in the early part of the day after he left me the hills were so steep that he gained but little off us; in the evening he passed over a mountain by which means he cut off many miles of the river's circuitous rout; the Indian road which he pursued over this mountain is wide and appears as if it had been cut down or dug in many places; he passed two streams of water, the branches of Ordway's creek, on which he saw a number of beaver dams succeeding each other in close order and extending as far up those streams as he could discover them in their couse towards the mountains.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[162] His wife, whose name was Mistress Isabetta, [163] a woman, yet young, of eight-and-twenty to thirty years of age, fresh and fair and plump as a lady-apple, kept, by reason of the piety and belike of the age of her husband, much longer and more frequent fasts than she could have wished, and when she would have slept or maybe frolicked with him, he recounted to her the life of Christ and the preachments of Fra Nastagio or the Complaint of Mary Magdalene or the like.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Certes, none. Sophronia, then, is well and duly married to Titus Quintius Fulvus, a noble, rich and long-descended citizen of Rome and a friend of Gisippus; wherefore whoso complaineth or maketh moan of this doth not that which he ought neither knoweth that which he doth.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

AT APPOMATTOX WHERE GENERAL LEE'S SURRENDER TOOK PLACE FAC-SIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL TERMS OF LEE'S SURRENDER AS WRITTEN BY GENERAL GRANT MAP OF THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY OF MOBILE MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR-1861 TO 1865 CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

--Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, on the Bridge of Montereau, in 1419.--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chronicles" of Monstrelet, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the Library of the Arsenal of Paris.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

-- Amende honorable of Jacques Coeur before Charles VII.--Fac-simile of a Miniature of the "Chroniques" of Monstrelet, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the National Library of Paris.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

into Paris.--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chroniques" of Monstrelet, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Imperial Library of Paris).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

There are nine cases of murder, most of them of ancient date; five duel cases, beginning with Lord Mohun and terminating with the Earl of Cardigan; two trials for bigamy, (Beau Fielding and the Duchess of Kingston;) two parricides, and sundry brawls.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various

He wears the winged cap of Mercury, messenger of the gods, for electricity is the messenger of modern days.
— from The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry

The signs of the Indians appear to consist of motions more often than of positions—a fact enhancing the difficulty both of their description and illustration—and the motions when not designedly abbreviated are generally large, free, and striking, seldom minute.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

One of them, that took care of me most of the time, why, she would even set up half the night with me, and I couldn't begin to tell you how good-natured she was, an' she'd look real sorry too.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

Whether you choose Cervantes’ serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais’ easy chair, Or praise the court, or magnify mankind, Or thy grieved country’s copper chains unbind.”
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2 by Blanche McManus

He was uneasily conscious that he ought, in the dread of college anathema, to use the former, but he loved the many-syllabled crash or modulated music of the latter.
— from The Claim Jumpers: A Romance by Stewart Edward White

The scandalous conduct of many "men of the cloth," in the realm of moral turpitude, often ends in murder.
— from An Atheist Manifesto by Joseph Lewis

It is a journey in a wagon lit , one is half asleep all the time; it has no longer the picturesque incidents of a journey on horseback across moor and mountain, with the chance of meeting Malatesta or the Balafré en route.'
— from Othmar by Ouida

Lack of time for experiment, and the fact that the observers were averse to introducing untested methods into a chain of measurements most of the links of which were already completed, prevented any use being made of this achievement.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various