(Not signed.) COUNCIL Held at fort Pontchartrain, in lake Erie strait, the 9th June, 1704.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

She plays German songs--some of the familiar songs in the collections, or something of Lassen's or Weit's, or Abt's, or one of a thousand other songs, and the playing is like exquisite singing.
— from From the Easy Chair, Volume 1 by George William Curtis

This pin is large enough so that the spinner can conveniently hold it with his left hand when necessary, and it can also be rapidly changed to different holes.
— from Metal Spinning by C. Tuells

Quale per incertam lunam et sub luce malignâ : such is our journey, with Etna, a grey ghost, behind our path, and the reflections of stars upon the sea, and glow-worms in the hedges, and the mystical still splendour of the night, that, like Death, liberates the soul, raising it above all common things, simplifying the outlines of the earth as well as our own thoughts to one twilight hush of aërial tranquillity.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

He came back from there a year ago, and has been lording it over some people in London ever since.
— from Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences by St. George Rathborne

A bright effulgence beamed From on high, and streamed Far upward and around; it seemed That his work on earth was done, That his mortal course was run, Life’s battle fought and won; That he stood alone, Happy, light and free, Listening to sweetest melody, And softest harmony, From the etherial plains, In loud extatic strains, Such as no mortal ear Could bear, or be allowed to hear.
— from Rand and the Micmacs by Jeremiah S. Clark

He had been a prisoner in London ever since the battle of Agincourt, and was popular in his day, as he has continued to be in French history, on the double ground of having been the father of Louis XII.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot