&c. &c. after Dinner we gave Mr. Peter Darion, a Comission to act with a flag & some Cloathes & Provisions & instructions to bring about a peace with the Scioux Mahars, Panies, Ponceries, Ottoes & Missouries—and to employ any trader to take Some of the Cheifs of each or as many of those nations as he Could Perticularly the Sceiouex—I took a Vocabulary of the Scioux Language—and the Answer to a fiew quaries Such as refured to ther Situation, Trade, number War, &c. &c.—This Nation is Divided into 20 Tribes, possessing Seperate interests- Collectively they are noumerous Say from 2 to 3000 men, their interests are so unconnected that Some bands are at war with Nations which other bands are on the most friendly terms.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
frère , m. , né du même pere, de la même mere.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
H2 anchor Want Of Mony Hitherto I have named such Diseases of a Common-wealth, as are of the greatest, and most present danger.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Everything relating to women's haughtiness or pride, to their habits of modesty and its excesses, to certain delicacies, for the most part dependent wholly on associations of feelings, [6] which cannot exist for men, and often delicacies not founded on Nature—all these things, I say, can only find their way here so far as it is permissible to write from hearsay.
— from On Love by Stendhal
As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
“Ah, my poor d’Artagnan!” said Athos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The poisons generated by remorse inveigh against the system, and eventually produce marked physical deterioration.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
He reflected that this second grotto must penetrate deeper into the island; he examined the stones, and sounded one part of the wall where he fancied the opening existed, masked for precaution’s sake.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
The more probable derivation of the word is from a place called Tobaco in Yucatan from which the herb was first sent to the New World."
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
You said that you did not get into much political discussion with him.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
[Pg 26] "Old Mr. Pembroke dead?" asked the boy as we entered.
— from A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells
Stuart Denville himself, the Master of the Ceremonies, is most powerfully drawn.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde
M. Polperro did not know what to make of this big Englishman who had come in out of the night, bringing no luggage with him but one little bag.
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes
And now from here in “my poetic distance,” I will ask you again: “What do you say, Uvar Ivanovitch, will there be?”’
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
We of course took every precaution against surprise; for though the Spaniards had been so signally defeated, some roving bands of Indians attached to their cause might possibly discover and attack us.
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston
Also other papers, as "Bits of Ribbon," suggesting as just and wise the more profuse distribution of honours,—in particular recommending an Alfred or an Albert Order.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
Mr. Pantin ignored the accusation, and observed astutely: “I presume you’ve done your share of talking, and that’s why—” “She is impossible, and what you ask is impossible,” Mrs. Pantin declared firmly.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart
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