[Pg 172] Hard experience at length taught them who we were, and they now desired to become our friends, and the vassals of the great emperor Don Carlos; for, they were convinced, that in alliance with us, they would be able to live in security and peace with their wives and children, and not be each moment exposed to the incursions of the treacherous Mexicans."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

His amiable accomplishments procured him the friendship of Messala Corvinus, whom he accompanied in a military expedition to the island of Corcyra.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

the mountains are extreemly bare of timber, and our rout lay through the steep and narrow hollows of the mountains exposed to the intese heat of the midday sun without shade or scarcely a breath of air to add to my fatiegue in this walk of about 11 miles, I had taken a doze of glauber salts in the morning in consequence of a slight disentary with which I had been afflicted for several days.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And now, palpably mistress of any size of man, and triumphing in my double achievement of pleasure and revenge, I abandoned myself entirely to the ideas of all the delight I had swam in.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

I seized her below the waist with a hand upon each hip, pressing her magnificent backside against me each time that I thrust forward.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

London now seems no longer the same place where I lately enjoyed so much happiness; every thing is new and strange to me; even the town itself has not the same aspect.-My situation so altered!-my home so different!-my companions
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The beautiful productions of Greece, operating strongly upon their minds, excited them to imitation; imitation, when roused amongst a number, produced emulation; and emulation cherished an extraordinary thirst of fame, which, in every exertion of the human mind, is the parent of excellence.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

1705 The winter was again passed amongst the Dutch villagers; and in April 1705 the Fourth Horse quitted their cantonments, and marching to the vicinity of Maestricht, erected their tents in the early part of May on the banks of the Maese, near Viset, where they were reviewed by the Duke of Marlborough on the 14th of that month.
— from Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

It records his many expeditions to the islands and ports of the three provinces included in the Ken of Shimane, and his study of the manners, customs, and religion of the people.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

One would as soon expect a crow to chick-a-dee as Miss Elvira to talk in any other way.
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

I have endured so many days of the most exquisite torture that I hesitate to distinguish among them by degrees; each deserves its own unique place, even as a Saint's Day in the calendar of an olden Spanish inquisitor.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers

What hath thus from me estranged thee, That I know thee now no more?
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

He had corresponded with Mr. Wordsworth and knew that members of his family had suffered heavily from the dishonesty of the State; and perhaps no passages in his great speeches against repudiation were more effective than those in which he thus brought his fine literary taste and feeling to the support of the claims of public honesty.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

But God gives no sanction to the affirmation that he has created all men equal ; that this is self-evident, and that he has given them unalienable rights; that he has made government to derive its power solely from their consent , and that he has given them the right to change that government in their mere pleasure .
— from Slavery Ordained of God by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross

Who 018 sweetens with roses the breeze, And refreshes the fields with his showers? 'Twas my dear heavenly Father above Who made every thing that I see; And who, with compassion and love, Regards a poor infant like me.
— from The Good Girl by Anonymous

The only lunar mountain more elevated than these is that of the Leibnitz 132 range, which, as we have already stated, ascends to fully 30,000 feet.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

I feel it due, if not to Graham himself, at least to the memory of the dignified orator whose name he inherits, so to modify and soften the hardy style of that peculiar diction in which he disguises his birth and disgraces his culture, that it is only here and there that I can venture to indicate the general tone of it; but in order to supply my deficiencies therein, the reader has only to call to mind the forms of phraseology which polite novelists in vogue, especially young-lady novelists, ascribe to well-born gentlemen, and more emphatically to those in the higher ranks of the Peerage.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron