I set one man about preparing a saffold and collecting wood to dry the meat Sent the others to bring in the ballance of the buffaloe meat, or at least the part which the wolves had left us, for those fellows are ever at hand and ready to partake with us the moment we kill a buffaloe; and there is no means of puting the meat out of their reach in those plains; the two men shortly after returned with the meat and informed me that the wolves had devoured the greater part of the meat. about ten OClock this morning while the men were engaged with the meat I took my Gun and espontoon and thought I would walk a few miles and see where the rappids termineated above, and return to dinner.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In spite of my almost passionate anxiety for Minna, I had observed with singular pleasure the intelligent behaviour of Robber, who, as though conscious of the danger, silently kept close to our side, and entirely dispelled my fear that he would give trouble during our dangerous passage.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“I stumbled once myself, and pitched on my head too, while running up.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

But what pleased me extremely was that in spite of my amorous persecution she did not lose that smiling calm which so became her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I admired her consistency, in spite of myself, and pitied her heartily; for I could guess the storm that must be raging in her breast.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The next to be placed among the regiment of fools are such as make a trade of telling or inquiring after incredible stories of miracles and prodigies: never doubting that a lie will choke them, they will muster up a thousand several strange relations of spirits, ghosts, apparitions, raising of the devil, and such like bugbears of superstition, which the farther they are from being probably true, the more greedily they are swallowed, and the more devoudy believed.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

57 The city was accessible only by a narrow peninsula towards the west, as the other three sides were surrounded by the Adige, a rapid river, which covered the province of Venetia, from whence the besieged derived an inexhaustible supply of men and provisions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The city was accessible only by a narrow peninsula towards the west, as the other three sides were surrounded by the Adige, a rapid river, which covered the province of Venetia, from whence the besieged derived an inexhaustible supply of men and provisions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In replying to their various remarks I could feel, in spite of myself, a pleased, agreeable, faintly self-sufficient smile playing over my countenance, as well as could remark that that smile, communicated itself to those to whom I was speaking.
— from Youth by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It shows order, method and precision.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The large cities have their mycological societies in spite of muscarine and phallin, as they have kennel clubs in spite of hydrophobia.
— from Wild Life Near Home by Dallas Lore Sharp

Lombardy is the region of all Italy most prolific in signs of modernity and prosperity, and, with Torino, Milan shares the honour of being the centre of automobilism in Italy.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Iod.), Solution of Mercury and Potassium Iodide, N.F. (Solution of Potassium Iodohydrargyrate, Channing’s Solution).—Red mercuric iodide (1%), potassium iodide (0.8%), and water.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

The Word of God will be taken out of its sheath of mystery and plainly show the meaning of this trouble, and that it is to be upon all.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

This, too, is a large class, and a class more worthy of sympathy and consideration than the others, for amongst them, in spite of misfortune and poverty, there is a great deal of womanliness and self-respect.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

The plaintive cry of an owl sounds softly from the meadow across the water, and there is an indescribable sense of motion and poetry, and a thrill of expectation that would be wholly lacking in a landscape ever so beautiful, without the river.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

verse Lightnings slumber within my soul, verse I sweep over mountain and plain.
— from The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical Poem by Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir