late in the evening much to the satisfaction of ourselves and the comfort of our horses we arrived at the desired spot and encamped on the steep side of a mountain convenient to a good spring.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

late in the evening much to the Satisfaction of ourselves and the Comfort of the horses we arived at the desired Spot and Encamped on the Steep Side of a Mountain Convenient to a good Spring.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Mr. Cameron then asked General Sherman what his plans were.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It is more credible that a good syllogism is a lie, than that the part is greater than the whole.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

8. Riches and health no one may command, though all go smoothly with him.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Then, on a languorous swell the music comes to a grating stop.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Nevertheless, he could be funnily vivacious when he wished, but nothing more, could tell a good story, spoiled, however, to some extent by his stuttering, which his falsehood had turned into a habit from the hesitation he always had in replying and in speaking.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 15 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Do you wish that of you the glorious words may come true, ‘And God saw all that he had made, and behold it was very good?’
— from The Good News of God by Charles Kingsley

And if the translator has not, as many of his brethren have done, suffered the spirit of the original totally to evaporate, he apprehends it will be found to contain much novelty of conception, much classical taste, and great spirit and beauty in the execution.
— from Imogen: A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin

The War Department Special Planning Division's files are an extremely important source, especially for postwar racial planning, as are the records of the three World War II major commands, the Army Ground, Service, and Air Forces.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

poet, Forteguerra, in the Ricciardetto, vi. 23: Il nettar beve, e Ganimede il mesce, Che tanto a Giuno sua spiace e rincresce.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

But I do not observe that Mr. Tylor has paid very much attention to what we may call the actual ghost stories of savages—that is, the more or less well-authenticated cases in which savages have seen the ordinary ghost of modern society.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Some advantage, real or imaginary, must compensate to a great sovereign and to a great general for so immense a loss of reputation.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke