that I would in the mean time proceed on to the Enesher Nation above the Great falls and try to purchase Some horses of that people.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But, again, the process is simplified by dividing the product of the two extreme numbers by the middle number.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Passing by those grand romances of 'Ivanhoe,' 'Old Mortality,' and 'Kenilworth,' with their terrible intricacies of crime and bloodshed, constructed with so fine a mastery of the art of exciting suspense and horror, let the reader pick out those two exceptional novels in the series which profess to paint contemporary manners and the scenes of common life; and remembering [pg xviii] in the 'Antiquary' the vision in the tapestried chamber, the duel, the horrible secret, and the death of old Elspeth, the drowned fisherman, and above all the tremendous situation of the tide-bound party under the cliffs; and in 'St. Ronan's Well,' the long-drawn mystery, the suspicion of insanity, and the catastrophe of suicide;—determine whether an epithet which it would be a profanation to apply to the structure of any, even the most exciting of Sir Walter Scott's stories, is fairly applicable to tales which, though illimitably inferior in execution, yet observe the same limitations of incident, and the same moral aims.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Poetelian law no doubt had allowed a debtor, who had become unable to pay only through temporary embarrassments, not through genuine insolvency, to save his personal freedom by the cession of his property;(70) nevertheless for the really insolvent that principle of law, though doubtless modified in secondary points, had been in substance retained unaltered for five hundred years; a direct recourse to the debtor's estate only occurred exceptionally, when the debtor had died or had forfeited his burgess-rights or could not be found.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

So in like manner we must assume that the development of the bronze celt extended over a long period of time; that each new improvement was communicated from tribe to tribe and from nation to nation; but that each country manufactured its own implements, and varied in the construction of them.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

Let one observe in full proof of this the educational number of the Crisis , published in July of each year.
— from Your Negro Neighbor by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

When the royal arms of France were raised at Sault St. Marie, New England was pushing out toward the east, not the west.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

We must at once point out that there existed no such thing as public education ; as regards public instruction , Korea entirely followed the Chinese system.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

He at last arrives at Mr. Lammeter's marriage, and how the clergyman, when he came to put the questions, inadvertently transposed the position of the two essential names, and asked, "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded wife?" etc.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

“This afternoon I made a point of talking to every native in the clearing.
— from Impact by Irving E. Cox

Every phase of this treatment, every new development, is watched with suspense and hope.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various