Side about 20 yards wide, which does not run, we also passd 7 Islands, I walked on Shore and killed a female Ibex or big horn animal in my absence Drewyer & Bratten killed two others, this animale is a species peculiar to this upper part of the Missouri, the head and horns of the male which Drewyer killed to day weighed 27 lbs it was Somewhat larger than the Mail of the Common Deer;) The body reather thicker deeper and not So long in proportion to its hight as the common Deer; the head and horns of the male are remarkably large Compared with the other parts of the animal; the whole form is much more delicate than that of the common goat, and there is a greater disparity in the Size of the mail and female than between those of either the deer or goat.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Well, there was nothing left to do but kill the manager and burn down the laundry.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Philosophy defined by Kant: " The science of the limitations of reason "!!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Conquest, lady, should soften the heart,” answered De Bracy; “let me but know that the Lady Rowena forgives the violence occasioned by an ill-fated passion, and she shall soon learn that De Bracy knows how to serve her in nobler ways.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Seeing then how many particulars are in our day becoming known of that part of the world concerning which Messer Marco has written, I have deemed it reasonable to publish his book, with the aid of several copies written (as I judge) more than 200 years ago, in a perfectly accurate form, and one vastly more faithful than that in which it has been heretofore read.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I wanted to lie down, but knew I could not rise again.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Simpleton married the youngest and sweetest princess, and after her father's death became King, and his two brothers received the two other sisters.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

My daughter is by law not my daughter, but Karenin’s.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Before this, when those laws were in force, Sparta was like a wise and practised warrior more than a city, or rather, she with her simple staff and cloak, like Herakles with his lion-skin and club, ruled over a willing Greece, deposed bad kings or factions, decided wars, and crushed revolutions; and that, too, often without moving a single soldier, but merely by sending a commissioner, who was at once obeyed, even as bees collect and rank themselves in order when their queen appears.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

But this is not a reason for making a divorce between knowledge and conduct, but for holding in low esteem this kind of knowledge.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Always thinking he's at death's door, but keeps up a fine appetite.
— from The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Besides this murder at Scythopolis, the other cities rose up against the Jews that were among them: those of Askelon slew two thousand five hundred, and those of Ptolemais two thousand, and put not a few into bonds; those of Tyre also put a great number to death, but kept a greater number in prison; moreover, those of Hippos and those of Gadara did the like, while they put to death the boldest of the Jews, but kept those of whom they were most afraid in custody; as did the rest of the cities of Syria according as they every one either hated them or were afraid of them.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

This service, of which the state has continued so obstinately ignorant, consists mainly in having invented filibustering, and in having brought duelling into disgrace by killing Hamilton.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Titianus was ill; still he was glad once more to see the ill-fated palace-steward’s pretty daughter; he listened to her story of her flight with many signs of disapprobation, but kindly withal, and expressed the warmest satisfaction at hearing that the sculptor Pollux was still in the land of the living.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

Then set it a cooling as you do Beer; and when it is cold, take some very good Ale-barm, and put it into the bottom of the Tub you mean the Metheglin shall work in, which pour into the Tub by little and little, as they do Beer, keeping back the thick settling, which lieth in the bottome of the vessels, wherein it is cooled.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

Dr. Brinton is inclined to dispute this conclusion, though I am led to believe that Dr. Mason is right; for had this simple musical device been known anciently in this country, it would have spread so widely that its pre-Columbian use would have been beyond any contention.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various