we also passed another creek a few miles below Turtle Creek on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"What shall I doe to inherit eternall life?" Answered (verse 20) "Thou knowest the Commandements, Doe not commit Adultery, Doe not Kill, Doe not Steal, Doe not bear false witnesse, Honor thy Father, and thy Mother;" which when he said he had observed, our Saviour added, "Sell all thou hast, give it to the Poor, and come and follow me:" which was as much as to say, Relye on me that am the King: Therefore to fulfill the Law, and to beleeve that Jesus is the King, is all that is required to bring a man to eternall life.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil—” Oh, I tell you it was a smasher!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Thence home and to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed, and had a very pleasing and condescending answer from my poor father to-day in answer to my angry discontentful letter to him the other day, which pleases me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As his late house, and the first houre speaks plaine, And chirps alowd for meat.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

We turn aside a heap of political matter, of no great merit or value; a few pamphlets, of some talent, but fugitive interest, by Girardin and others; a ream of portraits and caricatures; a few more novels whose authors' names or whose first pages condemn them; Mourir pour la Patrie , and some other revolutionary staves, bad music and worse words, and the box is empty.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 by Various

Then add 1 small can of shredded pineapple and crush a few macaroons.
— from 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year by Unknown

Lower powers are constitutionally arranged to be overcome; higher powers are constitutionally arranged for mastery.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

And the easel is handed out to him; and the palette and canvases; and finally Mary Avon herself.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume I by William Black

They’ve pitched a camp a few miles back of here.
— from White Tail the Deer's Adventures by George Ethelbert Walsh

We take the words of Christ, “If thou wouldst be perfect, go sell what thou hast, give it to the poor, and come and follow me,” in their full and complete literal meaning.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various