every man ingaged either in hunting or Collecting & packing the meat to Camp 5th Day Dispatched one of the party our Interpeter & 2 french men with the 3 horses loaded with the best of the meat to the fort 44 miles Distant, the remaining meat I had packed on the 2 Slays & drawn down to the next point about 3 miles below, at this place I had all the meat Collected which was killed yesterday & had escaped the wolves, Raven & Magpie, (which are verry noumerous about this Place) and put into a close pen made of logs to secure it from the wolves & birds & proceeded on to a large bottom nearly opposit the Chisscheter (heart) River, in this bottom we found but little game, Great No. of wolves, on the hills Saw Several parsels of Buffalow.—Camped.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But I herewith discharge my conscience, and declare that I have had quite enthusiastic movements of admiration towards old gentlemen who spoke the worst English, who were occasionally fretful in their temper, and who had never moved in a higher sphere of influence than that of parish overseer; and that the way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is lovable—the way I have learnt something of its deep pathos, its sublime mysteries—has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighbourhoods where they dwelt.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Now my present mode of life effectually prevents this.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

——— No verses can please men or live long that are written by water-drinkers.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We will now turn to a certain still, cold, cloudy afternoon about the commencement of December, when the first fall of snow lay thinly scattered over the blighted fields and frozen roads, or stored more thickly in the hollows of the deep cart-ruts and footsteps of men and horses impressed in the now petrified mire of last month’s drenching rains.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Without doubt, all these things characterize historic philosophies more or less.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

To deal with him one must stand near, like Rawlins, and practice more or less sympathetic habits.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Beautiful in form, deft and graceful in expression, with not a word too much or one that bears not its part in the total effect, there is yet about the lyrics of Jonson a certain stiffness and formality, a suspicion that they were not quite spontaneous and unbidden, but that they were carved, so to speak, with disproportionate labour by a potent man of letters whose habitual thought is on greater things.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

One woman was shamefully whipped, and several wounded and dragged along the streets; the number of protestants more or less ill treated on this occasion amounted to between seventy and eighty.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

An animal's customary habitat may have constant features and their relations in space may be learned by continuous exploration; but probably many other landscapes are also within the range of memory and fancy that stand in no visible relation to the place in which we find ourselves at a given moment.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Of course it is necessary to prefer some one order for reviewing the Dialogues, and for that purpose more or less of hypothesis must be admitted; but I shall endeavour to assume as little as possible.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

There are three principal forms of wajang, the most common is the wajang kĕlitik or little wajangs, puppets made of leather.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

In France the person making oath lifts his right hand.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

[Transcriber's note: The SI definition of an ampere: A current in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible cross-section, 1 metre apart in vacuum, would produce a force equal to 2E-7 newton per metre of length.] Fig.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

Nature does not make man either good or wicked: she combines machines more or less active, mobile, and energetic; she furnishes him with organs and temperament, of which his passions, more or less impetuous, are the necessary consequence; these passions have always his happiness for their object, his welfare for their end: in consequence they are legitimate, they are natural, they can only be called bad or good, relatively, to the influence they have on the beings of his species.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

In all provincial towns a man who rises a trifle above others becomes, for a period more or less protracted, the object of a liking which resembles enthusiasm, and which usually deceives the object of this ephemeral worship.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Monk, General, character of, 135 Morland, Sir Samuel, on "Paradise Lost," 163 Morus, A., his controversy with Milton, 118 - 119 Myers, Mr. E., on Milton's views of marriage, 91 N. Newton, Bishop, benefits Milton's granddaughter, 195 O. Ochino, B., Milton's indebtedness to, 171 "On a fair Infant," 33 P. Paget, Dr., Milton's physician, 143 , 145 Palingenius, Marcellus, Milton borrows from, 164 Pamphlets, Milton's, 72 , 75 , 78 , 79 , 87 , 99 , 100 , 108 , 113 , 132 , 133 , 136 - 8 "Paradise Lost," 128 ; four schemes for, 129 ; first conceived as drama, 130 ; manner of composition, 147 ; dates of, 147 - 150 ; critique of, 152 - 172 ; successive publications of, 176 "Paradise Regained," 177 ; criticism on, 178 - 180 "Passion of Christ," 32 Pattison, Mark, on "Lycidas," 51 ; on Milton's political career, 68 ; on fanaticism of Commonwealth, 133 ; on "Paradise Lost," 159 ; on Milton's diction, 165 "Penseroso, Il," 40 , 49 204 Pepys, S., on Restoration, 135 , 138 Petty France, Westminster, Milton's home in, 117 Philaras, Milton's Greek friend, 114 Phillips, E., Milton's brother-in-law, 22 , 65 Phillips, Edward, Milton's nephew, on Milton's ancestry, 14 ; educated by his uncle, 65 ; his account of Milton's separation from his first wife, 87 ; of their reconciliation, 96 ; becomes a Royalist, 129 ; his attention to his uncle, 145 ; on "Paradise Lost," 176 ; on "Paradise Regained," 177 "Pilot of the Galilean Lake," 49 "Plymouth Brethren," resemblance of Milton's views to, 133 Powell, Mary, Milton marries, 86 ; she leaves him, 87 ; returns to him, 95 ; her family live with Milton, 98 ; her death, 116 ; probable bad influence on her daughters, 163 "Prelatical Episcopacy" pamphlet, 72 "Pro Populo" pamphlet, 113 Ptolemaic system followed by Milton in "Paradise Lost," 157 Puckering, Sir H., gave Milton's MSS.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

I was going along, making money, playing my own little hand for all it was worth.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

The letter ran on for a page more of lively gossip and then, with a sudden change, ended:
— from In the Quarter by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

To this spot I used to travel down in all weathers; sometimes when it was so slippery on the hill behind the carriage-house (for the garden paths were impassable in winter) that I have had to return to primitive methods of locomotion, and just sit down and coast half the way on the crust.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various