Due west to a point Stard 3 miles good water (I joined the Boat theis morning with a fat Bear & two Deer, last evining I Struck the river about 6 miles (by land) abov the Boat, and finding it too late to get to the Boat, and the wind blowing So hard Down the river that She could not assend, I concluded to Camp, altho I had nothing but my hunting Dress, & the Musquitors Ticks & Knats verry troublesom, I concid to hunt on a Willow Isd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Pero hoy día la enseñanza industrial se va dignificando en algunos países, en donde pueden verse institutos tan bien equipados y dirigidos como las buenas manual training high schools de los Estados Unidos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Everywhere there were circumscribed spots to which access was denied on account of some divine law, except in special circumstances.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The young when born differ little except in size from their parents, and are cared for with much solicitude by the mother, who carries them around with her for some time, hanging by their pincers to her body.
— from Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 by Ernest Ingersoll

Around us in a semi-circle swarmed the savages, each behind his protecting tree—thus forming a defensive line equal in strength to a fortified intrenchment.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

The hours of this long, weary day had appeared to be as many months; and when I ruminated on former scenes, and their dear little events, I sighed in bitterness, "What a time ago all this seems!"
— from Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.

The Palpi (Pl. 26 , fig. 6 ) differ little, except in size, in the different genera, being squarish, more or less elongated, or even approaching to club-shaped: in most of the Balaninæ they are larger even than the mandibles, of which they normally form a part.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

He held at the time of his death landed estates in some ten parishes of Leicestershire, between Sheepshead on the east and and Coleorton three miles away on the west, and scattered over some seven miles north and south between Belton and Normanton.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

Until comparatively recent years English sculptors have failed to appreciate this public taste, and the public work all through our country has been deplorably lacking either in sentiment or art.
— from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous