we have three days provision only in store and that of the most inferior dryed Elk a little tainted.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

we have three days provisions only in Store and that of the most inferior dried Elk a little tainted.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Possession soon exhausts our appreciation of beauty; in six weeks’ time we think no more about it, but its dangers endure as long as life itself.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Taine means by 'each of us' merely the present 'judging Thought' with its memory and tendency to appropriate, but he does not name it distinctly enough, and lapses into the fiction that the entire series of thoughts, the entire 'plank,' is the reflecting psychologist.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Well accordingly he went out rather airly in de evenin', and laid up behind de mow, for a long while, till he got rather tired and sleepy, and thought 'twaunt no use a watchin' no longer.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

For one half-second—one lightning flash—his twisted figure, like a slight black speck was seen against the wide roseate glory of the tumbling cascade—then it disappeared, engulfed and lost for ever!
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

In Calabria the French were considerably detached; and though numerically stronger, with three thousand in the South, four thousand in Upper Calabria, and the remainder occupying numerous posts, it was quite practicable to take them in detail, effect a landing between the two corps, engage them separately, and clear the country from St. Euphemia to the Castle of Scylla.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

“Are you in daid earnest?” asked Larry, huskily.
— from The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

It demands either a long, methodic, laborious study of the history of philosophy 113 conducted with critical vigour, or that unyielding tenacity of the mind which is the surest sign of sound spiritual character; that steadfast firmness by which man, once in possession of a clearly irrefutable, truly fundamental truth, rigorously excludes from his soul all the allurements of prejudice, all convictions formerly entertained, even though extremely plausible, if they contradict his Truth.
— from The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

They had found within this curious ring of Plato, which is a circle of mountains sixty miles in diameter, enclosing a level plain remarkably smooth over most of its surface, unmistakable evidences of former habitation.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss