the neck Short, the head is formed much like the Common fist dog only that the Skull is more Convex, the mouth is wide and furnishid with long Sharp teeth, both above and below, and with four Sharp Streight Pointed tushes, two in the upper and two in the lower jaw.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

CXLI With regard to physical love and, in fact, physical pleasure, the disposition of the two sexes is not the same.
— from On Love by Stendhal

the head is formed much like the common fist dog only that the skull is more convex.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The eyes of the world are turned for that example to us.... Let us, then, as we assemble on the birthday of the nation, as we gather upon the green turf, once wet with precious blood—let us devote ourselves to the sacred cause of constitutional liberty!
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The Duke of Thunder The Spirit of Thunder, for whom Lei Tsu is often mistaken, is represented as an ugly, black, bat-winged Page 200 demon, with clawed feet, monkey’s head, and eagle’s beak, who holds in one hand a steel chisel, and in the other a spiritual hammer, with which he beats numerous drums strung about him, thus producing the terrific noise of thunder.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Till the fiery star, which is its eye, Gazed through the clear dew on the tender sky; And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows; And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

I soon became acquainted with a good many people of fashion, and spent my time in the modish diversions of the town, such as plays, operas, masquerades, drums, assemblies, and muppet-shows; chiefly in company with Melinda, whom I cultivated with all the eagerness and address that my prospect could inspire, and my education afford.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Varro is of opinion, that when it was ordained we should be bare in the presence of the gods and before the magistrate, it was so ordered rather upon the score of health, and to inure us to the injuries of weather, than upon the account of reverence; and since we are now talking of cold, and Frenchmen used to wear variety of colours (not I myself, for I seldom wear other than black or white, in imitation of my father), let us add another story out of Le Capitaine Martin du Bellay, who affirms, that in the march to Luxembourg he saw so great frost, that the munition-wine was cut with hatchets and wedges, and delivered out to the soldiers by weight, and that they carried it away in baskets: and Ovid, “Nudaque consistunt, formam servantia testae, Vina; nec hausta meri, sed data frusta, bibunt.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The wide-awake day of a people mystically excitable, let us say of the earlier Greeks, is in fact through the continually-working [Pg 189] wonder, which the mythos presupposes, more akin to the dream than to the day of the thinker sobered by science.
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

However, the clergy embraced the favourable opportunity, and prevailed upon the king to suffer a bill to be brought into parliament, by which all Lollards who remained obstinate, should be delivered over to the secular power, and burnt as heretics.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

A boat-jetty running out into five-foot water, and only approachable for half the day owing to the surf, and, as I hear, for months not approachable at all.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I do not mean to say that relatives may not be disparate, or that the science of health is healthy, or of disease necessarily diseased, or that the sciences of good and evil are therefore good and evil; but only that, when the term science is no longer used absolutely, but has a qualified object which in this case is the nature of health and disease, it becomes defined, and is hence called not merely science, but the science of medicine.
— from The Republic by Plato

The discovery of the true structure of hill banks had to be made by Turner, not merely in advance of the men of his day, but in contradiction to them.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

"And you, captain," (here he turned his great, benevolent eyes toward me,) "whom the pope has invested with the powers of commander until the arrival of their regular chief, consider in the goodness of your heart the devotion of these true sons of Ireland,
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

As she was utterly devoid of true tenderness, so also was she devoid of conscience.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

But—and usually—the "general utility" invitation ( see page 118 ) is filled in, as follows: To meet Miss Millicent Gilding Mrs. Toplofty requests the pleasure of Miss Rosalie Gray's company at the Theater and at a dance on Tuesday the sixth of January at 8:15 R.s.v.p.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

" Johnnie Jones drove on to the shop and then back home, but he was so angry with Charley that he would not let him ride any further.
— from All About Johnnie Jones by Carolyn Verhoeff

The answer they received, stated "that the advances made to Pursers are by warrants drawn on the Treasury, sometimes by Navy agents," &c. We inquired, said he, what were their emoluments, other than those allowed by law?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress