Deep at 6 miles, Willards Creek the bottoms narrow, the Clifs of a Dark brown
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It was a dark-browed man who put the question; he had an evasive eye, which in the course of a dozen years had looked no mortal directly in the face.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

you are much better than a cat or a dog, for you can speak."
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But when the prince descends to the narrow and peevish character of a disputant, he is easily provoked to supply the defect of argument by the plenitude of power, and to chastise without mercy the perverse blindness of those who wilfully shut their eyes against the light of demonstration.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Again a concept based on experience of the physical purposiveness of nature could furnish no adequate proof for morality, or consequently for cognition of a Deity.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The character of Antigonus Doson, who was then administering Macedonia, gave some encouragement to hope for honest and honourable conduct on his part; and after some hesitation Aratus took the final step of asking for his aid.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Without further preface, I at once read the narrative of the conspiracy, describing it in clear outline, and dwelling only upon the pecuniary motive for it, in order to avoid complicating my statement by unnecessary reference to Sir Percival's secret.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A Man has frequent Opportunities of mitigating the Fierceness of a Party; of doing Justice to the Character of a deserving Man; of softning the Envious, quieting the Angry, and rectifying the Prejudiced; which are all of them Employments suited to a reasonable Nature, and bring great Satisfaction to the Person who can busy himself in them with Discretion.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Deft Fersen dashes obliquely Northward, through the country, towards Bougret; gains Bougret, finds his German Coachman and chariot waiting there; cracks off, and drives undiscovered into unknown space.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Nine hundred and ninety-nine women out of a thousand are more interested in the cut of a dress than in the independence of their sex; nine hundred and nine-nine men out of a thousand are more interested in drinking a glass of beer than in questioning the tax that is laid on it; how many children are not willing to trade the liberty to play for the promise of a new cap or a new dress?
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

My own opinion is that they are taken there in small companies, and passed in under the charge of a dead policeman.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Chiácc o , a drawing or lettise window, a tooting, prying or lurking hole.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

"A little bit of pigeon-pie, or a mouthful of cheese, or a drop of stout to wind up with," persisted Mrs. Kershaw.
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander

For instance, as comparative philology has shown, the Hindoo is of the same race as his English conqueror, and individual instances have abundantly shown that if he could be placed completely and exclusively in the English environment (which, as before stated, could be thoroughly done only by placing infants in English families in such a way that neither they, as they grow up, nor those around them, would be conscious of any distinction) one generation would be all required to thoroughly implant European civilization.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

“By a strict system of reports, coming from every missionary in charge of a district through his bishop to the metropolitan bishop at Chung Ching, the affairs of the mission are administered with the regularity of a well-organized government.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He knew that his little cockleshell of a dinghy could not possibly live in such weather, and that it would be suicidal to lower her and attempt a rescue.
— from Boat Sailing in Fair Weather and Foul, 6th ed. by A. J. (Ahmed John) Kenealy

They built a bridge, crossed over at dawn, and the following day leaped from their saddles before Lee's headquarters and reported.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

The children of a deceased brother were not admitted to the succession along with ascendants and surviving brothers and sisters.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord