at the helm, shall steer the boat, and see that the baggage on the quarterdeck is properly arranged and stowed away in the most advantageous manner; to see that no cooking utensels or loos lumber of any kind is left on the deck to obstruct the passage between the burths—he will also attend to the compas when necessary.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“Were you known in London, once?”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Whether the poet conjures from the depths of myth The Kings in Legends , or whether we read from The Chronicle of a Monk the awe-inspiring description of The Last Judgment Day , or whether in Paris on a Palm Sunday we see The Maidens at Confirmation , the pictures presented stand out with the clearness and finality of the typical.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Although an army usually takes such a position for a battle as will keep its line of retreat behind it, sometimes it is obliged to assume a position parallel to this line.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

1, 45, anything best in its kind is looked on with respect , as passive of veneror .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He replied that it was very difficult for devils to obtain money, because men were careful to keep it locked or tied up; and ‘we have no power,’ he said, ‘to take from anything bound or sealed up, nor can we take anything that is measured or counted; we are permitted to take only what is free or common.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

O my King, I look on thee And tremble.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

"If I did, no one should know it; least of all you."
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

"For it is by these chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, and the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of all kinds, is laid open."— Lowth's Gram. , p. 103.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

[1509]. ’Twas known in Lucca on the 6th May, by letters from the bankers Bonvisi.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

Ricketts' division was to keep its left on the pike.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

Another thing I wanted to know I learned on leaving.
— from Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

"Give me, else will I strike thy head from thy body and kick it like offal into the darkness of the night!
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

Pulleys must be kept in line or the belt will slip off.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

The range of design in quarries of this kind is limited only by the invention of the artist.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

In order once more to emphasize the opinion that these charges of cavalry on infantry demand exceptional arrangements on the part of the general commanding the cavalry and his artillery commander, the case quoted by Prince Kraft in Letters on Cavalry , page 64, may be cited.
— from Our Cavalry by Michael Frederic Rimington

Petrov Kalushkin is lying over yonder bleeding from a hundred lashes, but I— [ taking up his violin ] —listen to "The Joy of the Stars!"
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan