Drewyer and Whitehouse also returned late in the evening, had killed one Elk.- Labuishe informed me that when he approached this vulture, after wounding it, that it made a loud noise very much like the barking of a dog & the tongue is large firm and broad, filling the under chap and partaking of it's transverse curvature, or it's sides colapsing upwards forming a longitudinal groove; obtuse at the point, the margin armed with firm cartelaginous prickkles pointed and bending inwards.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

From their declaration then it followed, that they of whom the images were had been of form like this, and far removed from being gods: but in the time before these men they said that gods were the rulers in Egypt, not mingling with men, and that of these always one had power at a time; and the last of them who was king over Egypt was Oros the son of Osiris, whom the Hellenes call Apollo: he was king over Egypt last, having deposed Typhon.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

] Note 85 ( return ) [ {kat' ouden einai lamprotetos}: Stein reads {kai} for {kat'}, thus making the whole chapter parenthetical, with {ou gar elegon} answered by {parameipsamenos on}, a conjecture which is ingenious but not quite convincing.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But although a rational being, even if he punctually follows this maxim himself, cannot reckon upon all others being therefore true to the same, nor expect that the kingdom of nature and its orderly arrangements shall be in harmony with him as a fitting member, so as to form a kingdom of ends to which he himself contributes, that is to say, that it shall favour his expectation of happiness, still that law: "Act according to the maxims of a member of a merely possible kingdom of ends legislating in it universally," remains in its full force, inasmuch as it commands categorically.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

William Tell did not kneel or even look at the hat representing the tyrant.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Row of oblations Kite or eagle ( lang ) 18.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Now—all together: ’Long live Edward, King of England!’” “LONG LIVE EDWARD, KING OF ENGLAND!”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

“Do you know that the Home Economics literature has more in it about civic service than any other one general kind of educational literature you can lay your hands on?
— from The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard

But on the morrow, Ulysses, for he was ever fond of adventure, and would know of every land to which he came what manner of men they were that dwelt there, took one of his twelve ships and bade row to the land.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Commencing with the earliest form of lacework— i.e. , "cutworke"—nothing will better show this than the "Sampler" specimen, which, half way down, shows two rows entirely typical of this kind of early lace-making—for such it is.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

I mean intelligible in comparison to their gibberish, for even the Lowlanders talk a kind of English little better than the Negroes in Jamaica.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

He can move either eyeball up or down or sideways, but he hardly ever moves both the same way, so that he has quite the most wonderful squint in the world, and often keeps one eye looking over his shoulder while the other looks straight in front of him.
— from A Book of Nimble Beasts: Bunny Rabbit, Squirrel, Toad, and "Those Sort of People" by Douglas English

Moreover, trials were carried on in the English language, of which the French Canadians in general knew little more than they knew of English law.
— from The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4) by John Charles Dent

It is certain that neither Henry II., nor Richard I., ever used in any written instrument, or graven sign, the style of king, or even lord of Ireland; though in the Parliament held at Oxford in the year 1185, Henry conferred on his youngest son, John lack-land , a title which he did not himself possess, and John is thenceforth known in English history as "Lord of Ireland."
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

His knowledge of English literature was unbounded, and the dispersal of his remarkable library was one of the wonders of the year 1807.
— from The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

Obviously this machine was being used to force from his mind the knowledge of Eliot Leithgow's whereabouts, and therefore he attempted to seal his mind.
— from The Affair of the Brains by Anthony Gilmore

Psamtik, now King of Egypt, led the centre.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers