They are the companions and neighbors of the captain, it is said,—men who know him in his business and domestic relations, and who knew him in his early youth.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

He did return, as we know from documents in the Venetian archives; he returned as secret agent of the Inquisitors, and remained in their service from 1774 until 1782.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

As we see that in those parts of the ocean, where coral-reefs are most abundant, one island is fringed and another neighbouring one is not fringed; as we see in the same archipelago, that all the reefs are more perfect in one part of it than in another, for instance, in the southern half compared with the northern half of the Maldiva Archipelago, and likewise on the outer coasts compared with the inner coasts of the atolls in this same group, which are placed in a double row; as we know that the existence of the innumerable polypifers forming a reef, depends on their sustenance, and that they are preyed on by other organic beings; and, lastly, as we know that some inorganic causes are highly injurious to the growth of coral, it cannot be expected that during the round of change to which earth, air, and water are exposed, the reef-building polypifers should keep alive for perpetuity in any one place; and still less can this be expected, during the progressive subsidences, perhaps at some periods more rapid than at others, to which by our theory these reefs and islands have been subjected and are liable.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

When we left, the dancing resumed and was kept up till a late hour that night.
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

Jesse Lance had felt it bitterly when his handsome high-spirited youngest daughter ran away with Kimbro Cleaverage, teacher of a little mountain school, a gentle, unworldly soul who would never get on in life.
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

This kind of cheese is molded into the shape of a ball, the outside of which is usually dyed red, and will keep for a long period of time.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Odoacer, the general who deposed Romulus Augustulus, well knew that a state which had its military service all Barbarian and its civil service all Roman could not stand firm.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

He did return, as we know, but Miss Read was Miss Read no longer.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Each cattleman had his own private brand which was duly registered and was known to every other
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins