The or deep purple berry is in form much like the huckleberry and termonate bluntly with a kind of Cap or cover at the end like that fruit; they are attached Seperately to the Sides of the boughes of the shrub by a very Short Stem ganging under neath the Same, and are frequently placed verry near each other on the Same bough it is a full bearer; the berry is easily gathered as it Seperates from the bough, readily, while the leaf is Strongly affixed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Lejeune says, "His whole time was given up now to seeing that the wounded received proper care, and he insisted on the Russians being as well treated as the French" (vol. i. 48).
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

This is the reason why preaching, conscious effort, and even education are such feeble agencies for moral reform: only selection and right breeding could produce that genuine virtue which would not need to find goodness unpalatable nor to say, in expressing its own perversities, that a distaste for excellence is a condition of being good.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But the former gives us not the slightest reason to suppose that Mary had any thing to do with the League, although he allows that the representations of the French [Pg 256] ambassador tended to harden her heart towards the Earl of Murray and the other rebels.
— from Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

During the night we had dragged our anchor a little, enough to get unpleasantly near the shore; and just as we weighed, the sails did not fill so quickly as they ought to have done, which caused the yacht to pay off with her head towards the shore instead of off shore.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

He was riding close to the buffalo on his left, with revolver in his right hand, and I wondered why he did not shoot, but Faye said it would be useless to fire then—that Lieutenant Baldwin must get up nearer the shoulder, as a buffalo is vulnerable only in certain parts of his body, and that a hunter of experience like Lieutenant Baldwin would never think of shooting unless he could aim at heart or lungs.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

I know all about what you set forth as explanation and excuse—it goes up North the same as it does here.
— from A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

But she was of a melancholy nature and fond of brooding, often getting up nights to sit and think in the dark: “as if she was a lady!”
— from The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

He gives us not the slightest clue to the name of the besieged place, or even to the side on which he was engaged.
— from The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables

"Janet Clapsaddle," she replied, waddling hungrily forward and getting unpleasantly near the speaker, for he moved off as she approached, and took his stand in the clear place at the head of the table.
— from The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green

Iron hanks are more generally used now that stays are made of wire.—
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth