The Indians were so anxious that the Sick Chief (who has lost the use of his limbs) Should be Sweted under our inspection they requested me to make a 2d attempt to day; accordingly the hole was enlargened and his father a very good looking old man performed all the drugery &c. we could not make him Swet as copously as we wished.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The king elevated his forehead into innumerable wrinkles; the gouty little old man puffed like a pair of bellows; the lady of the winding sheet waved her nose to and fro; the gentleman in the cotton drawers pricked up his ears; she of the shroud gasped like a dying fish; and he of the coffin looked stiff and rolled up his eyes.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It has taught me this great lesson of morality, perhaps the only one that can have any conspicuous influence on our actions, that we should ever carefully avoid putting our interests in competition with our duty, or promise ourselves felicity from the misfortunes of others; certain that in such circumstances, however sincere our love of virtue may be, sooner or later it will give way and we shall imperceptibly become unjust and wicked, in fact, however upright in our intentions.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I need not explain to you, Miss Racksole, that when a person of the importance of my nephew contrives to get lost one must proceed cautiously.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

Under these conditions, seeing success to be out of the question, and suffering great loss of men, Porter turned to the last resort of the vanquished, to destroy the vessel and to save the crew from captivity.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Grant, General Ulysses S., at West Point, 17 ; joins Fourth Regiment in Missouri as lieutenant, 18 ; takes part in theatricals, 20 ; operations of, at Vicksburg, 478 ; assumes command of armies in Tennessee, 482 ; orders Longstreet driven out of East Tennessee, 516 ; visits Knoxville, 525 ; wants Longstreet driven from Tennessee, 531 ; urges General Foster to the offensive, 532 ; despatches of, to Generals Halleck, Thomas, and Schofield, on plans to drive Longstreet from Tennessee, 534-536 ; finds Longstreet too far from his line of operations to properly engage against, 538 ; assigned as commander-in-chief, 543 ; with Army of the Potomac, 552 ; had no general plan for campaign (May, 1864), 555 ; prepares for immediate battle (Wilderness), 556 ; orders Ninth Corps into battle, 561 ; plan of, for left attack in front of Richmond, 575 , 576 ; letters to, from General Lee, on military peace convention, 585 , 586 ; draws from East and West to strengthen combination against, 590 et seq.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

Schilling gave me a genuine look of mingled pity and admiration.
— from The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

She continued gently: “Between ourselves, Mr. Grimshaw, lack of means prevents my doing many desirable things.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

"I know, ma'm, I know; and I am sure you must think it a great liberty on my part to ask such a thing," the sergeant said apologetically.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But it is in the West, perhaps, that the most remarkable rain carvings and wind carvings occur, and especially in that part called the Southwest, that "land as old as time is old," that strange, weird land of red rocks, of tall, long cliff lines like mountain ranges split asunder to span the desert in their nakedness; that land of labyrinthine cañons, where the bloom of morning lingers to kiss the gloom of [66] night; land of isolated buttes that frown in lofty silence on the lower world like monuments belonging to some cemetery of giants; land of mesas , plateaus, pinnacles, and peaks.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 Volume 54, November 1898 by Various

In addition to that great quality she was endowed with a fine nose, an instinct for co-ordination not to be excelled, and a genuine love of making people comfortable; so that it was no wonder that she had risen in the ranks of hostesses, till her house was celebrated for its ease, even among those who at their week-ends liked to feel 'all body.'
— from The Freelands by John Galsworthy

The Gallic lucidity of mind prevented such self-deception.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer