St. Side Keeping along the Lbd Side 1 Ms., passed the mouth of a Creek on Lbd Side 3 ms., I call Cupboard, Creek, mouths behind a rock which projects into the river, Camped in the mouth of the Creek aforesaid, at the mouth of this Creek I saw much fresh Signs of Indians, haveing Crossed 2 Deer Killed to day.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The quartet of strings ( pizzicato ), reinforced occasionally by the harp and piano, may, in certain cases constitute a particular kind of tutti , which can only attain any great degree of strength by support from the wood-wind.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

[286] 25 Itemque magis est secundum naturam pro omnibus gentibus, si fieri possit, conservandis aut iuvandis maximos labores molestiasque suscipere imitantem Herculem illum, quem hominum fama beneficiorum memor in concilio caelestium collocavit, quam vivere in solitudine non modo sine ullis molestiis, sed etiam in maximis voluptatibus abundantem omnibus copiis, ut excellas etiam pulchritudine et viribus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Optimum medicamentum in ceteri cordis confortatione, et ad omnes qui tristantur, &c. 4137 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But no more innocently clerical conversation could have been heard in any white Italian cloister or black Spanish cathedral.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"In February, 1902," he said, "there was a meeting in Cotswold Chambers consisting of the twenty-two members of the House of Assembly who went by the name of 'Rhodes' group.'
— from Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

"The adversaries, having once met in close contact, cannot quit each other under any circumstances, and may, consequently, fire muzzle to muzzle."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

Though it is apparent, say the ancients, that the seed of man is the principal efficient and beginning of action, motion and generation, yet the woman affords seed, and contributes to the procreation of the child, it is evident from hence, that the woman had seminal vessels, which had been given her in vain if she wanted seminal excretions; but since nature forms nothing in vain, it must be granted that they were formed for the use of the seed and procreation, and fixed in their proper places, to operate and contribute virtue and efficiency to the seed; and this, say they, is further proved from hence, that if women at years of maturity Page 210 use not copulation to eject their seed, they often fall into strange diseases, as appears by young women and virgins, and also it appears that, women are never better pleased than when they are often satisfied this way, which argues, that the pleasure and delight, say they, is double in women to what it is in men, for as the delight of men in copulation consists chiefly in the emission of the seed, so women are delighted, both in the emission of their own and the reception of the man's.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

[839] Colonel Edward Hill was the most hated man in Charles City county.
— from Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Peridotite is found near Baltimore, Md., in Custer Co., Colo., in Kentucky, etc.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis

Specimen examined : One from Coal Kilns, Panamint Mountains, Inyo Co., California (CN).
— from The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America by John A. White

A SEA FIGHT From a MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

Oil of aniseed is carminative and pectoral; and both itself and preparations have long been in favour with the masses in coughs, colds, &c.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Even Sir Walter Scott (who, though a Presbyterian elder, had a strong leaning to the ritualistic churches), in the twentieth chapter of Rob Roy , puts into the mouth of his hero this description of the Presbyterian service in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral: "I had heard the service of high mass in France, celebrated with all the éclat which the choicest music, the richest dresses, the most imposing ceremonies, could confer on it; yet it fell short in effect of the simplicity of the Presbyterian worship.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

My insufficient clothing clung closely about me, freezing in every fold, and I glided rather than walked along the icy pavement, scarcely lifting my stiffened feet, or having power to do so.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield