we also met with the large hooting Owl under the Rocky mountains on the Kooskooske R. it's Colour reather deeper than with us, but differ in no other respect from those of the U States.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Latinos; sed pietate, ac religione, atque hâc unâ sapientiâ, quod Deorum immortalium numine omnia regi, gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes, nationesque superavimus.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

[143] In the original the words are: quod iis qui jam magistratu abissent, privatisque, si vis abesset , &c., i. e. who differed in no other respect from mere private citizens, except that they had recourse to violence, which it was competent for the magistrate only to do.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

That duty implied not only resistance to evil, but hatred of it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

That medals are "decorations" is not officially recognised, with the exception, perhaps, of the Jubilee medal, the Diamond Jubilee medal, and the Coronation medal, which have been given a status more of the character of a decoration than of simple medals.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But what is this defense if not one romance on the top of another?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"They like to see you, as the dame in Goody Two Shoes , open a night club on the strict understanding that it is only for clergymen's daughters in need of recreation?"
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various

A more dastardly, cowardly, unmanly deed is not on record in all human literature, yet the instigator of it, Odysseus, is always the "wise," "royal," "princely," "good," and "godlike," and there is not the slightest hint that the great poet views his assassination of the poor maidens as the act of a ruffian, an act the more monstrous and unpardonable because Homer (XXII., 37) makes Odysseus himself say to the suitors that they outraged his maids by force ([Greek: biaios]).
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

He said that twenty-five was the year of discretion, if not of reason.
— from Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon

Mr. H. Lee , from the committee to whom was referred the several propositions made commemorative of the services of George Washington , reported a bill for the erection of a mausoleum, differing in no other respects from the former bill reported, except as to the materials of which the mausoleum is to be constructed; the present bill directing it to be made of stone, the former one directing it to be made of marble.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

This bastard was charitable and pious because he knew his soul, conceived in double sin, to be doubly evil, and therefore doubly in need of redemption through good works.
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

Another and popular pendant from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which is frequently cited in inventories, but now rarely met with, takes the form of a small circular box or capsule bearing in front an Agnus Dei in niello or repoussé, surrounded by a corded edging.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

"The chevalier is no doubt in need of rest," said my brother; "we will go and see Madame de Farcy, and then he shall come back to dine and sleep."
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Phil Robinson’s opinion of the call of the red turtle dove is not on record; this is unfortunate, for, assuredly, [175] it would be a document worthy to be placed side by side with Mr. Lloyd George’s invective against the House of Lords!
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar