Drewyer turned off to the left of the road in order to hunt and did not join us this evening.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

With the poems of a first-class land are twined, as weft with warp, its types of personal character, of individuality, peculiar, native, its own physiognomy, man's and woman's, its own shapes, forms, and manners, fully justified under the eternal laws of all forms, all manners, all times.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Jonson uses the expression again in the New Inn, Wks. 5. 402: And play no after-games of love hereafter.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

a verry warm morning, passed a butifull Prarie on the right Side which extends back, those Praries has much the appearance from the river of farms, Divided by narrow Strips of woods those Strips of timber grows along the runs which rise on the hill & pass to the river a Cleft above, one man sick (Frasure) Struck with the Sun, Saw a large rat on the Side of the bank, Killed a wolf on the Bank passed (2) a verry narrow part of the river, all confined within 200 yards, a yellow bank above, passed a Small willow Island on the S. point, (in Low water those Small Willow Islands are joined to the Sand bars makeing out from the Points) a pond on the S. S near the prarie we passed yesterday in which G D. Saw Several young Swans we Came to and Camped on the L. S. and two men Sent out last evening with the horses did not join us this evening agreeable to orders—a hard wind with Some rain from the N, E at 7 oClock which lasted half an hour, with thunder & lightning.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.’
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Stealing a knife and returned, our Small Canoe which got Seperated in the fog this morning joined us this evening from a large Island Situated nearest the Lard Side below the high hills on that Side, the river being too wide to See either the form Shape or Size of the Islands on the Lard Side.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

There are, indeed, two or three epithets which might be considered as applicable to it in part; I might say, for example, that the sound was harsh, and broken and hollow; but the hideous whole is indescribable, for the simple reason that no similar sounds have ever jarred upon the ear of humanity.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

at seven P.M. it began to rain and hail, at 9 it was succeeded by a heavy shower of snow which continued untill the next morning.—several indians joined us this evening from the village of the broken arm or Tunnachemootoolt and continued all night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Expulsion of the Jews Up to Edward's day indeed the royal protection had never wavered.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

If the load be too heavy, he lies down, and no force or persuasion will induce him to resume his journey until the excess be removed.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

To deprive the leader of a great army of his command just upon the eve of a great battle, when, by the most brilliant marches and masterly strategy, he had thrown this army face to face with his enemy, thwarting his designs of moving upon the capital, without some offense of a grave character, was an act unheard of before in the history of warfare.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

The opening of each of the first four seals, the four that deal with judgments upon the earth, is immediately followed by a voice, "as it were the noise of thunder," from one of the four living creatures, saying, Come.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation by William Milligan

A foot heavily booted crashed through the half-concealed tunnel, not six inches from where the young man lay, a gun was discharged, evidently by the sudden jerk upon the earth, and the air was rent above him by a perfect tornado of vigorous Gaelic—a good language, as has been said, for preaching or swearing.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The consultant is a widow; opposite the handle of the cup she has "turned" is the Envelope over Jupiter, upon the Envelope tea-leaves forming an Owl are seen, beneath is a small arrow pointing towards the handle.
— from Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup by Cicely Kent

Here he was joined by Mrs. Heald, and they both pursued their journey up the east coast of Lake Michigan to Mackinac, where Captain Heald delivered himself up as a prisoner of war to the British commandant, by whom he was well treated and released on parole.
— from The Story of Old Fort Dearborn by J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour) Currey

2 the back part of the jawbone under the ears or the analogous structure in animals. paN-(→) v [A2; b6] rest one’s head by propping his cheeks in his hands.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A cry for justice arose from every lip, for justice upon this earth, justice for those who hunger and thirst, whom alms are weary of relieving after eighteen hundred years of Gospel teaching, and who still and ever lack bread to eat.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

Put seton in the neck just under the ear.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson