Our merchindize is reduced to a mear handfull, and our Comfort, dureing our return next year, much depends on it, it is therefore almost unnecessary to add that it is much reduced The nativs in this neighbourhood are excessively fond of Smokeing tobacco.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For, says he, the senses are devoid of reason, nor are they capable of receiving any impressions of memory.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

To accomplish the great desideratum of �rial navigation, it was very generally supposed that some exceedingly complicated application must be made of some unusually profound principle in dynamics.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Nourrisson, who, during the time of Louis Philippe, made a pretence of business more or less dubious on rue Neuve-Saint-Marc.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Only when this basic, iron rule is involved is our defense of right nation-wide and prompt.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Perhaps in this age the traditions of the Pharisees had obliged the Jews to this degree of rigor, not only as to these thirty days' preparation, but as to the going barefoot all that time, which here Bernice submitted to also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I hold one view about this matter, and Leo holds another, and finally, after much discussion, we have come to a compromise, namely, to send the history to you, giving you full leave to publish it if you think fit, the only stipulation being that you shall disguise our real names, and as much concerning our personal identity as is consistent with the maintenance of the bona fides of the narrative.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

As far as a young man of anxious temperament could see, no one in Washington was fitted for his duties; or rather, no duties in March were fitted for the duties in April.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

A hero never vaunts in vain, Like bellowing clouds devoid of rain, Nor, Monarch, be thine ear inclined To counsellors of slavish kind, Who with mean arts their king mislead And mar each gallant plan and deed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In the spirit of that benevolence we sent a gentleman to beseech the Directory of regicide not to be quite so prodigal as their republic had been of judicial murder.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

Increase of Density Volumes at Densities of Respective Nebulæ Name.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

If praise, well-merited praise, could have made Leon vain, he must have been elated when a few days later his mother-in-law said with an accent of perfect sincerity: “It is strange but very certain, my dear son, that a man may have a warm good heart with a head absolutely devoid of religious notions.”
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

nothing's like to the remembrance Of what it is to have deliverance From death and hell, which is of due our right, Nothing, I say, like this to work delight In holy things; this like live honey runs, And needs no pressing out of honey-combs.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

"But in continuing to do so, you are neither acting according to the dictates of reason nor true religion.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

Apparently you have not allowed yourself to be alarmed by the threatened distaste of readers; nor indeed am I. Can we silence the doubts which disturb us?
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce

“Not a day, or rather not even a night,” said D’Artagnan, displaying the second order of the king, “for now, dear M. de Baisemeaux, you will have the goodness to transcribe also this order for setting the comte immediately at liberty.”
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

He does not say, as a sentimentalist would have said, "Not the slightest cloud ever darkened our relations;" nor does he exaggerate his solitude.
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett