we still apply the linniment and flannel; in the evening he was much better.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This, of course, brought us up, and we had only to "ease larboard oars; pull round starboard!" and go aboard the Alert, with something very like a flea in the ear.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Lady Milford has fled and is no longer a factor in the entanglement.
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

Oh, that Shakespeare had known an Everard, and embalmed him like a fly in the everlasting amber of his verse.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

What he says about the negro's capacity for love shows deep psychological insight (III., 68-70): "Europeans residing in Africa who have married a negro woman declare unanimously that there is no such thing there as love and fidelity in the European sense.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

He saw the strong yellow line, and from it there extended towards the violet end of the spectrum a faint greenish band, which, however, at times showed three defined lines, fainter, than the yellow line.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

His odes are very few of them lyrical in the strict sense, but they are dignified and often musical, while the few ``inscriptions'' he has left are felicitous in the extreme.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Bunyan's wish to be 'tried and searched,' reminds me of one who, when alarmed for his soul's safety, earnestly prayed that he might be made increasingly wretched, until he had found safety in Jesus, and knew him, whom to know is joy unspeakable in this life, and felicity in the eternal world.—Ed.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

These last are ferocious in the extreme, when poor creatures armed or unarmed come into their power.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

The highest now standing is the "Keystone State," 325 feet high and 45 feet in circumference; and the largest and finest is the "Empire State."
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

As to myself, it seemed that I had not only heard it thunder, but I had seen the lightning and felt it through every fibre of my system, from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown