there are many large banks of pure sand which appear to have been drifted up by the wind to the hight of 15 or 20 feet, lying in many parts of the plain through which we passed today.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

there are maney large banks of pure Sand which appear to have been drifted up by the wind to the hight of 20 or 30 feet, lying in maney parts of the plains through which we passed to day.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If, therefore, I now calculate from that day forward the sudden production of the book, under the most unlikely circumstances, in February 1883,—the last part, out of which I quoted a few lines in my preface, was written precisely in the hallowed hour when Richard Wagner gave up the ghost in Venice,—I come to the conclusion that the period of gestation covered eighteen months.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Well, said Merlin, I know a lord of yours in this land, that is a passing true man and a faithful, and he shall have the nourishing of your child, and his name is Sir Ector, and he is a lord of fair livelihood in many parts in England and Wales; and this lord, Sir Ector, let him be sent for, for to come and speak with you, and desire him yourself, as he loveth you, that he will put his own child to nourishing to another woman, and that his wife nourish yours.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I arrived at Paris in the autumn of 1741, with fifteen louis in my purse, and with my comedy of Narcissus and my musical project in my pocket.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Meanwhile the kings go forth; Latinus in mighty pomp rides in his four-horse chariot; twelve gilded rays go glittering round his brows, symbol of the Sun his ancestor; Turnus moves behind a white pair, clenching in his hand two broad-headed spears.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Several dug-out entrances were blown in, and the front line in many parts was almost unrecognisable.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman

James J. Walsh THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS RAMWAY, N. J. To The Knights of Columbus for whom the material here presented in book form was originally gathered for lectures in many parts of the country and whose hearty interest in the dissemination of historical truth has encouraged its completion, this book is fraternally and respectfully dedicated by the author.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

And in consequence at the time it receives other kinds of motion from light, it must possess that property, which light possesses, to communicate that kind of motion; and for which no language has a name, unless it may be termed Visibility.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

{87} Of the forged letters in my private "pillory" that of Keats is by far the most cleverly executed.
— from Chats on Autographs by Alexander Meyrick Broadley

Was it to push the school still further in progress, to attach mechanical industries to the organization, to work up the farm life into more prominence, or what?
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

When I finish logging in my present holdings, I'm going to pull out of that country and log twenty miles south of Sequoia.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

But this I often find lacking in my prayers.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 1 by George Müller

CHAPTER IV I was up with the birds in the morning; had my breakfast with them—a very drowsy-eyed Amedee assisting—and made off for the forest to get the sunrise through the branches, a pack on my back and three sandwiches for lunch in my pocket.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington