Few and simple as these were, they were sufficient to furnish a safe conduct of life even through the unsafest days of the most unsettled period of our nation's history.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Set out early this morning and passed a bad rappid where the river enters the mountain about 1 m. from our camp of last evening the Clifts high and covered with fragments of broken rocks.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Compliments, on leaving England,' the lady and gentleman walked away quite deliberately, and Miss Jenny and her crutch-stick went up stairs.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold: A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, Under the countenance and confederacy Of Lady Eleanor, the Protector's wife, The ringleader and head of all this rout, Have practis'd dangerously against your state, Dealing with witches and with conjurers, Whom we have apprehended in the fact, Raising up wicked spirits from under ground, Demanding of King Henry's life and death And other of your Highness' Privy Council, As more at large your Grace shall understand.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Among the few rules without exception which in the course of long experience the criminalist may make, this is one—that the real tramps of both sexes and all walks of life will never testify conscientiously;—hic niger est, hunc Tu, Romane, caveto .
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

It deceives the eye; you think it is a new fact; it gives you the idea that the court is carrying on like everything; this excites you, and you drain the whole column, with a good appetite, and perhaps never notice that it’s a barrel of soup made out of a single bean.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

It consists of little else than the sea sand, and is about three miles long.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The Mutter came out later, evidently to keep an eye on me.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[83] Stow in his first edition says, “there practised for the crown ...;” and the admirable scene in Richard the Third (act III., sc. 7), in which Gloucester is by Buckingham, the mayor, and citizens of London, “enforced to a world of cares,” is laid by Shakspeare with great historic truth in “the court of Baynard’s castle.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The fastidious care with which each poem is built out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of language employed to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction of objective substances for a clear visualization of character and scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Shufflebotham suggests that the altered conditions of life, especially the marching and drilling, caused increased metabolism, setting free lead compounds from the muscles and organs of the body.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

I took it myself some time ago, and only wish I had been cheeky or lucky enough to get a snap-shot of the interior.
— from The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

When surrounded by a circle of live embers, the animal, so we are told, stabs itself with its sting and finds an end of its torment in voluntary death.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

the City of London earned the honourable distinction of being the only body of men in the realm who dared to resist the king's systematic abuse of the royal power.
— from The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by William Ferneley Allen

"By the craters of Luna," exploded the skipper of the passenger ship, "what's the meaning of this?
— from On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell

[2 Tim. 3:13] From the above every one will readily understand what there is in that oft quoted saying of Gregory's[80]: "A mass celebrated by a wicked priest is not to be considered of less effect than one celebrated by any godly priest, and St. Peter's mass would not have been better than Judas the traitor's, if they had offered the sacrifice of the mass.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

A change in the physical conditions of life, especially the force of habit in the use or disuse of the organs, the inheritance of physical and psychical Page 31 [31] qualities thus attained, and the extension of the process of transmutation into extraordinarily long periods of time with very slight changes, are also, in his view, the probable causes of the variation and development of the species.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

“Labor is very cheap in China, where a workman earns three halfpence a day, and this cheapness of labor enables the Chinese to manipulate each sheet of paper separately.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

By this treaty perpetual peace and amity were agreed upon between the United States, and the Iroquois, and the latter ceded to the United States, all their lands lying west of a line commencing at the mouth of a creek four miles east of Niagara, at a place on Lake Ontario called Johnson's Landing; thence south, in a direction always four miles east of the portage, or carrying-path, between Lakes Erie and Ontario, to the mouth of Buffalo creek, on Lake Erie; thence due south to the north boundary of the state of Pennsylvania; thence west to the end of said boundary; thence south along the west boundary of the state of Pennsylvania to the Ohio river.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard