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

What you send in a letter, is, as a general rule, intended for the perusal of one person only.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Now a representation by which an object is given, that is to become a cognition in general, requires Imagination , for the gathering together the manifold of intuition, and Understanding , for the unity of the concept uniting the representations.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

[659] As a general rule, in fact, this efficacy is so imperfectly determined that the believer is able to form only a very vague notion of it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

But, as soon as they were gone, and my supper getting ready, I fell to write my letter to my Lord Sandwich, which I could not finish before my coming from London; so did finish it to my good content, and a good letter, telling him the present state of all matters, and did get a man to promise to carry it to-morrow morning, to be there, at my house, by noon, and I paid him well for it; so, that being done, and my mind at ease, we to supper, and so to bed, my wife and I in one bed, and the girl in another, in the same room, and lay very well, but there was so much tearing company in the house, that we could not see my landlady; so I had no opportunity of renewing my old acquaintance with her, but here we slept very well. 8th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Johnnie Gardener ran in from the office.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

If when I bow before his feet And with all moving arts entreat, He still deny my prayer, Then with my brother will I live: He must, he must permission give, Roaming in forests there.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In the Corinthian, the girders and roof-opening are constructed on these same principles, but the girders run in from the side walls, and are supported all round on columns.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Their biggest effort, through Germany right into France, thence over the Alps and home again by North Italy, was in 938-9.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

So during the famine of 1847, theft of grain rises in France to forty-two in a single year, whilst for half a century it barely reaches a total of seventy-five.
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

Each nation has learned, within its own confines at least, that wealth is made by work, not robbery; that, indeed, general robbery is fatal to prosperity; that government consists not merely in having the power of the sword but in organizing society—in 'knowing how,' which means the development of ideas; in maintaining courts; in making it possible to run railways, post-offices, and all the contrivances of a complex society.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

On arriving at the Grand River, I found travelling on the ice to be attended with great danger, and several accidents had already happened; but I had the good fortune to reach Grenville at the head of the Long Sault in safety; here, however, my farther progress was arrested for a fortnight, the roads being impassable.
— from Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. by John McLean

A good rule is for the inventor to read over the advertisement, and ask himself, "If this statement was read by me, would I believe it; would it convince me?" etc.
— from Practical Pointers for Patentees by Franklin Allison Cresee

ROYLE This seems a generous reward indeed for the return of a man of Fisher’s unendearing qualities.
— from The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft by Thomas K. Ford

While the occupants of the room bore a general resemblance in feature to the Phœnicians, a glance was sufficient to show that they were not of Phœnician blood, and the language they spoke was Hebrew.
— from The Golden Hope: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. (Robert Higginson) Fuller

The roof, with its carving, gilding, and bright heraldic colors, is in thorough contrast with the rest of the architecture, and the eye gratefully relieves itself from the gloom below, by wandering over its quaint devices and gaudy hues.
— from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various

Dr. Badham says: “All Helvellæ are esculent, have an agreeable odor, and bear a general resemblance in flavor to the Morell.”
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

The old system having gone, Russia is free to open her national, spiritual and physical treasures.
— from Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee