Capt Lewis went to view the falls I Set out with the party at 9 oClock a m at 21/2 miles passed a rock which makes from the Stard Side 4 Lodges above 1 below and Confined the river in a narrow channel of about 45 yards this continued for about 1/4 of a mile & widened to about 200 yards, in those narrows the water was agitated in a most Shocking manner boils Swell & whorl pools, we passed with great risque It being impossible to make a portage of the Canoes, about 2 miles lower passed a verry Bad place between 2 rocks one large & in the middle of the river here our Canoes took in Some water, I put all the men who Could not Swim on Shore; & Sent a fiew articles Such as guns & papers, and landed at a village of 20 houses on the Stard Side in a Deep bason where the river ap-prd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

‘I have been telling your daughter how well I have been disposing of my money for myself, because I couldn’t trust it to you, as you were growing rusty in business matters.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I suppose I'm getting reckless; I bought a whole box.”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Such furious metaphors, more suitable to the ardor of Petrarch than to the judgment of Muratori, are gravely refuted in Baluze's preface.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Idleness had ever been irksome to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflection, and hated my former studies, I felt great relief in being the fellow-pupil with my friend, and found not only instruction but consolation in the works of the orientalists.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The hamlet’s front was washed by the clear waters of the great river; its body stretched itself rearward up a gentle incline; its most rearward border fringed itself out and scattered its houses about the base-line of the hills; the hills rose high, inclosing the town in a half-moon curve, clothed with forests from foot to summit.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The former, Colonel Winslow, signed the general representation in behalf of the Provincial Line, and of course was included in Sir Guy Carleton’s recommendation.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

For the battle shall be, not “with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood, but with burning and fuel of fire.”
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

In the meane time beare with me, gentle reader (I beséech thée) that lead thee from the description of the plentifull diet of our countrie, vnto the fond report of a seruile trade, or rather from a table delicatelie furnished, into a mustie malthouse: but such is now thy hap, wherfore I praie thée be contented.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

When human glory rises high As human glory can; When, though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man; The man is dead, where virtue fails; And though the monarch proud In grandeur shines, his gorgeous robe Is but a gaudy shroud.
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

Following the glacial indications wherever we could find them in the country about Glen Roy, it became evident to me that the whole western range of the Grampian Hills had once been a great centre of glaciers, that they had come down toward Glen Spean through all the valleys on the mountain-slopes to the north and south of it, so that this valley had become, as it were, the great drainage-bed for the masses of ice thus poured into it laterally, and moving down the valley from east to west as one immense glacier.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“I am too sceptical to be an ethical adviser; and as for good resolutions, I believed in them when I was young.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

From the intelligence which the Government received, it became evident that an extensive expedition, was on foot, the object of which was the invasion of Cuba.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Sometimes the Great River is blocked up from shore to shore with these frozen masses; the contending currents force them together with terrible violence, and pile them over each other in various fantastic forms.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

All of them took great risks in befriending an escaped prisoner, and they did it without the slightest hope of reward.
— from Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp by Pat O'Brien

It wasn't bad, only the girls run in bunches and are dead anxious to tie up to some male human.
— from The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower