in view in every directions—we are informed that the Sioux has latterly taken horses from the Big Bellies or Minitaries and on their way homerwards they fell in with the Assinniboins who killed them and took the horses & a frenchman Menard who resided with the Mandan for 20 years past was Killed a fiew days ago on his way from the Britishment astablishments on the Assineboin River, 150 miles N. of this place to the mandans by the assinniboin Indians—we were frequently Called to by parties of Indians & requested to land & talk, passed a verry bad place & Camped on a Point S S. opposit a high hill Several Indians visit us this evening the Sun of the late great Chief of the Mandans who had 2 of his fingers off and appeared to be pearced in maney places on inquiring the reason, was informed that it was a testimony to their grief for Deceased freinds, they frequently Cut off Sevral fingers & pierced themselves in Different parts, a Mark of Savage effection, wind hard from the S. W. verry Cold R Fields with a Rhumitisum in his Neck one man R. in his hips my Self much better, Those Indians appear to have Similar Customs with the Ricaras, their Dress the Same more mild in their language & justures &c. &c. H2 anchor [Clark, October 25, 1804] 25th of October Thursday 1804 a Cold morning Set out early under a gentle Breeze from the S. E. by E proceeded on, passed (1) the 3rd old Village of the Mandans which has been Desd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On this last evening, I dressed my self out in my new clothes for their delight, and sat in my splendor until bedtime.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In those days the Commodore was making some of those vast combinations of his—consolidations of warring odds and ends of railroads into harmonious systems, and concentrations of floating and rudderless commerce in effective centers—and among other things his farseeing eye had detected the convergence of that huge tobacco-commerce, already spoken of, toward Memphis, and he had resolved to set his grasp upon it and make it his own.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

”—“I believe,” cries he, “you don't care to hear o'em; but the country interest may succeed one day or other for all that.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In the logical estimation of magnitude the impossibility of ever arriving at absolute totality, by means of the progress of the measurement of things of the sensible world in time and space, was cognised as objective, i.e. as an impossibility of thinking the infinite as entirely given; and not as merely subjective or that there was only an incapacity to grasp it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And something may strike out for me there.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And all this moved, or seemed to move, as the smoke and mist spread out over the whole space.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When night returned, Emily recollected the mysterious strains of music, that she had lately heard, in which she still felt some degree of interest, and of which she hoped to hear again the soothing sweetness.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

" King Magnus set out to sea from Agder, and sailed over to Jutland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Cease firing, and let it drift away a bit.” Three and four times the bugles shrieked the order, and when it was obeyed the Fore and Aft looked that their foe should be lying before them in mown swaths of men.
— from Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

"Every June thousand of pilgrims would pass through Archangel on their way to the famous far north shrine, Solovetsky Monastery, situated on an island a little more than half a day's boat journey from Archangel.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

[Pg 192] On the Municipal Statute of 1870 and on the Conscription Statute of 1874, see Spravka , Part II, pp. 127-138, 142-209.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

The coast washed by the Gulf of Mexico is eight hundred miles south of Harper’s Ferry on the Potomac; the Rio Grande, the river boundary of Texas, is seventeen hundred miles west of Charleston on the Atlantic.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Out of the dark thickets come wonderful forms, created by his own spirit; and they remain his; because the mysterious spells of light, of colour, and of form dwell within him, and he fixes down for ever that which his mental vision has seen, representing it to the senses.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Soon after midday sailors on passing ships saw that the island had vanished behind a dense cloud of black vapor, the height of which was estimated at not less than seventeen miles.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

In the daytime a grave old man, book in hand, will take his station at a street corner, and read to a number of men sitting on the ground, and listening with rapt attention to his words.
— from Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt

The old man sprang out of the cab again and ran into a tavern.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Divide with me your sole results of active energy upon my source of wealth, or else you may be sure you have only the right to starve from drain by others without this supply.
— from The Impending Crisis Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States by Basil A. Bouroff