Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision—yea, his very hand and foot— In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again: ye have seen what ye have seen."
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Salt water I view as an evil in as much as it is not helthy—I am also of opinion that one two or three weeks Exemination on the opposide if the propects are any wise favourable, would not be too long Variation of the Compass is 16° East H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The sharp end is for extracting shellfish, &c. A larger variety of the unguent spoon has a spout to assist in pouring the contents.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

"Mr. President and gentlemen," he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, "I wish to propose the admission of a new member—one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add immensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Arriving at the largest village of the tribe of the Oritians, which was called Rhambacia, 786 he commended the place and thought that if he colonized a city there it would become great and prosperous.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

H2 anchor Lo, Victress on the Peaks Lo, Victress on the peaks, Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world, (The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,) Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all, Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee, Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme, No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse, But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Without this, the so-called jus certum will remain forever a mere pious wish: we can have only general laws valid on the whole; no general laws possessing the universal validity which the concept law seems to demand.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

wide no water; a large village of the burrowing or barking squirrels on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Women ought to endeavour to purify their hearts; but can they do so when their uncultivated understandings make them entirely dependent on their senses for employment and amusement, when no noble pursuit sets them above the little vanities of the day, or enables them to curb the wild emotions that agitate a reed over which every passing breeze has power?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Plainly, the day is approaching when the Army of the Potomac, unfortunate at times in the past, derided, ridiculed, but now triumphant through unparalleled hardship, endurance, courage, persistency, will plant its banners on the defences of Richmond, crumble the Rebel army beyond the possibility of future cohesion, and, in conjunction with the forces in other departments, crush out the last vestige of the Rebellion."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Julius Cæsar 8 Caractacus before Claudius 9 Britons with Coracle 12 Roman Soldiers passing over a Bridge of Boats 13 Roman Soldiers leaving Britain 17 Coins of the Roman Republic and the Empire 20 Newport Gate, Lincoln 21 Transverse Section of the Roman Wall 22 Longitudinal View of the Roman Wall 22 Cornice from Vendalana (Chesterholm) 22 Capital from Cilurnum (Walwick Chesters) 23 Doorway from Bird-Oswald 23 Roman Masonry at Colchester 23 Basement of Station on the Roman Wall 23 Roman Urns 24 Glastonbury Abbey 25 Treaty of Hengist and Horsa with Vortigern 28 Edwin of Northumbria and the Christian Missionaries 32 Meeting of the Shire-Moot 33 Map of England showing the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Danish Districts 37 Danish Ships 40 Alfred in the Neat-Herd's Hut 41 The "Lady of the Mercians" Fighting the Welsh 45 Ethelwulf's Ring 48 Anlaff entering the Humber 49 Dunstan rebuking Edwy in the Presence of Elgiva 52 Edgar the Peaceable being rowed Down the Dee by eight Tributary Princes 53 Assassination of Edward the Martyr 56 Crucifixion of St. Peter and Martyrdom of other Saints 57 Martyrdom of Alphege 61 Meeting of Edmund Ironside and Canute on the Island of Olney 64 The Riot at Dover 69 The Death of Siward 72 Taking Sanctuary 73 Harold taken Prisoner by the Count of Ponthieu 76 Pevensey Castle 77
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Only the first and last verses of that exquisite hymn; but like "angels with their sparkling lyres," her voice seemed to have lost its earthliness, and soared, as if it were winged, up to the very gate of heaven.
— from Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

There being neither trees, nor shrubs, nor herbage of any sort, save the luxuriant mosses nourished by the eternal moisture, to break the long vista of the Flume, it presents a very novel appearance to the visitor issuing from the dense wood below, and catching a sudden and complete view of its steep, dripping walls, and rocky bed, terminating with the suspended boulder and the Cascade flashing underneath; while the tall hemlocks above the cliffs, shut out all save a small patch of blue sky.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

" These gerrymanders for Congressional purposes are in most cases buttressed by a gerrymander of the legislative districts, thus making it impossible for a majority of the legal voters of the State to correct the apportionment and equalize the Congressional districts.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

That little villa on the Cap Martin—the steep pathway to it—and Richard mounting it, with that pale look, those tattered, sea-stained leaves in his hand—and the tragedy that had to be told, in his eyes, and on his lips.
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Ewald regards the two last verses of the chapter as a sort of soliloquy of the angel Gabriel with himself.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The "snap { 278} judgments" of special correspondents have little value, other than freshness and naïveté , except to readers even less informed than they are.
— from The New Map of Europe (1911-1914) The Story of the Recent European Diplomatic Crises and Wars and of Europe's Present Catastrophe by Herbert Adams Gibbons

On 1st November 1552, at Paul's Cross, Bishop Ridley, of London, preached at great length in favour of the latest version of the Book of Common Prayer.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance

Various cars and traps and saddle horses had brought the party together at the appointed rendezvous—a little village on the outskirts of the Moor, and Jean had driven up with Blaise in one of the Staple cars.
— from The House of Dreams-Come-True by Margaret Pedler