Clark, July 1, 1804] July 1st, Sunday 1804 a Small allarm last night all prepared for action, Set out early this morning passed on the North Side of Dimond Island,
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When Alexander knew what promises Demetrius had made Jonathan, and withal knew his courage, and what great things he had done when he fought the Macedonians, and besides what hardships he had undergone by the means of Demetrius, and of Bacchides, the general of Demetrius's army, he told his friends that he could not at present find any one else that might afford him better assistance than Jonathan, who was both courageous against his enemies, and had a particular hatred against Demetrius, as having both suffered many hard things from him, and acted many hard things against him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Pending these weighty negotiations, Philip has persuaded Harry to take a little run up to Fallkill, a not difficult task, for that young man would at any time have turned his back upon all the land in the West at sight of a new and pretty face, and he had, it must be confessed, a facility in love making which made it not at all an interference with the more serious business of life.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

From the dens of Stock-brokerage, from the heights of Political Economy, of Neckerism and Philosophism; from all articulate and inarticulate throats, rise hootings and howlings, such as ear had not yet heard.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This Speech was loudly applauded by all but Lord Sympson , who had secret Expectations himself, but on this Disappointment, grew sullen, and left them, swearing, he did not care who they chose Captain, so it was not a Papist, for against them he had conceiv’d an irreconcileable Hatred, for that his Father had been a Sufferer in Monmouth ’s
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

While science can not at present fully answer these questions, what we do actually know about these pygmies is full of interest.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Enter AUTOLYCUS, Singing Lawn as white as driven snow; Cypress black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses; Masks for faces and for noses; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber; Golden quoifs and stomachers,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But taste is merely a judging and not a productive faculty; and what is appropriate to it is not therefore a work of beautiful art.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Discipline as drill Discipline, however, is frequently regarded as something negative—as a painfully disagreeable forcing of mind away from channels congenial to it into channels of constraint, a process grievous at the time but necessary as preparation for a more or less remote future.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

There was not a place for a cat to crawl up, and here was coming on either side a mass of buffaloes that would soon crush me between them.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

For sure, it's not pretty ; but we can't all have both pretty names and pretty features," and she laughed.
— from Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box by Alice B. Emerson

At first it had seemed to her to be very pleasant that they should have their morning hours for needlework, and perhaps for a little reading; but when she found that Sophy would lie in bed till ten because early rising was not obligatory, then she wished that they had been classed among those whose presence was demanded at eight.
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

In less than a month he restored as well as he could the part of the walls demolished, called back the inhabitants lingering in the neighbourhood, and prepared for a new attack.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

This superstition is a motive in the Cuckoo and the Nightingale , a poem formerly attributed to Chaucer, and as such “modernized” by Wordsworth, but now known to be the work of Sir Thomas Clanvowe .
— from Milton: Minor Poems by John Milton

The gully surrounding it must once have served as an aqueduct, the water having been held back by the dam, which now, and probably for ages, has served as a passageway into the ancient rendezvous.
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

It is too bad to quote the rest of the report, because it mars somewhat the beauty of what goes before; but here it is: "That when the galleries or other sittings are insufficient, we consider it the duty of our brethren and friends to provide the necessary accommodations that none may make such a neglect a plea for absenting themselves from public worship."
— from The American Missionary — Volume 39, No. 03, March, 1885 by Various

It is not always possible for a young person to see why a certain habit should be formed.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

urged to this course by her ministers, but death removed her consort each time, and in the end she was put into captivity by her relative and adopted child, Charles of Durazzo, who had forsaken her to follow the fortunes of the King of Hungary, and who had invaded Naples and put forth a claim to the throne, basing it upon some scheming papal grant which was without legality.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger