If Olaf 'scaped from this sword-thing, Worse fate, I fear, befel our king Than people guess, or e'er can know,
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But it has just been shown that the laws of nature can never be cognised a priori in objects so far as they are considered not in reference to possible experience, but as things in themselves.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The informal habit of his mind, joined to an inveterate impediment of speech, forbade him to be an orator; and he seemed determined that, no one else should play that part when he was present.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Here he had need All circumspection, and we now no less Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send, The weight of all and our last hope relies.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

verb [ in , on , + sequor , follow ], follow on, pursue īn-signe, -is , n. badge, decoration ( § 465.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I observed Several floating buffalow on the R. Rochejhone imediately below where large gangues had Crossed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his boat; and grievous loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The slave trade was prohibited and Congress was authorized to forbid the introduction of slaves from the old Union.
— from The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences: Four Periods of American History by Hilary A. (Hilary Abner) Herbert

He has a large sack on his back, bulging with good things—in fact, the bag is often so full that dolls and whips and whistles can be seen poking out at the top.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

For in one seed, in one small frame of any, The shapes can't vary from one another much.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

URING the fag end of last month I observed some fragments of a new creature among some bits of Anacharis, from the Vale of Heath Pond, and searched for complete and intelligible specimens without effect.
— from Marvels of Pond-life Or, A Year's Microscopic Recreations Among the Polyps, Infusoria, Rotifers, Water-bears and Polyzoa by Henry James Slack

The current of the River Po, for a considerable distance after its volume of water is otherwise sufficient for continuous navigation, is too rapid for that purpose until near Cremona, where its velocity becomes too much reduced to transport great quantities of mineral matter, except in a state of minute division.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

At last, spent and discouraged, I obtained shelter for my little expedition beneath the roof of a small and emphatically untidy
— from Fibble, D.D. by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Finally, whatever we may fail to achieve because, for instance, of some fundamental facts of human nature against which it is vain to legislate, at least we have economic conditions under our control, and control them we must, so that, whoever shall be in a position of economic insecurity, at least it shall not be the mothers of the future.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

I only came across it once, however, while making this collection, in its own simple form, and with a name as near its own as Cenorientola .
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk