the countrey on both Sides butifull no appearances of either Coal or pumice Stone & burnt hills, The Salts of Tarter or white aprs.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A delightfull morning set out at an early hour and proceeded on very well, imployed the chord principally; the shores are abbrupt and bould and composed of a black and yellow clay; see no extensive collection of pure sand, the bars are composed black mud and a small poportion of fine sand; the courant still pretty strong.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

By the Madras Salt Act, 1889, it is enacted that any person who— ( a ) removes any salt without or in excess of the permits necessary by this Act; or ( b ) except for agricultural or building purposes, excavates, collects or possesses salt-earth in any local area where it is contraband salt; or [ 234 ] ( c ) manufactures contraband salt in any other way than by excavating or collecting salt-earth; or ( d ) purchases, obtains, possesses, sells or weighs contraband salt other than salt-earth, knowing or having reason to believe it to be contraband; or ( e ) refines saltpetre without such license as is prescribed by the Act; or ( f ) attempts to commit, or within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code abets the commission of any of the above acts, shall on conviction be punishable for every such offence with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or with both.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Sustained chords and those entailing change of position should occur preferably when the voice is silent, thus permitting both conductor and orchestra to keep a closer watch over the singer's irregularities of rhythm in a piacere recitatives.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

You know not—cannot know—happily wanting The sad experience on which knowledge grows, How the too early consciousness of power Spoils the best blood; nor whether for your long Constrain'd disheritance (which, but for me, Remember, and for my relenting love Bursting the bond of fate, had been eternal)
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Though money, either coin or paper, serves generally as the deed of assignment, both to the smaller and to the more considerable portion, it is itself altogether different from what is assigned by it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The report of the English commissioners of prisons shows that amongst those who have been convicted during the year 1902, 51.9 per cent.
— from A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll

Gorgo remembered the hour in which she had, in fact, proffered to the man of her choice as a free gift, the love which, by every canon of propriety, she ought only to have granted to his urgent wooing.
— from Serapis — Complete by Georg Ebers

By and by, when a certain large tent had been erected beneath the shade of a giant ceiba tree, a boat put off from the shore to the ship, and presently returned bearing nine wounded men—the result of their fight that morning—under the especial care of Philip Stukely.
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

Take two small flasks of equal size fitted with corks and joined by a glass tube bent like a U with the ends curled over. Put some lime water into each flask and a little water in the U-tube.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

[101d] Gabriel Harvey, in his Pierces Supererogation (1593, p. 61), after enthusiastic commendation of Petrarch’s sonnets (‘Petrarch’s invention is pure love itself; Petrarch’s elocution pure beauty itself’), justifies the common English practice of imitating them on the ground that ‘all the noblest Italian, French, and Spanish poets have in their several veins Petrarchized; and it is no dishonour for the daintiest or divinest Muse to be his scholar, whom the amiablest invention and beautifullest elocution acknowledge their master.’
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

I have prescribed for scores of young men, pursuing either college or professional studies, who had been more or less injured by the habitual use of this plant.
— from An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey