus, etc.
— from The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University by Robert Peter

Darkness had fallen, and the sea was rolling high, when the two flotillas, followed at a considerable distance by a couple of cruisers, broke off from the rest of the fleet and steamed northwards towards Port Arthur.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO. LONDON:
— from Fly Leaves by Charles Stuart Calverley