a fiew of those roots for which I gave Small fish hooks, those roots I eate with a little Elks Soupe which I found gave me great relief I found the roots both nurishing and as a check to my disorder.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This fable is generally read in its highly rationalised and mystical form, and on this account belongs to another part of our general subject; but it may be remarked here that the Titan so terribly tortured by Zeus could hardly have been regarded, originally, as the friend of man.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Computer Readable Databases from Gale Research is available both in print and online through Dialog.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

It looked into a garden, and had an iron safe let into the wall; so immediately over the mantelshelf, that I wondered, as I sat down, how the sweeps got round it when they swept the chimney.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Far from it—so far as I can see.” “When my mother was a girl, Rachel (it is no secret in the family), she had loved as you love—she had given her heart to a man who was unworthy of her.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But, in order to achieve this great revolution in favour of the native English, it was necessary that they should be united among themselves, and act under an acknowledged head.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

An elderly terrier, whose black-and-tan coat was thickly sprinkled with gray, reposed in Mrs. Barkamb's lap.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Being of a contemplative turn of mind, he pursued the track of the mystical divines, and having acquired great reputation in Spain, and [145] being desirous of propagating his sublime mode of devotion, he left his own country, and settled at Rome.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

This I did with open eyes, foreseeing a great risk in it, which the tempest had now brought to a reality.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

But beyond these good reasons, it must be said, dear, that there is another, a fact, a certainty, the inspiration of a feeling beyond all else—the inexplicable, intangible, invisible flame which God has given to certain of his creatures, and which impassions them; for I love
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The rails of the New York Central, the Great Western, the Lake Shore, and the Buffalo and Philadelphia roads, besides many other lines, all centre here, carrying their tide of human freight, mainly westward, and transporting the cereals of the great grain regions in exchange for the manufactured products of less favored localities.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

Now I look at it, there is a grievous rent in my neighbor's doublet; but look at mine own.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Dr. Hendricks makes a very good report in the morning.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

I should be glad to know whether, when I have put on my green robe in spring, the trees do not afterwards do the same?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

international: country code - 373; service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik Monaco general assessment: modern automatic telephone system domestic: NA international: country code - 377; no satellite earth stations; connected by cable into the French communications system Mongolia general assessment: network is improving with international direct dialing available in many areas domestic: very low density of about 5.5 main lines per 100 persons; two wireless providers cover all but two provinces international: country code - 976; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region) Montenegro general assessment: modern telecommunications system with access to European satellites domestic: GSM wireless service, available through two providers with national coverage, is growing rapidly international: country code - 382 (the old code of 381 used by Serbia and Montenegro will also remain in use until Feb 2007); two international switches connect the national system Montserrat general assessment: modern and fully digitalized domestic: NA international: country code - 1-664 Morocco general assessment: modern system with all important capabilities; however, density is low with only 4 main lines available for each 100 persons domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive; principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay international: country code - 212; 7 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia (1998)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

cried Glanville, rising in a passion, there's no bearing this.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

The afternoon was spent at lawn tennis, to which lady guests resident in the neighborhood were allowed to bring their husbands, brothers, and fathers—Miss Wilson being anxious to send her pupils forth into the world free from the uncouth stiffness of schoolgirls unaccustomed to society.
— from An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw