this bird is common to this piny country are also found in the rockey mountains on the waters of the columbia river or woody side of those mountains, appear to frequent the highest sumits of those mountains as far as they are covered with timber.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But, by and by, she was struck with an unusual heaving among the mass of people in the crowded road on which she was entering.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

From this demand springs a third species or phase of Intuitionism, which, while accepting the morality of common sense as in the main sound, still attempts to find for it a philosophic basis which it does not itself offer: to get one or more principles more absolutely and undeniably true and evident, from which the current rules might be deduced, either just as they are commonly received or with slight modifications and rectifications.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Or, as a modern Florentine critic interprets the gesture, he has to think a moment before he can remember on which side the Alighieri ranged themselves—they being of the small gentry, while he was a great noble, But this gloss requires Dante to have been more free from pride of family than he really was.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

[A; c6] rinse off, wash s.t. to eat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

One size of shipping case, instead of three, may be used to hold exactly the same number of pounds of coffee, regardless of whether shipped in one-pound, half-pound, or quarter-pound cartons.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This old Scotsman, the only white man allowed to reside in the country at the time, was a privileged friend of the chief ruler of Wajo States, who was a woman.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The objects must of course resemble each other in certain respects, otherwise we should not think of classing them together; and they must also differ in certain respects, otherwise we should not distinguish between them.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

A deep sentiment envelopes his heart, the countless roots of which sink into it in all directions.
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz

A long discussion took place in my uncles' study—I have to shift the apostrophe of possession—as to whether John ought to compel restitution of what she might have wrongfully spent or otherwise appropriated.
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

Nature allows to growing lads a certain range of wickedness, sans peur et sans reproche .
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

She had no clear recollection of what she had said, as she had been very drowsy at the time; but she had remembered that he had been out for a moonlight run in the car, and she believed she had asked whether he had had a good run, and what time it was.
— from The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley