I found the face of many of the river hills formed of Clifts of very excellent free stone of a light yellowish brown colour; on these clifts I met with a species of pine which I had never seen, it differs from the pitchpine in the particular of it's leaf and cone, the first being vastly shorter, and the latter considerably longer and more pointed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Lewis observed a Species of pine which I had never Seen, it differs from the pitch pine in the particular of its leaf and Cone, the first being partly Shorter, and the latter considerably longer and more pointed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the flesh of this bird is exceedingly fine, preferable to either the goose or pided brant.—The Brown or pided brant are much the same size and form of the white only that their wings are considerably longer and more pointed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The Brown or pieded brant are nearly the Size and much the Same form of the white brante only that their wings are considerably longer and more pointed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

as Capt. Lewis and Myself part at this place we make a division of our party and such baggage and provisions as is Souteable.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Then, all the children laughed, and Mr. Pocket (who in the meantime had twice endeavored to lift himself up by the hair) laughed, and we all laughed and were glad.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I've been turning it over in my mind,” he continued, looking at Mr. Poyser, “to make a bit more convenence at home for nice jobs o' cabinet-making.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

And, blessed maid, Of whom is meant what ever hath been said, 445 Or shall be spoken well by any tongue, Whose name refines course lines, and makes prose song, Accept this tribute, and his first yeares rent, Who till his darke short tapers end be spent, As oft as thy feast sees this widowed earth, 450 Will yearely celebrate thy second birth, That is, thy death; for though the soule of man Be got when man is made, 'tis borne but than [page 245] When man doth die; our body's as the wombe, And, as a Mid-wife, death directs it home.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Meanwhile he himself cared little about making peace, but continued steadily to prosecute his designs.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

While Miss Matty was out of the room giving orders for luncheon—and sadly perplexed between her desire of honouring my father by a delicate, dainty meal, and her conviction that she had no right, now that all her money was gone, to indulge this desire—I told him of the meeting of the Cranford ladies at Miss Pole’s the day before.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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Immediately the chief ordered the door of the house to be thrown open, in order that they might see his six hundred warriors, and he said to the Spaniards: “Christians, look at my people; it is thus they go to the Guaraní villages; go with them; they will take you there, and bring you back, for if you went alone they would kill you, knowing that you have been with me, and are my friends.”
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century

The professor heard him breathing quickly, saw him, almost as a shadow just shown by the faint light that entered from the street through the two small windows, clasp and unclasp his hands, touch his forehead, his eyelids, move in his chair, like a man profoundly stirred and unable to be at ease.
— from The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Hichens

Camors, like all men possessed by a dominant idea, had, ever since he adopted the religion of his father as his rule of life, taken the pains to analyze every impression and every thought.
— from Monsieur de Camors — Complete by Octave Feuillet

“Look here, lassie”—the old doctor ruffled his beard and threw out his chest like a mammoth pouter pigeon—“you’ll have to give us a sensible answer before we let you go one step.
— from Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer

She was a woman that brought to bear upon foolish, culpable loves a mental power that would have adorned the woolsack.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

This animated them to enter with greater vigour on clearing and cultivating lands, and making provision for their future subsistence.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

I suppose we must go,” she continued, looking at Miss Plympton, and once more opening the coach door herself.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille