one Deer killed this morning, and a Sammon in the last Creek 21/2 feet long The Westerley fork of the Columbia River is double the Size of the Easterley fork & below those forks the river is about the Size Jeffersons River near its mouth or 100 yards wide, it is verry rapid & Sholey water Clear but little timber.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Vita similis aeri, udum modo, sudum, tempestas, serenitas: ita vices rerum sunt, praemia gaudiis, et sequaces curae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I very readily satisfied her as to my acquaintance with him.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The few European travellers who had been there, had magnified the distance, perhaps through simplicity and ignorance; what was really very great, appearing almost infinite to those who could not measure it; or, perhaps, in order to increase somewhat more the marvellous of their own adventures in visiting regions so immensely remote from Europe.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

which is variously related, some better, some worse, but nothing certain.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[“Is Venus really so alarming to the new-made bride, or does she honestly oppose her parent’s rejoicing the tears she so abundantly sheds on entering the nuptial chamber?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And now as a mired horse that struggles at first with all his might and main to get out, but when he sees no remedy, that his beating will not serve, lies still, I have laboured in vain, rest satisfied, and if I may usurp that of [3950] Prudentius, Inveni portum; spes et fortuna valete, Nil mihi vobiscum, ludite nunc alios.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The stream, thus increased in volume, runs south and enters Kensington Gardens at the head of the Serpentine, into which it flows, passing out at the south end.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

Its very roughness shows off by contrast the delicate flowers it holds.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

Marsile in wrath attacked the slayer of his son, but in vain; Roland struck off his right hand, and Marsile fled back mortally wounded to Saragossa, while his main host, seized with panic, left the field to Roland.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

In Massachusetts they do not have eggs until the first week in May, except in very remarkable seasons, usually not until after the Bluebird has already hatched out her first brood, and a week later than the Robin.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

"And as if this were insufficient, a few hours later, before a reply had been received and while negotiations were proceeding in Vienna, Russia suddenly broke off the communications with a momentous decision (mobilization).
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

After leaving this port I visited Rhodes, so famous an island requires me to give some description.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness