Wednesday 1804 I went with ten men to a Creek Damed by the Beavers about half way to the Village, with Some Small willow & Bark we mad a Drag and haulted up the Creek, and Cought 318 fish of different kind i'e Peke, Bass, Salmon, perch, red horse, Small Cat, and a kind of perch Called Silverfish, on the Ohio.—I cought a Srimp prosisely of Shape Size & flavour of those about N. Orleans & the lower party of the Mississippi in this Creek which is only the pass or Streight from Beaver Pond to another, is Crouded with large Mustles Verry fat, Ducks, Pliver of different Kinds are on those Ponds as well as on the river in My absence
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But the subtle policy, for which the Vatican has so often been praised or arraigned, was on this occasion blind and inactive; and if it were true that Celestine the Third had kicked away the Imperial crown from the head of the prostrate Henry, such an act of impotent pride could serve only to cancel an obligation and provoke an enemy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Their different principles compose some of the strongest political lines which discriminate the parties even now subsisting amongst us.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I am too inquisitive, too incredulous, too high spirited, to be satisfied with such a palpably clumsy solution of things.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Above it is the mountain Solyma 209 and Termessus, 210 a Pisidic city, situated on the defiles, through which there is a pass over the mountain to Milyas.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Other questions absorbed the attention of military commanders; and by way of illustration I here insert a few letters from my "letter-book," which contains hundreds on similar subjects: HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION Memphis, Tennessee, August 11, 1862 Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And one morning I saw her in an overall and a Phrygian cap, sketching on the sea-front with a great crowd admiring her a little way off.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

From some delicate scruple, for which I gave him full credit, he left off climbing the stair to my study as heretofore, and if we met in the streets we soon parted with a commonplace word or two, and a pretty cool shake of the hand.
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

The speed now was wonderful, the long elastic vessel bent and glided like some live creature over the swell, and had the blacks had another mile to go, the fate of the two prisoners would have been sealed; but at full speed now the yacht, with sail after sail shaken out to the help of the propeller, came up hand over hand, and when pretty close swayed off to windward, curved round as she glided by, and was once more answering her helm in the other direction, racing for the canoe’s bows, the steering being so true that the fore-part was forced under water while the stern rose slowly in the air.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

These potentialities can only become operative under the influence of external conditions; their stimulation into activity depends on the degree of concentration of the various solutions, on the nature of the particular calcium salt, on the acid or alkaline reactions.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

In framework, it is framed as a response partly to some questions that our present witness has posed in a letter, which Mr. Robert Oswald had written in response to the letter of November 8, such as a question as to why Lee Harvey Oswald and his fellow workers and communists would like to see the present capitalist system of the United States overthrown—he having made an indication to the witness in that respect.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The gathering of many people caught sight of them presently, and came to meet them, three little girls in mild mourning.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

Glimpses of parks, caught sight of through the iron gates, a background of dark shrubberies in the distance, flower-beds glowing in the brightness of a September day, here and there a circle of garden chairs on a terrace, forgotten like the idle talk that has melted into thin air, garden tools leaning against the palings, all spoke of a rural existence hastily interrupted, a precipitate flight, the sudden surprise, in the midst of its life, of a small Pompeï, whose last hour has struck.
— from Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 by Alphonse Daudet

Napoleon is called the Egyptian, the Italian, for reasons similar to those for which Publius Cornelius Scipio obtained the name of "Africanus."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various

Black, portentous clouds scurried over the face of the sky, and sheets of icy cold rain poured upon the earth.
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.