the wind had prevented his going to the fisery on the opposite side of the river above the Wackiacums, and also as we had suspected, prevented his return as early as he would otherwise have been back.—The dogs at the Cathlahmahs had bitten the trong assunder which confined his canoe and she had gone a drift.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the wind had prevented his going to the fishery on the opposit Side of the river above the Waukiecum's, and also as we had suspected, prevented his return as early as he otherwise would have been back.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Out of the daily wages of the porters, he received an eighth, and from the gains of common prostitutes, what they received for one favour granted.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

We must also place to the credit of the establishment of property, and consequently to the institution of society, assassinations, poisonings, highway robberies, and even the punishments inflicted on the wretches guilty of these crimes; which, though expedient to prevent greater evils, yet by making the murder of one man cost the lives of two or more, double the loss to the human race.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They wore their plumed hats, right along, except that whenever one addressed himself directly to the king, he lifted his hat a trifle just as he was beginning his remark.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

The Abbé Picquet visited Niagara and the Portage above (Queenston or Lewiston); and in connection with his observations on those points he refers again expressly to Toronto.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He started out on foot by the familiar route across the Stanovoi Mountains to Okhotsk, which place he reached after enduring great hardship and suffering; but even here he found no roof for shelter.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

67 While the Persian monarch contemplated the wonders of his art and power, he received an epistle from an obscure citizen of Mecca, inviting him to acknowledge Mahomet as the apostle of God.
— 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

While the Persian monarch contemplated the wonders of his art and power, he received an epistle from an obscure citizen of Mecca, inviting him to acknowledge Mahomet as the apostle of God.
— 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

At last, to complete a series of minor indiscretions, at a meeting of our Local Speculative Society held at the palace of the Prefect himself,—some extremely silly person having read an elaborate paper exhibiting the precise reasons why Providence has limited the number of Dimensions to Two, and why the attribute of omnividence is assigned to the Supreme alone—I so far forgot myself as to give an exact account of the whole of my voyage with the Sphere into Space, and to the Assembly Hall in our Metropolis, and then to Space again, and of my return home, and of everything that I had seen and heard in fact or vision.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

At Canterbury and the other towns through which he passed he received an enthusiastic welcome, while his entry into London was a triumph.
— from At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Promoters had unloaded the Portland road and later the Detroit and Port Huron road at excessive prices.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

Here and there dilapidated green lattices shaded upper windows, and nearer the ground narrow openings were guarded by rusty iron bars; but some of the houses showed blank outer walls, and the plaza had rather an Eastern than an American look.
— from The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

The cylinder was that before which Phœbe had read an extract from the volume on Bacon's supposed parentage and his writings while she was at the North Pole.
— from The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye

Most of them had played in pieces where much the same thing had happened to the persecuted heroine round about eleven o'clock, and the situation struck them as theatrically sound.
— from The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Here Lodovico holds his Parnassus; here rare and excellent artists flock as bees to seek honey from the flowers; here, chief among them all, is the new Apelles whom he has brought from Florence."
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

Gentlemen may say that Delaware is the smallest State; but let it be remembered, sir, that her rights are equally sacred with those of the largest States; and although her citizens are not so numerous, yet, sir, their State sovereignty and other constitutional rights are quite as dear and valuable to them, as the blessing can be to any other people; and, let me add, sir, she is among the oldest States; her history travels back through the bloody scenes of your Revolution; she dates her era at your Declaration of Independence, and I am proud to say, and can do so without detracting from her neighbors, in proportion to her population, her resources, and extent, during the severe contest for American liberty, she contributed, in blood and treasure, as freely to its support and permanent establishment, as any State in the Union.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Ned passed his rifle, after extracting the ball-cartridge, and the American began taking it to pieces at once.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn