May Dine with Mr. Ducete & Set out from St. Charles at three oClock after getting every matter arranged, proceeded on under a jentle Breese, at one mile a Violent rain with Wind from the S. W. we landed at the upper point of the first Island on the Stbd Side & Camped, Soon after it commenced raining & continued the greater part of the night; 3 french men got leave to return to Town, and return early (refur to Fig.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nor did Butler King, of Georgia, ever manifest any particular interest in the matter.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As nature gives each man absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic absolute power over all its members also; and it is this power which, under the direction of the general will, bears, as I have said, the name of Sovereignty.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If every merchant, when he struck grog from the list of the expenses of his ship, had been obliged to substitute as much coffee, or chocolate, as would give each man a pot-full when he came off the topsail yard, on a stormy night;—I fear Jack might have gone to ruin on the old road.[2]
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

from v. melja, to pound, or v. mala, to grind; E. mill, and prob.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

It was by a well-considered coup d'état that, with her brave coadjutors, she 485 appeared on the floor of the House and gave each member a petition from his own State.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

When later Gilbert employed Messrs. A. P. Watt as his literary agents a letter to them (undated, of course, and written on the old notepaper of his first Battersea flat) shows a mingling of gratitude to his agents with entire absence of resentment towards his publishers, which might be called essence of Chesterton: The prices you have got me for books, compared with what I used weakly to demand, seem to me to come out of fairyland.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

They were very very costly, and as they carried big loads the companies had a hard time getting enough mails and passengers to pay for operating them.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam

The whole of the six battalions that had joined in the reckless advance were forced to recoil, fighting desperately but losing ground every moment, and pressed into clumps and masses that presented no trace of their former line of battle.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

It is this latter species of finding—the finding, namely, of certain sensations as the essential condition on which the apprehension of all other sensations depends; it is this finding alone which gives each man a paramount and indisputable title to that "treasure trove" which he calls his own body.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Loch Skein, where we were galvanized, electrified, magnetized, and petrified, all at once, by the quackery, clackery, flappery, quatter, splatter, clatter, scatter, and dash-de-blash, and squash, of a flock of wild ducks, on its reedy, flaggy surface; O, what a scutter was there!
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 by Various

How the farmers swore and the labourers chuckled when he took all the cottages into his own hands and rebuilt them, set up a first-rate industrial school, gave every man a pig and a garden, and broke up all the commons ‘to thin the labour-market.’
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley