Side, proceeded on about two miles lower and landed and encamped near five Lodges of nativs, drying fish those are the relations of those at the Great falls, they are pore and have but little wood which they bring up the river from the falls as they Say, we purchased a little wood to cook our Dog meat and fish; those people did not recive us at first with the same cordiality of those above, they appeare to be the Same nation Speak the Same language with a little curruption of maney words Dress and fish in the Same way, all of whome have pierced noses and the men when Dressed ware a long taper'd piece of Shell or beed put through the nose-this part of the river is furnished with fine Springs which either rise high up the Sides of the hills or on the bottom near the river and run into the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Son mandement est nommé: Faire le fault, sans delay, ou mourir."
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

From the following passage in the writings of Tibullus, commentators have conjectured that he was deprived of his lands by the same proscription in which those of Virgil had been involved: Cui fuerant flavi ditantes ordine sulci Horrea, faecundas ad deficientia messes, Cuique pecus denso pascebant agmine colles, Et domino satis, et nimium furique lupoque: Nunc desiderium superest: nam cura novatur, Cum memor anteactos semper dolor admovet annos.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

] “Tu, dea, rerum naturam sola gubernas, Nec sine to quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum, nec amabile quidquam.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

(N) = ne eom nām f. ( legal ) seizure , LL.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The contributions were as characteristic: A silver tobacco box; a doubloon; a navy revolver, silver mounted; a gold specimen; a very beautifully embroidered lady's handkerchief (from Oakhurst the gambler); a diamond breastpin; a diamond ring (suggested by the pin, with the remark from the giver that he “saw that pin and went two diamonds better”); a slung-shot; a Bible (contributor not detected); a golden spur; a silver teaspoon (the initials, I regret to say, were not the giver's); a pair of surgeon's shears; a lancet; a Bank of England note for L5; and about $200 in loose gold and silver coin.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

[‘ fleawort ’] fleax (æ, e) n. ‘ flax ,’ linen , CP ; Æ (e).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

First of all, Nature has endowed every species of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quae quondam rerum naturam sola gubernas, Nec sine te quidquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum neque amabile quidquam; Te sociam studeo!"
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Twenty-five years I have passed in this place, in which I have everything necessary for life and splendor.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

Each night Fitzgerald learned a little more about chess and a little less about woman.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

Two easy-chairs beside the bed showed where the old folks oftenest sat; Abel's home corner was there by the antique desk covered with farmers' literature and samples of seeds; Phebe's work-basket stood in the window; Nat's lathe in the sunniest corner; and from the speckless carpet to the canary's clear water-glass all was exquisitely neat, for love and labor were the handmaids who served the helpless woman and asked no wages but her comfort.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

And well may be examples now For little you—and me.
— from Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway

This Russian proposal was viewed with some suspicion at Vienna; it was answered with a direct and energetic negative from London.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Dificilmente quisiera el Norte, fixa luz clara, que el Imán no le mirára; y el Imán deficilmente intentára, que obediente el acero le dexára.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

“The Turkish Nationalists wanted to build up their country for efficiency, not for luxury.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

The loose fringe of unemployed, when no more {191} glorious warfare was stirred, sought an outlet for their energies in foraging upon their neighbours’ cattle; and such enterprises naturally found lines of least resistance in richer Lowland straths like Menteith and the Lennox.
— from The Heart of Scotland by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

Of these, thirty-eight, or one-sixth of the whole, were received from the different foreign countries of Europe (France, twenty-seven; Belgium, two; Holland, three; Hanover, one; Naples, one; Switzerland, two; Rhine Prussia, one; Hamburgh, one); 138, or more than half the entire number, from London and its vicinity, where the interest excited was naturally more immediate; fifty-one from the provincial towns of England; six from Scotland, and three from Ireland.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.