Mr. Chabonah Sent a french man of our party that he was Sorry for the foolissh part he had acted and if we pleased he would accompany us agreeabley to the terms we had perposed and doe every thing we wished him to doe &c. &c. he had requested me Some thro our French inturpeter two days ago to excuse his Simplicity and take him into the cirvise, after he had taken his things across the River we called him in and Spoke to him on the Subject, he agreed to our terms and we agreed that he might go on with us &c &c. but fiew Indians here to day; the river riseing a little and Severall places open.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Who that sees the meanness of our politics, but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud, and forever safe; that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of humanity not yet subjugated in him?
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That is the thought that is in the minds of our people.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Wherefore, touching the legislation about orphans, the law speaks in serious accents, both of persuasion and threatening, and such a threat as the following will be by no means out of place:
— from Laws by Plato

The Indians with us behave themselves extreemly well; the women have been busily engaged all day making and mending the mockersons of our party.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Matter which cannot enter the moulds of ordinary perception, capacities which a ruling instinct usually keeps under, flow suddenly into this new channel.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The king, half roasted, was carried thence; not so much out of pity (for what compassion ever touched so barbarous souls, who, upon the doubtful info
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

this was the same party that had communicated the venerial to so many of our party in November last, and of which they have finally recovered.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In consequence, his prose works are often, like those of Milton, more imaginative and melodious than much of our poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The Hamburg quotation (formerly from Brazil per fifty kilos) is made on one pound German, equal to 1 ⁄ 2 kilogram, and is expressed in pfennigs.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As I aided them in the work of concealment, I artfully contrived to possess myself of one paper,—the Havannah banker's receipt for the large deposits I had left in his hands; and this I managed to slip within the lining of my travelling-cap.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

The work of the beach-parties in that scene of burning and massacre was beyond all praise: so was the work of the fatigue parties who passed up and down the hill with water, ammunition and food, or dug sheltered roads to the trenches; so was the work of the Medical Service, who got the wounded out of cuts in the earth, so narrow and so twisted that there was no using a stretcher and men had to be carried on stretcher bearers' backs or on improvised chairs made out of packing cases.
— from Gallipoli by John Masefield

The Mexicans of our party to whom this language was addressed, being rancheros of some mettle, only answered, " Al diablo !
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

Besides what has been before stated of the conduct of Great Britain, it will not be forgotten that she declared all France in a state of blockade, and this order would have cut off all commercial intercourse with her, who then wanted much of our produce.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The chiefs of the League, many of whom were ambitious political partisans rather than zealous theologians, and who were clamorous for Catholicism only as the means of obtaining power, at once relinquished all hope of victory.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I have thought it proper to quote at length these interesting passages, because they contain a luminous abridgment of the principal arguments in favor of the Union, and must effectually remove the false impressions which a misapplication of other parts of the work was calculated to make.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

As to the attacks made on other parts of the book as not authentic, for example, what is said of Behemoth and Leviathan, they rest on no valid foundation.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Are they what the fortune is to be made out of, 'Possum?"
— from 'Possum by Mary Grant Bruce

On his seventy-fifth birthday he had resigned his profession to take to gardening, and I had heard from no less an authority than the General that "that old fool Theophilus was spending more money in roses than Mrs. Clay was making out of pickles."
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow