Water was found in three holes in the side of Peel's range sufficient for all our necessities, and a most grateful relief it proved, particularly to the poor horses, who were nearly famished for the want of it: one of the best of our animals was so exhausted that it was with some difficulty he could be taken to the water.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

After quitting Blue-fox, he galloped on for some time in the direction where he expected to find the Jaguar; but gradually he yielded to his thoughts, and his horse, understanding with that admirable instinct which distinguishes these noble animals, that its rider was paying no attention to it, gradually reduced its pace, passing from the gallop to a trot, and then to a foot-pace, walking with its head down, and snapping at a few blades of grass as it passed.
— from The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

GUILT, Reatus , is principally predicated of the will, 493 .
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

Even if The Three Principles is judged by the extent of the population which its followers control, it has achieved greater results in practical politics in fifteen years than has Marxism in ninety.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Gustave Rameau in permanent pos session of his ill-merited and ill-ministered fortune.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To give romance its proper precedence over reality, however, I must first mention, that on the soft bank of the artificial lake, which I shall presently describe, Constantine Ghika, disguised as a shepherd, stole an interview with the fair Veronica, and in the wild forest to the right, they wandered till they lost their way; an adventure of which they only regretted the sequel, finding it again!
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Now a mild glory round its presence play’d, And ’spoke from heav’nly courts the awful shade.
— from The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers by Anonymous

[94] 3. Well-mastered lessons Probably the worst of all drawbacks to good recitations is poorly prepared lessons.
— from The Recitation by George Herbert Betts

At the angle is a rude Greek relief in porphyry, probably from Acre, of two pairs of armed figures clasping each other.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

“Divine proportion” or “golden ratio” in poetry, Pascal’s triangle, philosophy, psychology, music, mathematical figures, etc.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent