in the evening our hunters resumed the chase; as game has become scarce and shye near our camp they were directed to hunt at a greater distance and therefore set out prepared to remain all night and make a mornings hunt in grounds not recently frequented.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

42 You now realise what it was that came to an end with the death on the cross: a new and thoroughly [Pg 184] original effort towards a Buddhistic movement of peace, towards real and not merely promised happiness on earth.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ptolemy became Pharaoh, the god king, and his administration continued the ancient tradition of Pepi, Thotmes, Rameses, and Necho.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

That name was of power to rally a nation, in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone, amid the storm of war, a beacon light, to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed, too, like a meteor, to repel her foes.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

I perceive, in the delegation of power to raise armies, no restriction as to the mode of procuring troops.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

Relations to birds of prey These relations are not so much of the living Caribou as of their bodies after death.
— from The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

It would not matter whether there were a government or not, the inalienable common law rights of an American citizen would continue to exist and the destruction of the government would only remove one of the means of protecting these rights and not destroy the rights themselves.
— from Socialism and American ideals by William Starr Myers

They were led by Joseph Smith, and not only proposed to run a new kind of religion, but introduced polygamy into it.
— from Comic History of the United States by Bill Nye

That name was of power to rally a nation, in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone, amid the storm of war, a beacon light, to cheer and guide the country’s friends; it flamed, too, like a meteor, to repel her foes.
— from Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution by Daniel Webster