three of our party found in the back of a bottom 3 pieces of Scarlet one brace in each, which had been left as a Sacrifice near one of their Swet houses, on the L. S. we passed to day a curious collection of bushes tied up in the shape of fascene about 10 feet diamuter, which must have been left also by the natives as an offering to their medison which they Convinced protected or gave them relief near the place, the wind Continued to blow hard from the West, altho not Sufficently So to detain us, I walked on Shore and killed an Elk & had him bucchured by the time the Perogus Came up which was the usial time of dineing.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Coffee in restaurants is served "white" (with milk), or black, in earthen, stoneware, or silver pots.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Having spoken of this city, the original, and increase, by degrees: the walls, gates, ditch, castles, towers, bridges, the schools, and houses of learning: of the orders and customs, sports, and pastimes: of the honour of citizens, and worthiness of men: and last of all, how the same city is divided into parts and wards: and how the same be bounded: and what monuments of antiquity, or ornaments of building, in every of them, as also in the borough of Southwark: I am next to speak briefly of the suburbs, as well without the gates and walls as without the liberties, and of the monuments in them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It would be quite correct to say that it originates or begins its effects in the world of sense from itself, although the action productive of these effects does not begin in itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Such language would defeat its own object by its extravagance.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

“The blood of these accursed dogs,” said the Grand Master, “shall be a sweet and acceptable offering to the saints and angels whom they despise and blaspheme; and with their aid will we counteract the spells and charms with which our brother is entwined as in a net.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

"The ghost!" continued Richard, in a low voice, as though fearing lest he should be overheard by invisible ears.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

I knew not the reason of this order, but I ended by becoming used to my beard as one gets used to everything.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But our man of business is in no hurry to conclude a contract with any—no man of business is ever precipitate—and it is not until the most rigid catechism in respect to the piety of each young gentleman’s inclination, that his services are engaged and his fifty dollars receipted for, just by way of proper precaution, on the part of the respectable firm of Bogs, Hogs, Logs, Frogs, and Company.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

From the centre of black immensity effulgence burst forth.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Although the growing of beans is easy enough, the harvesting is a difficult proposition, because in California the clusters ripen from time to time, have to be gathered by hand, to be put in the sun to dry, and finally threshed when they are popping properly.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

If anybody tries to break in here against orders, they'll git a dose of buckshot in 'em."
— from The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds by Edward Stratemeyer

The millipede is what he loathes; He uses fierce bucolic oaths Because it eats his roots; And every gardener is agreed That, if you see a centipede Conversing with a milli—, On one of them you drop a stone, The other one you leave alone— I think that's rather silly.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 by Various

Whose Speech flew over Germany, like fire over dry flax; and still exists,—both Speeches now oftenest rolled into one by inaccurate editors.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

We have already seen to what a complicated organisation of economic life this led in the case of Proudhon's theory; but he did not entrust the maintenance of this economic order to the strong hand of the State, but believed that life, when once brought into equilibrium or "balance," could never fall away from it again.
— from Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by E. V. (Ernst Viktor) Zenker

[230] Highly [90] objectionable from our point of view, however, is the fact that our best informants (especially Howitt and Spencer and Gillen) describe the facts of sexual life of to-day in terms of their hypothetical assumptions.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

It has had a power above all other books in English to stir the imagination and move the soul, and this without regard to any particular religious belief.
— from Literature for Children by Orton Lowe

Jesus was seen in everything—in the fauna, the flora, the structure of buildings, in every decoration, in the use of Page 331 colour.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

His writings teem with expressions of belief in existence after death.
— from The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald