we could get nothing to Stay on his Stomach a moment nature appear exosting fast in him every man is attentive to him york prlly H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

(p25) Y, si hubiera sido mudo, habría hablado.... Y, paralítico, hubiera andado.... Y, ciego, hubiera visto.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Give me your hands, your poor hands, and let me kiss away the marks of my stupid violence.”
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

Uncle gave him to me because he said he couldn’t have me walking to town and getting home at midnight, although when he knew I had your protection he admitted that altered the circumstances.
— from The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

Professors Schorlemmer and Thorpe have found heptane in Pinus, which heptane yielded primary heptyl-alcohol, and methyl-pentyl-carbinol, exactly as the heptane obtained from petroleum does ( Annalen de Chemie , ccxvii., 139, and clxxxviii., 249; and Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft , viii., 1649); and, further, petroleum contains a large number of hydrocarbons which are found in coal.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

Still, President Seelye writes to me: "I remember you as a very stimulating teacher of English Literature, and I have often heard your pupils, here and afterwards, express great interest in your instruction.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

Hark you, Peppercorn," he added, speaking apart to the dragoon, "take care how you trust this skulking vagabond: he will take bribes from the rebels, and turn his coat whenever there is money in the way.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

To Barry's eyes her youthful prettiness had a slightly dimmed effect.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

Reggie, who had an adjoining room, took himself off on the plea of an engagement that would keep him till luncheon time, and the happy young people had a long delightful morning to themselves.
— from Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record by Lester Chadwick

If she answers the telephone often, I don't see how your patients have any patience left.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

And he told us also, how he had longed for a priest, who could know infallibly all his heart, and secure him from the deceitfulness and imperfectness of his own confessions, and assure him that, knowing all his sin to its depths, with all its aggravations, he yet pronounced him absolved.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Then, with a proud glance at his youthful progeny, he added: "There is a load of Elders; I have ordained them all myself."
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney