Clark, September 1, 1806] Monday 1st of September 1806 Musquitors very troublesom last night, we set out at the usial hour and had not proceeded on far before the fog became So thick that we were oblige to come too and delay half an hour for the fog to pass off which it did in Some measure and we again proceded on R. Jo.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It lay some two hundred miles off, through rocks and deserts; not without great difficulty, in such mood as we may fancy, he escaped thither, and found welcome.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

" These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my capacity (which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a thing is in words related by true reporters; one, concerning the truth of the things, the other, concerning the meaning of the relater.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In brief account, the sight, enough for us now, is this: "Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail [of love] in measure, and in as much as we fail, in so much we die: for it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life.... And grace worketh our dreadful failing into plenteous, endless solace, and grace worketh our shameful falling into high, worshipful rising; and grace worketh our sorrowful dying into holy, blissful life" ( xlviii. ).
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail in measure and in as much as we fail, in so much we fall; and in as much as we fall, in so much we die: for it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

“So do I,” said master, “as well as any man, but I don't like to see them held up; that takes all the shine out of it.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Still very pale, she is dressed in slight mourning and wears two beautiful bracelets.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

To be tantalized with Images of sensual enjoyment which must be renounced if one would approximate a God, who according to the Doctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, and into whose Universe one expects unconsciously to merge after Death, without hope of any posthumous Beatitude in another world to compensate for all one's self- denial in this.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

In the foresaid desert I saw many asses (which they cal Colan) being rather like vnto mules: these did our guide and his companions chase very eagerly: howbeit, they did but lose their labour: for the beastes were too swift for them.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

Damaris Blanchard was therefore deceived in some measure, and when Will spent five shillings upon a photograph of his son, she felt that the Newtake prospects must at least be more favourable than she feared, and let the circumstance of the picture be generally known.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

This is an inferior rock which will discolor in six months and will disintegrate in five years.”
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

The Scots nobility were enthusiastic dabblers in such matters; and we have the evidence of Buchanan and Lindsay as to James IV. of Scotland, "quod vulnera scientissime tractaret," to use the former authority's words, and in the language of the latter, that he was "such a cunning chirurgeon , that none in his realm who used that craft but would take his counsel in all their proceedings."
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

“No, we can’t do it,” said Matt, and with a wink to Andrew Dilks, he pulled his companion toward the stable doors.
— from Young Auctioneers; Or, The Polishing of a Rolling Stone by Edward Stratemeyer

But gradually men of experience in war began to find their appropriate places, and in August, 1861, Grant was made brigadier-general and given command of a district including southeast Missouri and western Kentucky.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris