This morning we proceeded at an early hour with the two perogues leaving the canoes and crews to bring on the meat of the two buffaloe that were killed last evening and which had not been brought in as it was late and a little off the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Cloudy morning, we proceeded on at an early hour with the two Perogues leaving the Canoes and crews to bring on the meat of two Buffalow that were killed last evening and which had not been brought in as it was late and a little off the river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This is the sum of the arguments {42} of the Korean literati, even as it used to be of the old-time hatless Yedo scholar of shaven skull and topknot.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

syntomon oun tina kai kephalaiôdê logon eipôn apallattesthai boulomai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

kai mê thaumasês; to gar toi phlegma touti to kata to stoma kai leichênôn estin akos kai skorpious anairei parachrêma kai polla tôn iobolôn thêriôn ta men eutheôs apokteinei,
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Then at Caerleon for a space—her look Bright for all others, cloudier on her knight— Lingered Ettarre: and seeing Pelleas droop, Said Guinevere, 'We marvel at thee much, O damsel, wearing this unsunny face To him who won thee glory!'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She works at needlework, knitting, laundry, etc., and shows her work, saying, 'Isn't that good for only a rat?'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

King Latinus entertains Aeneas, and promises him his only daughter, Lavinia, the heiress of his crown.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The old woman had seated herself in an old, high-backed chair, and, with her elbows on her knees, looked earnestly at Edith.
— from Delusion; or, The Witch of New England by Eliza Buckminster Lee

Fishers rolled along small barrels of oysters; further on were shellfish of every kind, lobsters, eels and shrimps, which shook the wicker baskets in which they were inclosed.
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

“Others!” said Abdul Kadir, looking earnestly at the Prince.
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

Being lost in a wood or a fog was nothing to it, especially with the sun at noon drawn up right overhead, so that you couldn't look aloft, and staring down into the sea out of a pool of bright light; 'like one tremendously keen little eye,' as some of the passengers said, 'examining a big blind one.'
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

With which aunswere the Kinges legates, Eluanus and Medwinus sent as messengers by the King to the Pope, returned to Britanie agayne, Eluanus beyng made a byshop, and Medwine alowed a publique teacher: who for the eloquence and knowledge they had in the holy Scriptures, they repayred home agayne to Kyng Lucius, and by their holy preachings, Lucius and the noble men of the whole Britanie receiued their baptisme, &c. Thus farre in the storie.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

Pelham, indeed, at the instance of Walpole, had, before the King left England, applied to his Majesty for the reversion of the moribund Minister's place, and had, if Coxe may be trusted, received a definite promise.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Brógli o , Fáre brógli o , canuasing or suing for offices in Venice, in doing which euery one giueth and taketh faire speeches, large promises, and kind lookes, euen as they doe for Proctors places in Oxford.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio