He ordered them to look for some long earthworms on the island, and when they found one they brought it to the king.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Common sense has long recognized this, but until recently no systematic attempt has been made to isolate , describe, and explain the distinctively human factors in the life either of the individual or of society.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It lays emphasis on the idea of salvation wholly through the merits of another, but it also paints in richer tints the sensuous delights of the Western Paradise.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But I very well understand that it is a commodity hard to recover: by weakness and long experience our taste is become more delicate and nice; we ask most when we bring least, and are harder to choose when we least deserve to be accepted: and knowing ourselves for what we are, we are less confident and more distrustful; nothing can assure us of being beloved, considering our condition and theirs.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The valley in which he found himself divided and sub-divided into many gorges, which were so like each other that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Bow and arrow is the most common instrement among them, every man being furnished with them whether he has a gun or not, this instrement is imployed indiscreminately in hunting every Species of animal on which they Subsist, Their bows are extreemly meet neat and very elastic, they are about two feet Six inches long and two inches wide in the Center, thence tapering gradually to the extremities, where they ar 3/4 of an Inch wide, they are very flat and thin, formed of the heart of the arbor vita or white Cedar, the back of the Bow being thickly Covered with Sinues of the Elk laid on with a Gleue which they make from the Sturgeon; the String is made of the Sinues of the Elk also, the arrow is formed of two parts usually tho Sometimes entire; those formed of 2 parts are uneaquilly devided, the part on which the feathers are placed occupie 4/5 of it's length and is formed of light white pine rather larger than a Swans quill, in the lower extremity of this is a Circular mortice Secured by Sinues raped around it; this mortice recives the one end of the 2d part which is of Smaller Size than the first and about five inches long, in the end of this the barb is fixed and Confined with Sinues, the berb is either Iron Copper or Stone—in this form forming at its point a greater angle than those of any other Indians I have observed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

H[=o]-nen, after making his discovery, believing it possible for all mankind eventually to attain to perfect Buddhaship, left, as we have seen, the Ten-dai sect, which represented particularism and laid emphasis on the idea of the elect.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But we shall also be able, although we have only the pelvis before us, to make reliable statements concerning the position of the bones of the lower extremities of this individual.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one." "How horribly unjust of you!" cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Still better, Paris Duvernier, the Court-Banker, honoured him with some confidence; to the length even of transactions in cash.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Then at the distance of about a mile passed six more huts on the same side, nearly opposite the lower extremity of the island, which has its upper end in the mouth of the Towahnahiooks.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

I had not laid eyes on that individual for weeks.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

While the army lay encamped on the island beach, below the town of Arcona, this man noticed that the high cliffs on which the temple was built were honeycombed by many deep holes, which could not be seen from the ramparts above, but were quite visible from the beach below.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

And if you assemble together a dozen healthy folk, who have got no idea of dying at present, you will find that, rooted in the consciousness of at least eleven of them, if they will be honest about themselves, there is this same immutable conviction that They Themselves will neither have been extinguished or reincarnated or absorbed when their bodies are put away in a furnace or a churchyard.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

{70} The form of Lucía, extended on the improvised bed, completed the picture of peace and quietude presented by this moving bed-room.
— from A Wedding Trip by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

It was the second day of March before the last embarkation of the Imperial troops were landed at Trapani.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There are plenty of moor hens, coots and dab-chicks on the lake-like expansion of the Ivel near the mill.
— from Hertfordshire by Herbert W. (Herbert Winckworth) Tompkins

If this were really the case, the old couple might have dismissed their fears; the difficulty of finding a prosecutor would have been insurmountable; and as to portable property of a sufficiently small size to be tied up in a pocket-handkerchief, there was little enough of that in the mansion.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Of course there were various alterations of detail, changes in the metres, curtailments, and disfigurements; in the Latin edition of the -Iphigenia- of Euripides, for instance, the chorus of women was—either after the model of another tragedy, or by the editor's own device—converted into a chorus of soldiers.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen