I purchased Some fish roe of those pore but kind people with whome I am Encamped for which I gave three Small fish hooks, the use of which they readily proseved, one Indian out all day & killed only one Sammon with his gig; my hunters killed nothing, I had three pack Saddles made to day for our horses which I expected Capt Lewis would purchase &c. Those Sammon which I live on at present are pleasent eateing, not with standing they weaken me verry fast and my flesh I find is declineing H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

p. 237), and quotes Portal in confirmation, that asthmatic patients acquire permanently expanded nostrils, owing to the habitual contraction of the elevatory muscles of the wings of the nose.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

They had made him a useless, aimless being, a waif in the world, a poor old man without any pleasures, any prospects, expecting nothing from anybody or anything.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

First of all, Nature has endowed every species of living creature with the instinct of self-preservation, of avoiding what seems likely to cause injury to life or limb, and of procuring and providing everything needful for life—food, shelter, and the like.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

in all my life Ermyg, n. what claims respect Ermygu, v. to adore, to revere Ern, n. earnest, pledge Ernes, n. earnest, pledge Erniw, n. harm, hurt Erniwed, detriment, hurt Erniwiad, n. a doing harm Erniwiant, n. detriment, hurt Erniwio, v. to harm, to hurt Erniwiol, a. detrimental, hurtful Erno, v. to give earnest money Ernwy, n. briskness, vivacity Ernych, n. that gives anguish Ernychiad, n. a tormenting Ernychol, a. tormenting Ernychu, v. to torment, to vex Ernyd, n. a precipice, a slope Ertrai, n. ebb, ebb tide Erth, n. an effort, a push Erthiad, n. a making effort Erthrwch, n. a tear, anguish Erthu, v. to make effort Erthwch, n. a puffing Erthychain, v. to puff; to groan Erthrychiad, n. a puffing Erthrychu, v. to mangle Erthyl, n. an abortion, untimely birth Erthyliad, n. abortion Erthylog, a. miscarrying Erthylu, v. to miscarry Erw, n. a slang of land; an acre Erwan, n. a stab, a sting Erwaniad, n. a stabbing Erwanu, v. to stab, to sting Erwawd, n. a panegyric Erwch, n. impulse, a drive Erwig, n. dim, plot of land Erwyd, n. a pole, a perch Erwydd, n. coopers’ staves Erwyd deu, n. dim, stave Erwyll, a. gloomy, dusky Erwyn, a. very white, splendid Erwyr, a. oblique, or wry Erydd, n. an eagle Eryf, n. impulsion, a push Eryfed, n. quaffing Eryl, n. a watch, a look Eryr, n. an eagle; the shingles Eryrai, n. the eagle stone Eryran, n. a young eagle Eryrol, a. aquiline, like an eagle Eryres, n. a female eagle Eryri, n. the shingles: Snowdon Erysdyddiau, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

And during all that time a great multitude of natives from the several islands had kept the palace grounds well crowded and had made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the (at other times) forbidden “hula-hula” by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Dont le principal me semble être celui-ci: si, à force de travail, c'est mon personnage principal qui plaît au public, et non ses opposants, la réponse à votre question pourrait être inquiétante… Je préférerais vous en donner une autre, celle que je développe dans une autre oeuvre, Neiges d'anges (incluse dans Les yeux du labyrinthe).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Whether influenced by the tide of cheerfulness which had attended him that day, or by the drive through the open air, or whether from a natural disposition to let bygones alone, he allowed himself to be fascinated into forgetfulness of the greatcoat incident, and upon the whole passed a pleasant evening; not so much in her society as within sound of her voice, as she sat talking in the back parlour to her mother, till the latter went to bed.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

9. B. Rucellai, who was as much at home in that house as in his own, describes in his Commentary De Bello Italico (p. 52), the plundering of books and other valuables, ‘quorum pars a Gallis, pars a paucis e nostris, rem turpissimam, honesta specie praetendentibus, furacissime subrepta sunt, intimis abditisque locis ædium, ubi illi reconditi fuerant, perscrutatis.’
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

All this might have been prevented and possibly even now can be avoided.
— from Vanishing Landmarks: The Trend Toward Bolshevism by Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier) Shaw

Nam quædam, quæ ad ipsius Christi personam alioqui pertinent, et nobis omnino ob prædictam causam cognita esse debent, non naturalia illi sunt, sed a Deo postmodum ipsi data et concessa, et sic ad Dei voluntatem sunt referenda, et quidem ad primam quam fecimus ejus partem,
— from Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

[152] On account of the dense woods with which the Forest was anciently covered, added to the fact that except at Newland, and perhaps at Park End, no churches were page 153 p. 153 built within it, we may conclude that at an early period its population was small, the persons engaged in the iron and coal works then living, as many of the working people do now, in the adjoining parishes.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

“Pease and Plasters, etc. “Nectar and Ambrosia, etc.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

Por aqui passo esta noche un hora antes del alva.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Alexander Peabody, engineer, George F. Smivins, fireman, injured at 10 p.m., October 3, on track 3, near Penryn Ave., Peltonville; engine No. 784 was backing down track 3, and collided with engine No. 1891 standing on that track.
— from Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention by R. C. (Ralph Coffin) Richards

Lee's celebrated pickle and preserve establishment, New York.
— from Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams