their ornaments consist of beads shells and peices of brass variously attatched to their dress, to their ears arrond their necks wrists arms &c. a bando of some kind usually surrounds the head, this is most frequently the skin of some fir animal as the fox otter &c. tho they have them also of dressed skin without the hair.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Fields Seeing this turned about to take his gun and Saw the fellow running off with his and his brothers, he called to his brother who instantly jumped up and prosued the indian with him whome they overtook at the distance of 50 or 60 paces Siezed their guns and rested them from him and R. Field as he Seized his gun Stabed the indian to the heart with his knif who fell dead; (this Cap L. did not know untill Some time after.)
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In spite of everything, I thought that Captain Nemo must have kept up some type of relationship with the shore.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

= KEY: Unruffled, [See TRANQUIL].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

= KEY: Uproar, [See TUMULT].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

This is a sovereign friendship of our courteous Lord that He keepeth us so tenderly while we be in sin; and furthermore He toucheth us full privily and sheweth us our sin by the sweet light of mercy and grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

And, gentle knight, said the king unto Sir Tristram, now have I great need of you, never had I so great need of no knight's help.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

So far, therefore, from resisting this vice, they even thought that it ought to be excited and kindled up, supposing that that would be beneficial to the republic.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried?
— from Plays : Fifth Series by John Galsworthy

The part kept up shrank to the dozen or score acres of the original Botanic Gardens, the rest relapsing into thickets that made a game preserve for Ernest, King of Hanover.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried? DE LEVIS.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

You would have recommended that he be kept under surveillance then?
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Steam and electric automobiles do tire,—that is, long pulls through heavy roads or up grades tell on them,—the former has trouble in keeping up steam, the latter rapidly consumes its store of electricity.
— from Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

“And Cambyses stayed with Kassandane until sunrise; then he went out, mounted his horse Reksch, and rode into the game-park.”
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

Now, could we shoot Liquidity into a mould,—some way Arrest Soul's evanescent moods, and keep Unalterably still the forms that leap To life for once by help of Art!—which yearns To save its capture: Poetry discerns, Painting is 'ware of passion's rise and fall, Bursting, subsidence, intermixture—all A-seethe within the gulf.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

But relatively to the pacification of the kingdom, upon such terms as fellow-citizens ought to require from each other, it was equally blamable in both parties, or rather more so in that possessed of the greater power.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

The young men seated themselves on a pleasant knoll under some tall pines, there to wait a quarter of an hour or so, while the bonde went forward to prepare Thelma.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli