our Councils, that this Cheif was on his way to see their Great Father the P. of U S. and was under our protection that if any enjorey was done to him by any nation that we Should all die to a man.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Dudu, as has been said, was a sweet creature, Not very dashing, but extremely winning, With the most regulated charms of feature, Which painters cannot catch like faces sinning Against proportion—the wild strokes of nature Which they hit off at once in the beginning, Full of expression, right or wrong, that strike, And pleasing or unpleasing, still are like.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

If systematic reflection upon the morality of Common Sense thus exhibits the Utilitarian principle as that to which Common Sense naturally appeals for that further development of its system which this same reflection shows to be necessary, the proof of Utilitarianism seems as complete as it can be made.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“The good Lord have pity on us!” said Aunt Chloe.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The villain also possessed other utensils, such as a ladder, a mortar, a hand-mill--for every one then was obliged to grind his own corn; a mallet, some nails, some gimlets, fishing lines, hooks, and baskets, &c. Fig.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

" I resumed,— "The Republican Representatives refer the People and the Army to Article 68 and to Article 110, which runs thus—'The Constituent Assembly confides the existing Constitution and the Laws which it consecrates to the keeping and the patriotism of all Frenchmen.' "The People henceforward and for ever in possession of universal suffrages and who need no Prince for its restitution, will know how to chastise the rebel.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

And now he poured out upon Stepan Arkadyevitch his poetic joy in the spring, and his failures and plans for the land, and his thoughts and criticisms on the books he had been reading, and the idea of his own book, the basis of which really was, though he was unaware of it himself, a criticism of all the old books on agriculture.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A Korean-language leaflet maximizes the threat to enemy ground personnel of U. S. air operations.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Having saluted us all round, he perceived our uncomfortable situation, and conducting us into another apartment, which had fire in the chimney, called for chocolate—Then, withdrawing, he returned with a compliment from his wife, and, in the mean time, presented his son Harry, a shambling, blear-eyed boy, in the habit of a hussar; very rude, forward, and impertinent.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

; policy of United States as to same, XII.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But above all--above all, we must pull ourselves up short and begin over again if any [pg 125] tendency to stammer, to hesitate, or to become confused, begins to manifest itself.
— from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke

Calling to mind the robbery practised on us shortly after we left the depot, my mind became uneasy as to Robert Harris's safety, since I thought it probable, from the sulky disposition of the natives who had visited us there, that he might have been attacked.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

When they are to be prepared in this way, select potatoes of uniform size and either remove their skins or cook them with the skins on.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Pr o uisánti, such as speake at randon or sing extempore.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

When I now think of our egregious folly, the chief subject of astonishment seems to be, that we should have ever ventured, under any circumstances, so completely into the power of unknown savages as to permit them to march both before and behind us in our progress through this ravine.
— from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. by Edgar Allan Poe

Consequently they all take the form that, for such and such a purpose, or under such and such circumstances these superhuman powers are not to be brought into action.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, of untold splendor and boundless exuberance of growth, twine and interlace, and hang from the heights of the highest trees pennons of gold and purple,—triumphant banners, which attest the solitary majesty of nature.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe