I will gleam like the cloud, gleam in the sunshine of life, look out over the whole like the cloud, and pass away like it, no one knoweth whither.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

which we Camped last night, (1) passed a Small willow Island off the L. point, hills make near the river (2) passed a large Island nearest the L. S. below the pt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

examined and passed this rapid close to the Island at 8 miles lower passed a large Island near the middle of the river a brook on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

” “Oh, yes,” he cried, “that was my only prayer at last; I no longer begged for liberty, but memory; I dreaded to become mad and forgetful.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Giovanni had not considered with himself what should be his deportment; whether he should apologize for his intrusion into the garden, or assume that he was there with the privity at least, if not by the desire, of Dr. Rappaccini or his daughter; but Beatrice's manner placed him at his ease, though leaving him still in doubt by what agency he had gained admittance.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I found he was at Oxford, with his friend Mr. Chambers, who was now Vinerian Professor, and lived in New Inn Hall.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

As for the first, which was so vastly big, for I made it without considering beforehand, as I ought to have done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I was obliged to let it lie where it was as a memorandum to teach me to be wiser the next time: indeed, the next time, though I could not get a tree proper for it, and was in a place where I could not get the water to it at any less distance than, as I have said, near half a mile, yet, as I saw it was practicable at last, I never gave it over; and though I was near two years about it, yet I never grudged my labour, in hopes of having a boat to go off to sea at last.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

How much is comprehended in that manly, yet respectful sentence: “If he accepts our services, then he is our prince and leader; if not, but our equal, and we again his brothers, claimants of and laying claim to the soil.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But though many people have made a little money by insurance, very few have made a great fortune; and, from this consideration alone, it seems evident enough that the ordinary balance of profit and loss is not more advantageous in this than in other common trades, by which so many people make fortunes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In aristocratic countries, the same notions of honor are always entertained by only a few persons, always limited in number, often separated from the rest of their fellow-citizens.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"But, Elsie, my dear, don't allow anxious fears to disturb you; we are a very moral people at Lansdale; I never heard of a robbery there yet."
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

[Pg 237] Houses of prostitution are less in number by forty per cent., so the chief of police informed me, and I saw a large number of them closed.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

Chucagua, 288 Chuchacas, Chuchachas, 745 Chumpa on some maps is Cumpa Chupadera mesa, 631 churches of Chihuahua, 764 , 765 , 766 Churchville, Ia., 14 Chusco is Chasco and Chaco Chusco r., 731 Chute de la Roche Peinte, 123 , 316 Cia , 604 , 605 , 745 , was a large pueblo till after the revolt of 1680 Cibola, Seven Cities of, 630 , 742 Cibolleta, N. M., 628 Cibolo r., 697 , 703 874 Cicuique, Cicuye, 737 Cienega Apache, 637 Cienega Grande, Hacienda de, 682 Cienega, N. M., see Vitior Cieneguilla, N. M., 614 , see Tziguma and Vitior Cilla, 745 Cimarone r., 552 , 554 cimarron, 438 Cimarron, Kas., 437 , 438 , 439 Cimarron r., 438 , 552 , 553 , 554 , 555 , 556 , 705 Cimarron r., or Salt fk. of Ark. r., 552 , 553 , 554 Cimarron route, 426 , 439 Cimmaron r., see Cimarron r. Cinaloa, 774 Cincinnati, Ill., 7 Cincinnati ldg., 7 , 8 Cincinnati, O., xxvi , xxxi , 446 , 836 Cincinnati, Wis., 34 Cincinnatti, O., 836 Cinyumuh, 744 Cioux, 313 , see Sioux Cistus creticus, 494 Cities of Cibola, 630 , 742 City of the Pines, 130 City of Vera Cruz, 722 Ciudad Juarez, 641 Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, 691 Ciudad Victoria, 724 Civil War, 634 civilized Indians, 752 , 753 Civola is Cibola Civona is Cibola Claflin, Kas., 424 Claiborne, Gen. F. L., xxvi , xxvii Claiborne, Gen. W. C. C., 660 Clark co., Mo., 12 , 13 , 14 Clark co., Wis., 52 Clarke co., Kas., 556 Clarke cr., at Lake Itasca, named by Brower for Hopewell Clarke Clarke, Hopewell, 167 , 336 Clarke l., at Lake Itasca, named by A. J. Hill for Hopewell Clarke Clarke pool, at Lake Itasca, named by Brower for Hopewell Clarke Clark, Geo.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Wyneken, who, in his pamphlet The Distress of the German Lutherans in North America , had characterized the General Synod as Reformed in doctrine, Methodistic in practise, and Lutheran in name only, demanded at Philadelphia that Synod either renounce the name Lutheran, or reject as utterly un-Lutheran Schmucker's Popular Theology, Appeal, Portraiture of Lutheranism , etc., Kurtz's On Infant Baptism, Why You Are a Lutheran , and the Lutheran Observer , as well as the Hirtenstimme of Weyl.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

But those who contend that the jury have a right to determine the constitutionality of a law, insist not for the power of the jury to decide its true construction and whether the prisoner’s case comes within it, but to decide whether what is produced as law is not void, a mere nullity, a dead letter; or in other words, whether such a law is in existence.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The importance of this episode, born of the most strangely mingled motives of conscience, policy, and lust, is not that, as sometimes said, it proved the English people ready to follow their government in religious matters as sheep follow their shepherd.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

The white invaders suffered heavily, in property at least, if not much in their own lives, at the hands of the invaded.
— from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth

[Pg xxv] Thus much as to the Method and Alterations of this Catalogue: Now as to the Remarks, which are of three sorts; the first of use, and the other two conducing to Pleasure at least, if not to Profit likewise.
— from Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage (1688[1687]) by Gerard Langbaine

She professes a passion for flowers; but last spring, coz, I helped her make her garden, and heard her say ‘ piney ’ and ‘ layloc ’—I never could marry a woman who said ‘ piney ’ and ‘ layloc !’
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, January 1849 by Various