from the Signs which the Indians make in discribing this animale they have herect pointed horns, tho one of our Engages Lapage, assures us that he Saw them in the Black hills where the Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

In the Roman law also, under the head of "those who on account of unworthiness are deprived of their inheritance," it is pronounced, that "such heirs as are proved to have neglected revenging the testator's death, shall be obliged to restore the entire profits.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

She was this toward her child—and she was also more than this: by the fiction created by herself, he was become her master; the necessity of recognizing this relation outwardly and of perfecting 56 herself in the forms required to express the recognition, had moved her to such diligence and faithfulness in practicing these forms that this exercise soon concreted itself into habit; it became automatic and unconscious; then a natural result followed: deceptions intended solely for others gradually grew practically into self-deceptions as well; the mock reverence became real reverence, the mock obsequiousness real obsequiousness, the mock homage real homage; the little counterfeit rift of separation between imitation-slave and imitation-master widened and widened, and became an abyss, and a very real one—and on one side of it stood Roxy, the dupe of her own deceptions, and on the other stood her child, no longer a usurper to her, but her accepted and recognized master.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Then they saw the man take his pigs out again to the lake and up the hillsides.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

So he took his basin and soap, and lathered away until the hare came up; then he soaped and shaved off the hare's whiskers whilst he was running at the top of his speed, and did not even cut his skin or injure a hair on his body.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I promise thee, I was never better pleased with thee in my life; and unless thou hast a mind to discover it thyself, this affair may remain a profound secret for me.”—“Nay, Mr Jones,” replied Square, “I would not be thought to undervalue reputation.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Our laws allow us to hide our feelings by the use of the black fan.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The first person I spoke to told me, “He is the son of a wealthy man, but a great libertine and up to his neck in debts.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[Pg 76] of his cognate relations to the lower animals, in which they have a palpable use; and that the gradations by which they have proceeded from practical and important uses in the lower animals, until they have become mere useless or comparatively useless sketches in the human structure, are among the proofs of the descent of man from the lower animals which had a use for such things.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

The following lines are understood to have been written by the late Mr. St. George Tucker of Virginia,
— from Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The doctor had been called away; but the others had strolled across the lawn and up the hill as far as a great bed of green and
— from Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by Anna Chapin Ray

After listening attentively, Ulysses thanked his good friend, and resumed his way.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To avoid quarrels among the first-born, as otherwise each one would try to lay the payment of redemption money upon his neighbor, Moses wrote upon twenty-two thousand slips of paper the word "Levi," and upon two hundred seventy-three the words "five shekels," all of which were then thrown into an urn and mixed.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

As he looked around upon the humbler parishioners, he seemed to say, by his patronizing smile: "Mr. Snow and the great proprietor are at peace.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

The Englishman was only following his low, natural instincts when he ambitiously engaged in the task to which so many of his countrymen before him, like Froude, have devoted themselves, since the time of that arch-falsifier of history, "Giraldus Cambrensis," and, as his original stock of knowledge of our people (especially here in the United States), must have been practically nil , he was compelled to draw on the store of old, worn-out libels against us, that have so often been refuted both by historical facts and direct evidence; but which are as persistently revamped and repeated by every scribbler who desires to vent his spleen, and exhibit his ignorance with regard to a race, that all fair-minded students of humanity admit has held its own with any other on earth, through centuries of adverse circumstances.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

One day, Marlow and his Emily--for whom every day his love increased; for he knew and comprehended her perfectly, and he was the only one--had enjoyed a more happy and peaceful ramble than usual, through green lanes, and up the hill, and amidst the bright scenery which lay on the confines of the two counties, and they returned slowly towards the house, not anticipating much comfort there.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Ascham spent his early years in the house of Sir Humphrey Wingfield, who "ever loved and used to have many children in his house."
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

To this Michael Angelo replied, "Sleep is dear to me, and still more that I am stone, so long as dishonor and shame last among us; the happiest fate is to see, to hear nothing; for this reason waken me not.
— from A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters