from the head of the Missouri at the 3 forks 48 miles through a leavel plain the most of the way as may be seen by the remarks in the evening after the usial delay of 3 hours to give the horses time to feed and rest and allowing our Selves time also to Cook and eate Dinner, I proceeded on down the river on an old buffalow road at the distance of 9 miles below the mountains Shield River discharges itself into the Rochejhone on it's N W. side above a high rocky Clift, this river is 35 yards wide deep and affords a great quantity of water it heads in those Snowey Mountains to the N W with Howards Creek, it contains some Timber Such as Cotton & willow in it's bottoms, and Great numbers of beaver the river also abounds in those animals as far as I have Seen.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

after Dinner I proceeded on Down the Rochejhone passing over a low ridge through a Small bottom and on the Side of a Stoney hill for 2 miles and through a Small bottom and again on the Side of a high hill for 11/2 M. to a bottom in which we Incamped opposit a Small Island.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I, too, when death is past, one day shall grasp That end I know not now; And over you will bend me down, all filled With dawn's mysterious glow.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

But he shall not be slain as another man; but men shall defend, in pain of death, that no man be so p. 190 hardy to make him company ne to speak with him, ne that no man give him, ne sell him, ne serve him, neither of meat ne of drink; and so shall he die in mischief.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

e came suddenly on a new power, asked naturally what it was; did it pull or did it push?
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

'True, Sir; all denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

[640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce considerably the quantity of work which he is capable of performing.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Drew ideal picture of D. C. on verge of tomb.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Before the final vote the opponents adjourn to a game of poker or sledge , and upon the amount of Champagne furnished on the occasion by the respective parties interested in the bill depends its passage or defeat.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

Not to lose sight of the main features of the doctrine in pursuit of details, we must pass without notice many curious and subtle thoughts of our author on this part of his subject.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

I'd need it, in de inside pocket of dat ol' coat.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

Many remedies were afforded them against delays in payment of debts, one of which was that in case it happened that several persons had been lending to anybody, they had authority to divide his body piecemeal according to the proportionate amounts that he was owing.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Towards the Colorado river it is much drier and more torrid, but by no means unhealthy; nor does it prevent out door work the whole of the day during the heated term of summer.
— from Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Sylvester Mowry

It is forbidden by the general sense of the whole passage, which explains that divorce is provocative of debauchery, and for this reason that divorce with an adulterous woman is prohibited.
— from My Religion by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Recent researches [60] have shown that “hob-nail” liver, once supposed to be due entirely to abuse of alcohol, usually occurs in states of congenital deficiency in persons of defective heredity.
— from Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot

This denomination did not differ in point of doctrine from the church of England, or from the other Puritans; but they apprehended, according to Scripture, that every church ought to be confined within the limits of a single congregation, and that the government should be democratical.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

Also the first draught in painting or drawing before it be finished.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

With him one has to dot one's i's; he is dull in perception, or does not perceive at all.
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Volume 01 by Gustave Droz