"He lived here, when a child, with his grandfather, in a house on the road to Grindelwald," remarked one of the sportsmen.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

it is about 70 yards wide a little above the mouth, at the mouth not So wide, the mud of the Gut running out of the Missourie is thrown and Settles in the mouth half a mile higher up this Channel or gut is the upper point of the Said Island, This Island is Called Nadawa, & is the largest I have Seen in the river, containing 7 or 8000 acres of Land Seldom overflowed we Camped at the head of this Island on the S. S. opposit the head or our Camp is a Small Island near the middle of the river, river Still falling.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When a town is surrendered to them, they take it into their protection; and when they carry a place by storm they never plunder it, but put those only to the sword that oppose the rendering of it up, and make the rest of the garrison slaves, but for the other inhabitants, they do them no hurt; and if any of them had advised a surrender, they give them good rewards out of the estates of those that they condemn, and distribute the rest among their auxiliary troops, but they themselves take no share of the spoil.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Is it the mere force of life which is determined to be, or the consciousness of self which cannot be got rid of, or the fire of genius which refuses to be extinguished?
— from Phaedo by Plato

And whereas in other States members of the same government regard one of their colleagues as a friend and another as an enemy, in our State no man is a stranger to another; for every citizen is connected with every other by ties of blood, and these names and this way of speaking will have a corresponding reality—brother, father, sister, mother, repeated from infancy in the ears of ch
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They not only think it fair that Freshmen should go through their ordeal unaided, but many have a sweet satisfaction in their distresses, and even busy themselves in obtaining elevations, or, as it is vulgarly termed, in ‘getting RISES out of them.’”— Hints to Freshmen , Oxford, 1843.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Even as it was, the least misfortune might betray us; and now and again, when a grouse rose out of the heather with a clap of wings, we lay as still as the dead and were afraid to breathe.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah, it was splendid to live in the country—to get right out of that hole of a town once the office was closed; and this drive in the fresh warm air, knowing all the while that his own house was at the other end, with its garden and paddocks, its three tip-top cows and enough fowls and ducks to keep them in poultry, was splendid too.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

He dressed for dinner every day, "like a regular West End swell," as his grandfather remarked; one of the domestics was affected to his special service, attended him at his toilette, answered his bell, and brought him his letters always on a silver tray.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

General Ross, one of the members of the Committee of Secrecy, acquainted them that they had already discovered a train of the deepest villany and fraud that hell had ever contrived to ruin a nation, which in due time they would lay before the House.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Cussed if I don’t go right out on that there hill and dig them boxes up!”
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

The same day again the Germans repeated one of their earlier offences by firing on a boat within the harbour.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gill rays occur on the hyoid arch, and the gills are protected by a bony operculum attached to the hyomandibular.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TEXT (Tr. 1) Magnificent, but who without hopes delivers himself for not having praised the country in which to live when ennui has grown resplendent out of the sterile winter.
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont

I’ve seen General Codrington on his charger so grey, Riding out on the bills at the dawning of day, With an eye like an eagle and a heart like a lion, Inspecting the trenches where soldiers were dying.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

If the Negroes were all as intelligent as Roscoe Conkling Bruce, as forehanded as Benson of Kowaliga, as lyric as Paul Dunbar, the Whites in the South might get rich out of the trade of the Negro, and some of them see it so.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

There were no bubbles of red gas rising out of that stuff, were there?”
— from Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures by Edgar Franklin

We abandoned that route, while Captain Scott looked out another and longer one by going right out on the sea-floes.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I made a pilgrimage to that shrine, with Arthur Sketchley (George Rose), one of the kindliest humourists in England.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter