As I regained my full senses I found his weapon piercing my left breast, but only through the flesh and muscles which cover my ribs, entering near the center of my chest and coming out below the shoulder.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is the business of a chief to provide against such misapprehensions by most careful previous explanation of both the letter and spirit of his plans.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

the earth above that for 30 or 40 feet is a brownish yellow, a number of bars of corse gravil and Stones of different Shape & Size &c. Saw a number of rattle Snakes to day one of the men cought one by the head in Catch'g hold of a bush on which his head lay reclined three canoes were in great danger today one diped water, another was near turning over &c. at 2 oClock P M a fiew drops of rain I walked thro a point and killed a Buck Elk & Deer, and we camped on the Stard Side, the Interpreters woman verry Sick worse than She has been.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Only I disliked now to put them out, because they will be like the late new Halfepence, xii which, though the Siluer were good, yet the Peeces were small.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The merchants were checked and discountenanced; they had often been told, by some in authority, of the cheap rate at which these Canada bills had been procured; yet the author can talk of the composition of them as a necessity induced by the change in administration.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Both leads being perfectly well defined, it was easy for any miner to see which one belonged to the Wide West and which did not.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

" "What can't?" "Our being together—and not together.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

An old Brahman told me two stories; an old barber, three; an old servant of mine told me two; and the rest I heard from another old Brahman.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

“You’d much better have gone somewhere in our province at harvest-time if you wanted to ‘make a personal experiment’ instead of bolting to America.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price of the corn, the profits of the miller, and the wages of his servants; in the price of bread, the profits of the baker, and the wages of his servants; and in the price of both, the labour of transporting the corn from the house of the farmer to that of the miller, and from that of the miller to that of the baker, together with the profits of those who advance the wages of that labour.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To this Macedonius answered that this could not be done except in an ecumenical council presided over by the bishop of Rome.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

In the evening I prepared to go on board the vessel bound for Tangier, trusting in what the Jewish secretary had told me as to its sailing.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

The door was open between the two rooms and as the place was not large, Jonas heard every word that passed between Johnny and Alie almost as well as if he had been close beside them.
— from False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve by Unknown

As the Governor came on board, the Russian ensign was hoisted at the fore, and when our friends left us, the Claymore’s four little cannon fired a salute, with much military, or rather naval, precision.
— from Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes by Andrée Hope

The weather continuing fine, in a few days the party left Zielime; and the palatine and Somerset, being so far restored from their wounds that they could walk, the one with a crutch and the other by the support of his friend's arm, they went through the journey with animation and pleasure.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

“Already there is much said about the great commercial value of these pine lands, and there is not the slightest doubt that as soon as the region is opened by the government the work of destruction will commence, which will speedily lay bare the soil and subject it to the drying influences of the sun and wind, or to the forest fires, which will kill every young growth which appears, and destroy even tree seed, which has been borne there by the winds.
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones

This symphony bears the distinction of being the first musical work in that form by a Russian composer.
— from The Mentor: Russian Music, Vol. 4, Num. 18, Serial No. 118, November 1, 1916 by Henry T. Finck

Moreover, individual Maori sometimes shipped as sailors on board the vessels that touched on their coasts; and so Marsden was able to judge of the character of the race from the actual specimens he saw.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

The debauchery bordering on madness was opposed by the opposite extreme, rigorous self-denial.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

Newton, who was standing by her, was overcome by the intensity of his feelings; gradually they approached nearer, until by, I suppose, the same principle which holds the universe together—the attraction of cohesion—Newton's arm encircled the waist of Isabel, and she sobbed upon his shoulder.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat