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

The queen, seeing the story and likewise her sovantry at an end, rose to her feet and put off the crown, which she set laughingly on Dioneo's head, saying, "It is time, Dioneo, that thou prove awhile what manner charge it is to have ladies to govern and guide; be thou, then, king and rule on such wise that, in the end, we may have reason to give ourselves joy of thy governance."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

One would have called it a veritable kaleidoscope, a real operatic scene; and for a moment our little locality might have thought itself transported into the midst of a dream of the ‘Thousand and One Nights.’
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

But it was well observed by some at the table, that they do not think this retrenching of the King’s charge will be so acceptable to the Parliament, they having given the King a revenue of so many L100,000’s a-year more than his predecessors had, that he might live in pomp, like a king.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The spirit of resistance and the sense of human dignity, dulled in me and paralyzed, as it were, by grief, suddenly awoke again, and in this hour I realized that man is not made for that selfish concentration of despair which is known as resignation or stoicism.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

"Well, I think my most worthy cousin, Ernest Augustus, of Saxe-Weimar, will understand this allusion, and in gratitude for my giving his name to posterity in my 'Anti-Machiavel,' will unravel the mystery, and inform the world how it is possible, with the annual income of four hundred dollars, to keep a retinue of seven hundred men, a squadron of one hundred and eighty, and a company of cavalry; if he is capable of accomplishing this, without plunging into debt, he is certainly my superior, and I could learn a great deal from him.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

As it stands now, here she is, keen, all ready, once she's solid in her mind about the right spirit of the scenario, to start south with me...” Peter waved the poker in a series of small circles and figure eights; then held it motionless and sighted along it with squinted-up eyes.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

Clinton H. Cummings is a well known agriculturist residing on section 4, township 6 north, range 35 east, Walla Walla county, there owning eighty acres of land in the richest part of the valley.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

And it is at least possible that knowledge and reality or, speaking more strictly, a knower and reality, are related in this way.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

Lawrence M. Keitt, a Representative of South Carolina, and Hon.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner