here we dined, and for the first time for three weeks past I had a good dinner of Blue wing Teel, after dinner we Set out and had not proceded on two miles before our Stern Canoe in passing thro a Short rapid opposit the head of an Island, run on a Smoth rock and turned broad Side, the men got out on the rock all except one of our Indian Chiefs who Swam on Shore, The Canoe filed and Sunk a number of articles floated out, Such as the mens bedding clothes & Skins, the Lodge &c. &c. the greater part of which were cought by 2 of the Canoes, whilst a 3rd was unloading & Steming the Swift Current to the relief of the men on the rock who could with much dificuelty hold the Canoe.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face; and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that, in growing old, do not smell sour and musty.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was even more effaced and silent than in winter.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

But this only the more affected some of them, because most mariners cherish a very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human look of their round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen peeringly uprising from the water alongside.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

He was so new and fresh and salt and not of this world.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

As I said, he went for nearly a week without finding a shirt, and not once did he show the least shame or embarrassment.
— from Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life by Josiah Flynt

Coming as they do from all sections and nations of Europe, they are truly cosmopolitan, and have taken on the language, customs, and modes of thought of the people among whom they live.
— from Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

And this sentiment was certainly general if one were to judge by the crowd who literally invaded the terrasses between five and seven, and none of whom seemed in the least preoccupied or anxious.
— from With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard

Sir Rashleigh Osbaldistone was still alive, but so dreadfully wounded that the bottom of the coach was filled with his blood, and long traces of it left from the entrance-door into the stone-hall, where he was placed in a chair, some attempting to stop the bleeding with cloths, while others called for a surgeon, and no one seemed willing to go to fetch one.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

Taking down from a shelf a number of loose parts of violins put aside for such occasions as the present, I soon found a middle rib that matched in most particulars those of your violin.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

Well—the "Tourists" made a name for Australia such as no other Australians can ever have the privilege to make.
— from Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean

He was pretty tired and dirty by this time, for he had walked through swamps and thickets of briars in the dark, and had fallen and stumbled a number of times.
— from Buster the Big Brown Bear by George Ethelbert Walsh