in the head of this valley we passed a large bog covered with tall grass and moss in which were a great number of springs of cold pure water, we now turned a little to the left along the foot of the high hills and arrived at a small branch on which we encamped for the night, having traveled in different directions about 20 Miles and about 10 from the camp of last evening on a direct line.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Thier das andre auf —Destructive is the course of life; ever one animal eats up another.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on ginger-nuts.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

But internally it burned so that the patient could not bear to have on him clothing or linen even of the very lightest description; or indeed to be otherwise than stark naked.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Community of race is a far deeper bond than community of language, education, or government.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Civilization, we may say, had caused the horses to degenerate, but nobody will contend that the horse is not more intelligent than the zebra, more capable of love, even of thought.
— from The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George

Chamberlayne states that in 1667 no less than 1,522,781 barrels of beer were brewed in the city of London, each of them containing from 32 to 36 gallons, and that the amount yearly brewed in London had since risen to nearly 2,000,000 barrels; and that the excise for London was farmed out for 120,000 l. a year.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

THE GREAT TRIUMPH AND THE SHADOW For years Germany had gossiped over the so-called 'Persian Court' of Leopold Eberhard of Wirtemberg, Duke of Mömpelgard.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

"Well, honey," she said at last, thoughtfully and hesitatingly, "if folks could only love each other the [168] way me and Abram did, they'll never want to part; and of course if they love each other they'll trust each other; and if the love and the trust runs short, why, then they ought to be patient and try to bear with each other's failin's.
— from The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

More than half-persuaded, as she was, of the truth of much that she had told her brother, strenuously as she had nourished the few facts she was in possession of, till she had made them yield a double crop of inferences, she was yet conscious of large exaggerations of what she knew, and of huge additions to what she believed to be probabilities, and had delivered as facts.
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

"Do you mean that Mr. Ashton called on Lord Ellingham, or what?" "No, sir, because Lord Ellingham wasn't there—he scarcely ever is there," replied Lucy Summers.
— from The Middle of Things by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

But if we imagine this great chain of life extending over periods of [116] enormous duration in comparison with the short span of human history, presenting to the naturalist hosts of strange forms which he could scarcely have imagined in his dreams, we may understand how exciting have been these discoveries crowded within the lives of two generations of geologists.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

The tree stands decked in its canopy of leaves, every one of which is ready and eager to assume the responsibilities it faces.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

The extreme conditions of life existing on these lofty plateaus are well shown by the readiness with which even the hardy shepherds avail themselves of shelter.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman