8 men, Say 30 inhabitents- Those people are friendly gave us to eate fish Beries, nuts bread of roots & Drid beries and we Call this the friendly Village We purchased 12 dogs of them & 4 Sacks of Pounded fish, and Some fiew Dried Berries and proceeded on at 4 miles further we landed to Smoke a pipe with the people of a village of 11 houses we found those people also friendly Their Village is Situated imediately below the mouth of a River of 60 yards water which falls in on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The greatest emperors and the most illustrious kings have, with well nigh none other art than that of slaying, not one man, as thou wouldst have done, but an infinite multitude of men, and burning countries and razing cities, enlarged their realms and consequently their fame; wherefore, an thou wouldst, to make thyself more famous, have slain me only, thou diddest no new nor extraordinary thing, but one much used.' Mithridanes, without holding himself excused of his perverse design, commended the honourable excuse found by Nathan and came, in course of converse with him, to say that he marvelled beyond measure how he could have brought himself to meet his death and have gone so far as even to give him means and counsel to that end; whereto quoth Nathan, 'Mithridanes, I would not have thee marvel at my resolution nor at the counsel I gave thee, for that, since I have been mine own master and have addressed myself to do that same thing which thou hast undertaken to do, there came never any to my house
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And this effort at a præternatural conception is, in this early form, by no means mere superstition; rather is it poetic and artistic,—a kind of crude effort at allgemeinheit , at realisation of the types of evil—the claw-principle, fang-principle in the universe, the physiognomies [ 320 ] of venom and pain detached from forms to which they are accidental.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"The loyal peasant," it says, "sighing after the government he lost by the late revolution, travels from Pennsylvania in search of his former laws and protection; and having his expectations fulfilled by new marks of favour from the Crown in a grant of lands, he turns his plough at once into these fertile plains [the immediate reference is to the neighbourhood of Woodhouse on Lake Erie], and an abundant crop reminds him of his gratitude to his God and to his king."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Beads of sweat began to break out on his emaciated face, but no one noticed this, so deeply absorbed and affected were they.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

(Graded No. 1 or No. 2, according to size) roasting with few quakers, similar to Mocha, having an excellent flavor but not quite so delicate.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Amongst the rest to whose ears came the magnificent fame of Gerbino's valour and courtesy was a daughter of the King of Tunis, who, according to the report of all who had seen her, was one of the fairest creatures ever fashioned by nature and the best bred and of a noble and great soul.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

These preferences are in themselves, if the dynamic order alone be considered, works of supererogation, expressing force but not producing it, like a statue of Hercules; but the principle of such preferences, the force they express and depend upon, is some mechanical impulse itself involved in the causal process.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

"Steel engraving was first practised in England by the calico printers; but it was first employed for bank notes and for common designs by Jacob Perkins, of Newburyport, Mass."
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

11. six specific passages have been sent down by God, the Revealer of Verses #8 The passages that form part of the Prayer for the Dead comprise the repetition of the greeting "Alláh-u-Abhá" (God is the All-Glorious) six times, each followed by nineteen repetitions of one of six specifically revealed verses.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

I found multitudinous changes among old friends and associates when I got home, and was struck with the ceaseless work of time's effacing fingers, but nowhere did I find such cause for sorrow and regret as in the falling off and change of base which I found in the matter of melon cultivation.
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

The very abrupt descent east of the Balkan and Laguna Mountains is due solely to enormous erosion, for both north and south ridges extend past them for many miles into the desert.
— from Old Mines of Southern California Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks

Quebec's one chance lay in the hope that the French vessels might { 59} slip past the English frigates by night.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

More and more, dark angel, entering into black age like torches in a cave, I see your deep eyes flame; but never do they please me, Patty, as when they flash on some new wicked idea, like this of marking the boy for life.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

A hare ventured out of its cover and fled wildly, with its ears flapping, but no one thought of pursuing the animal as we used sometimes to do.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

exclaimed Jerry, leaping to his feet, an example followed by Ned and Bob.
— from The Motor Boys Over the Rockies; Or, A Mystery of the Air by Clarence Young

It is best when eaten fresh, but not warm.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

We have wrestled through most of the four volumes and we now want you to recommend to us some simple, easy French books (not School books).
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini