the rock of the clifts this evening is a hard black grannite like that of the clifts of most parts of the river below the limestone clifts at the 3 forks of the Missouri this evening just before we encamped Drewyer discovered a brown bear enter a small cops of bushes on the Lard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" "What do you suppose, then?" "I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope." "
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Your problem may be the cable, your choice of modem port, or the modem setup.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

A criticism one might pass on the last phase of the Saga is the complaint that Irene and Jolyon those rebels against property—claim spiritual property in their son Jon.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

I had carried her to a play, but she not being fit to go abroad, I to the office, where all the afternoon close examining the collection of my papers of the accounts of the Navy since this war to my great content, and so at night home to talk and sing with my-wife, and then to supper and so to bed with great pleasure.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

These were the results of my interview with Mrs. Catherick—these were the various considerations, all steadily converging to one point, which decided the course of my proceedings on the next day.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

For the Errors of the Rays arising from the spherical Figures of Object-glasses, are as the Cubes of the Apertures of the Object Glasses; and thence to make Telescopes of various Lengths magnify with equal distinctness, the Apertures of the Object-glasses, and the Charges or magnifying Powers ought to be as the [Pg 101] Cubes of the square Roots of their lengths; which doth not answer to Experience.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

p. 285) mention a commentary of Michael Psellus on twenty-four plays of Menander, still extant in Ms. at Constantinople.
— 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

Epameinondas, whom all men know to have been born and to have passed his life in the greatest possible poverty, and Plato the philosopher, both exhibited excellent choruses, the former bearing the expense of a chorus of men playing on the flute, while the [Pg 68] latter exhibited a cyclic
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Two intelligent and enterprising men, Don Antonio Santos and Captain Bareto, had established, with the aid of the Miquiritares, a chain of military posts on this line from Esmeralda to the Rio Erevato.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

"I'll pick my men," cried Salt sharply, and his steady weapon emphasised his choice, one man passing on through the iron doorway, the other turning sharp from the insistent barrel to push his way back into the crowd with a bitter imprecation.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

In 1564, the Córtes of Monzon pointed out the failure of all attempts to instruct the converts, who were punished for their ignorance, and they made some remedial suggestions.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

In the course of my presentation of the Nazi exhortations to the Japanese to war against the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R., I have referred to some documents and quoted some sentences relating to the United States.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

They are generally two stories in height, with walls eighteen inches to two feet or more in thickness, composed of mud plastered on to a frame-work of great strength and solidity.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

And, as an established corporation, she relies on the lazy conservatism of mental possession; on the dislike felt by the comfortable classes towards the trouble of thought and the disturbance of feeling, and their usual willingness to hand over these operations to the prayer-book and the priest.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

McDuffie's Amendment — McDuffie's Doctrine that the Producers of Exports Pay Finally the Duties on the Imports — The Acceptance of Mr. McDuffie's Doctrine at the South — Growing Belief in the Incapacity of Slave Labor for Manufacture — The Tariff Pronounced Unconstitutional — Growth of the Protection Idea — Jackson on the Tariff and the Surplus Revenue Derived therefrom, in the Message of December, 1830 — Southern Disappointment — "The South Carolina Exposition" — Calhoun's Doctrine of "States' rights" — Nullification in Theory — The Nullification and Anti-nullification Parties in South Carolina — First Attempt to try the Validity of the Tariff in the United States Courts — Nullification and Rebellion — Jackson's Message of December, 1831, on the Tariff Issue — The Bill from the Committee on Ways and Means — The Tariff Bill of 1832 from the Committee on Manufactures — Passage of the Tariff of 1832 by the House of Representatives — The "American System." Jackson's ideas concerning internal improvements.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess