we would have Spent this day the nativity of Christ in feasting, had we any thing either to raise our Sperits or even gratify our appetites, our Diner concisted of pore Elk, So much Spoiled that we eate it thro mear necessity, Some Spoiled pounded fish and a fiew roots.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune.
— 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.

For instance, “The vast and boundless earth,” “Th’ expanse of heaven,” are rhythmical expressions; and [281] poetry is a collection of poetical expressions signifying something, containing an imitation of divine and human beings.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

STURNUS COTANA, see COCTANA COTICULA (CAUDA?), minor cuts of pork, either spareribs, pork chops, or pig’s tails COTONEA, a herb of the CUNILA family, wallwort, comfrey or black bryony COTONEUM, COTONEUS, COTONIUS, CYDONIUS, quince-apple, ℞ 163 COTULA, COTYLA, a small measure, ½ sextarius COTURNIX, quail COSTUM, COSTUS, costmary; fragrant Indian shrub, the root of burning taste but excellent flavor Court-bouillon, ℞ 37, 138 Cow-parsnips, p.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Then there would be an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, poverty, a stone about his neck, the future.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There he would have his rulers trained in all knowledge meeting in the idea of good, of which the different branches of mathematical science are but the hand-maidens or ministers; here he treats chiefly of popular education, stopping short with the preliminary sciences,—these are to be studied partly with a view to their practical usefulness, which in the Republic he holds cheap, and even more with a view to avoiding impiety, of which in the Republic he says nothing; he touches very lightly on dialectic, which is still to be retained for the rulers.
— from Laws by Plato

His notes included many corrections of printers' errors, some of which would have proved unintelligible without his aid, some small additions and notes which have been inserted in their proper places, and two longer pieces, one forming a footnote near the close of Chapter 11, the other at the end of Chapter 12, describing the probable mode of evolution of the Rhizocephala from the Cirripedia.
— from Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Müller

From this famous well J. T. Briggs, manager of the Briggs and the Gillettee Oil-Companies, shipped to Europe in 1862 the first cargo of petroleum ever sent across the Atlantic.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

'It was not merely a point, but a whole cresset of points—a cluster of points,' Ericson said, 'on every one of which I wished to have a tip of light.
— from The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

As has been already hinted in one case, the chorus of praise, ever since it made itself heard, has not been quite unchequered.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

He quotes at length from "a noble ode, called in the northern chronicles the Elogium of Hacon, by the scald Eyvynd; who, for his superior skill in poetry was called the Cross of Poets (Eyvindr Skálldaspillir), and fought in the battle which he celebrated."
— from The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby

It is thought that they were a garrison placed there by Psammetik II, King of Egypt, 593-588 B. C. This Psammetik endeavored to conquer Nubia, [553] and according to a confused statement in Josephus (Contra Apion, I, 26, 27) Rhampses (perhaps a corruption of Psammetik), employed some Jews in an expedition to that country.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

M. Say, in his 'Complete Course of Political Economy,' states, upon the authority of an English manufacturer of fifty years' experience, that, in ten years after the introduction of the machines, the people employed in the trade, spinners and weavers, were more than forty times as many as when the spinning was done by hand.
— from Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight