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

Any metrical formula, like that of a bugle call, interrupted at any note before the last, gives us as vivid a sense of incompleteness as a statue with arms and legs broken off, or a ruined building, or a mutilated picture.
— from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason

From these differences we might conjecture, that Fourier would not have succeeded so well as Brisbane did, in getting up a vast and swift excitement; but would have conducted his operations to a safer end.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

On the 18th in the morning, one of my party that was watching the Road came in and told me the Enemy was within a mile of us, upon which I drew up to fight them—at 1/2 past seven they advanced in three Divisions in good order, they had spied some of us and it was the very place they expected to overtake us.—We had but fired one Gun till they gave us a Volley and stood to it very well for some time,'till we rushed in upon them, when they broke immediately.—We pursued for about two miles, and as the enemy was mostly on horseback, it was in vain to follow further.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

It would mean giving up a very agreeable side to life.
— from The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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