With all solemnity I set it down here, that those horses were the hardest lot I ever did come across, and their accoutrements were in exquisite keeping with their style.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Badges should be considered and accepted in the general run as not being matters of permanence, and as of little importance except during the time from about the reign of Edward III.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

So, again, several highly competent observers maintain that the existing productions of the United States are more closely related to those which lived in Europe during certain late tertiary stages, than to the present inhabitants of Europe; and if this be so, it is evident that fossiliferous beds now deposited on the shores of North America would hereafter be liable to be classed with somewhat older European beds.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I have come down the river from the foot of the great snowey mountain to see you, and have looked in every detection for you, without seeing you untill now Children I heard from some of your people ___
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Or we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands, in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings and absurdities, cheated by spectral jokes, and waking suddenly with ghostly laughter, [ 238 ] to be rebuked by the cold lonely silent midnight, and to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I sailed the lake in every direction, enraptured by its beauty and the beauty of the surrounding country.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

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— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The view from the "Kol," or top, was indescribably beautiful, reaching as far as eye could see over far-stretching forests, and valleys and corn fields and chains of lakes, in every direction to the unbroken horizon.
— from Our Little Danish Cousin by Luna May Ennis

; the largest I ever dug out and weighed was an old lean dog badger that scaled over 35 lbs.
— from The Badger: A Monograph by Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward), Sir

I always dreaded to pass through a prairie, and on coming to one which was about six miles in width, I was careful to look in every direction to see whether there was any person in sight before I entered it; but I could see no one.
— from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Henry Bibb

[89] Douglas knew that he need not look in either direction unless he could first secure his reëlection to the Senate.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

A part of the scheme of those who work for the reformation of criminals is to render punishment more certain, and to let its extent depend upon reformation.
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner