We Set out early passed a Small Creek on the right at 1 mile and the points of four mountains verry Steap high & rockey, the assent of three was So Steap that it is incrediable to describe the rocks in maney places loose & Sliped from those mountains and is a bed of rugid loose white and dark brown loose rock for miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Finally, Kit informed the gentleman that the premises were now to let, and that a board upon the door referred all inquirers to Mr Sampson Brass, Solicitor, of Bevis Marks, from whom he might perhaps learn some further particulars.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Ideas themselves he considered as mysterious powers, living, seminal, formative, and exempt from time.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda la qual per me ha 'l titol de la fame, e che conviene ancor ch'altrui si chiuda, m'avea mostrato per lo suo forame piu` lune gia`, quand'io feci 'l mal sonno che del futuro mi squarcio` 'l velame.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

In the first place, then, I would suggest that they might possibly learn something from them.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

My reflections were too undefined and fragmentary to merit record: I hardly yet knew where I was; Gateshead and my past life seemed floated away to an immeasurable distance; the present was vague and strange, and of the future I could form no conjecture.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"Oh, Mr. Percival," Letitia said, flushing, "you could not say a kinder thing."
— from Miss Primrose: A Novel by Roy Rolfe Gilson

There began a considerable speculation in claims on Frenchman's Hill; merchants planned larger stocks for the next season; the price of town lots doubled.
— from The Winds of Chance by Rex Beach

Jerome sat himself contented down, and put me through my paces like some farrier showing off a foundered nag.
— from The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Harris Dickson

He understood how it was that men paid large sums for such capable beasts.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap

Yet a boy may possibly learn something from our work.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro