this mountain was to view the river below, the weather being So Cloudey & thick that I could not See any distance down, discovered the wind high from the N. W. and waves high at a Short distance below our Encampment, (Squar displeased with me for not sin &c &c. Wap-lo a excellent root which is rosted and tastes like a potato I Cut my hand despatched 3 men in a Indian canoe (which is calculated to ride high Swells) down to examine if they can find the Bay at the mouth & good barbers below for us to proceed in Safty.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Haul up your ship upon the land and pack it closely with stones all round to keep off the power of the winds which blow damply, and draw out the bilge-plug so that the rain of heaven may not rot it.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Ultimately I found myself backing Traddles into the fireplace, and bowing in great confusion to two dry little elderly ladies, dressed in black, and each looking wonderfully like a preparation in chip or tan of the late Mr. Spenlow.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

lupasì a pallid in complexion.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I say this was heroically done, and like a prince: I commend him for it, and all such as have means, that will either do (as he did) themselves, or so for love, &c., marry their children.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For as soon as two reflex arcs capacitate it mechanically to swim toward light , it was no longer exactly like a pinwheel; it could respond specifically toward at least one thing in its environment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It follows that when exposed to moisture, as its texture is not loose and porous, it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks in the structures in which it is used.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Week behind las’ Ay playing in cave-man picture with whiskers glued on may face
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 20, May, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

Later a professor in Chicago University.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

Of course my experience was limited, for, with the exception of having once upset Walton to his intense disgust, I had taken little active part in canoe management, and having for my stern-oar, Joe, whose only idea was to push ahead under all circumstances, we performed manœuvres that astonished more than they delighted our associates.
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Even children have their hands go to sleep rather frequently, and at all ages if the arms or legs are placed in certain positions or under certain conditions of pressure, they are likely to develop that numbness which ends in the prickly "pins and needles" feeling that is spoken of as "going to sleep.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

These kings (from about the year B.C. 280 downwards) manifested great eagerness to collect a library at Pergamus, in competition with that of the Ptolemies at Alexandria.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

It also obtained the privilege of paying at least a portion in certificates of Revolutionary indebtedness, some of which were worth about twelve and a half cents on the dollar.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

This cable is the longest at present in connection with this isle, extending 120 miles under the turbulent North Sea.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

When I reflect, said she, laughing, upon the difference there was between us some days ago, and the familiarity in which we live at present, I cannot imagine by what means you have arrived to a good fortune you had so little reason to expect; for, in fine, you have given me no signs of repentance for the fault you committed, which moved me to banish you; and I am not certain whether, in conversing with you in the manner I do, I give you not as much reason to find fault with my too great easiness, as you did me to be displeased with your presumption.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox