Legins of Goat Skin & a Buffalow robe, 14 ring of Brass on his fingers, this metel the Mandans ar verry fond off—Cold after noon river rise 11/2 Inch to day H2 anchor [Clark, December 7, 1804] at Fort mandan 7th of December 1804, we were informed by a Chief that great numbers of Buffalow were on the hills near us Cap Lewis with a party went out & Killed 11three in view of our fort, The weather so excesive Cold & wolves plenty, we only saved 5 of them, I with a party turned on the 8th out and found the Buffalow at 7 ms. distant Killed 8 & a Deer, I returned with 2 Cows leaving men with remaining meat—Several men badly frost bit—The Themormeter Stood this morning at 44 d. below Breizing.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In 1890, the citizen population of the Nation (under Chickasaw laws) consisted of 3,941 full-blood and mixed-blood Chickasaw, 681 adopted whites, 131 adopted negroes, and 946 [ 500 ] adopted Indians from other tribes, chiefly Choctaws.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

‘It was no un common loss, ma’am,’ returned Ralph, as he coolly unbuttoned his spencer.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Onorum memoriam apud Mediolanum colentes nunc usque Christiani loculos ubi sepulti sunt, ad innocentes appellant.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The natives use comparatively little water, since it is only for drinking purposes, washing being unknown, and as the water sinks in the well the sand is scooped out gradually and carefully and plastered round the sides of the hole, so preventing the inrush of sand.
— from Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie

There was no use calling Laura.
— from The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle

Never use celery leaves for beef soup.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

Now, under Christmas license no girl is particularly averse to being kissed, and had Molyneux gone a little more gently about it, Helen had probably offered no more than the conventional resistance.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

"You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them."
— from Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tapper

“I think it would have been better done on one's knees in the closet,” is Mr. Kelly's quaint and not unfair comment (Lectures on the Minor Prophets, p. 324), unless, as is not unlikely, he copied what was done before.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

It's dreadful to be the one chick in a family of ugly ducklings—" "Or the ugly duckling in a family of virtuous chicks—" "Not ugly, chÂrie ," laughed the Countess.
— from Madcap by George Gibbs

He was not uncomfortably clever, like Tony Cornish.
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

The Christians of Electoral Saxony, of Luneburg, of Anhalt, [75] of Hesse and the Margravate, of Strasburg, Nuremberg, Ulm, Constance, Lindau, Memmingen, Kempten, Nordlingen, Heilbron, Reutlingen, Isny, Saint Gall, Weissenburg, and Windsheim, clasped each other's hands on the 25th April, near the church of St. John, in the face of threatening persecutions.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

The son of a farmer, and exercising the calling of a carpenter until nearly thirty, Palmer did not yield to the artistic yearnings of his nature until comparatively late in life.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin