those two young Scotch gentlemen furnished us with Beef flower and Some pork for our men, and gave us a very agreeable supper.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the day when more of the boys from our streets shall find their way to it and to the New York Trade Schools, of which it is a kind of home annex, we shall be in a fair way of solving in the most natural of all ways the question what to do with this boy, in spite of the ignorant opposition of the men whose tyrannical policy is now to blame for the showing that, out of twenty-three millions of dollars paid annually to mechanics in the building trades in this city, less than six millions go to the workman born in New York, while his boy roams the streets with every chance of growing up a vagabond and next to none of becoming an honest artisan.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Their son, called Asbjorn, became as he grew up a very able man.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Jahn preached 'German Unity.' Achim von Arnim collected German songs and war songs of German warriors.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

The Indian Ocean has not given us a very affable reception.
— from From Libau to Tsushima A narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident by Evgenii Sigizmundovich Politovskii

Napoleon once more received the congratulations of his generals upon a victory, and he began to dream of a peaceful occupation of his imperial throne.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

Here the ecclesiastical musicians had taken their stand, and here they gave us a (violins and ’cellos) repertoire of church music, to which the congregation listened with rapture.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

They too were growing ugly and vicious and so nervous that the least noise, the least stir, sent them into a quivering frenzy of fright.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

Artemidorus said, scoffing, that we had a goodly time with the gods, only that they were slow of speech or fond of circuits; for Oneirocritus had sent us to Asclepius, and behold, that god had given us a dream but not the interpretation of the dream; and afterwards we had gone to Trophonius, and he had given us a vision, and an oracle in broad Bœotian to be the interpretation of the dream; and now nothing remained but we should go to Delphi to obtain some oracle that might 53 serve as the interpretation of the dream; or last of all, if the son of Zeus should answer, like the rest, doubtfully and darkly, then must we go to Zeus himself in Dodona that the Father might enlighten for us whatever the Son might have left too obscure.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Its long, frisky tail, its big, threatening claws, and its generally uncanny and vicious appearance are quite sufficient to inspire caution if not positive dread.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

We reached the guns, but they had an infantry support which gave us a volley; at the same time a battery on our right, which we had not seen, opened on us, and back we had to come.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson