Spoiled Elk meat, I Showed Capt L. 2 Musquetors to day, or an insect So much the Size Shape and appearance of a Musquetor that we Could observe no kind of differance.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

American restraint in this field may have been dictated in part by the fact that the war was a limited war consisting of combat only with those armed Chinese Communists on North Korean territory, but not with armed Chinese Communists elsewhere in the Far East.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

For the word Heire does not of it selfe imply the Children, or nearest Kindred of a man; but whomsoever a man shall any way declare, he would have to succeed him in his Estate.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

If, in consequence of not knowing the facts, you are not in a position to judge, neither should you believe nor condemn.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A million in gold remains; it is buried in the cellars of Newcastle Keep.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Allowing adoption into these houses, except in the case of near kindred, is assuredly an innovation; they ought to revert to the crown, failing immediate issue, as did the great estate of Bhainsrorgarh, two generations back.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Ted admonishing Tinka, “Come on now, kid; stick the lovely pink bow in your curls and beat it down to breakfast, or Goo-goo will jaw your head off.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

My horse must be like the others, but I have at least the consolation of not knowing it to be so.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In consequence, one never knew the real Uncle Tom, only a fluid, unsatisfactory flux with a more or less consistent appearance.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If this be correct, our name Knife might also come in here, parallel with Knipe, and also Knyvet as probably a diminutive.
— from Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson

She knew who had not paid for the last chapter of "Ned Kelly; or, the Iron-clad Australian Bushranger."
— from Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

No doubt the early printers and the editors whom they employed made the most of all these difficulties; yet they must have been real enough, so that, despite the affected language in which it is phrased, the colophon of Nicolas Kessler of Basel to his edition of the “Homeliarius Doctorum” may well command our sympathy.
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

“This is the consequence of not keeping a careful reckoning,” said Fairburn, as I stood beside him.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

Love, it is true, does not play the same part in marriage here as with us, for the child of nature knows nothing of the romantic, and marriages are usually decided on in the family council; they do, however, as a rule, turn out happily.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

And to this thesis, which is backed by an overwhelming mass of Greek testimony, from Herodotus to Aristotle and Plato, the critics offer no kind of answer.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

If the General had been so unluckily inspired as to show himself generous without discussion (as happens occasionally with some artless souls), he would have been a banished man forever, accused and convicted of not knowing how to love.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

However, in Masuren chaplets of nine kinds of herbs are gathered on St. John's Eve and put to a more prosaic use than that of presaging the course of true love.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer