The party returned excessively fortiegued and tired of their jaunt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

2. The opinion of Plotinus the Platonist regarding enlightenment from above.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“This account determined me to take to my heels, and, without once even looking behind me, I ran at full speed up into the hills, while the porter ran equally fast, although nearly in an opposite direction, so that, by these means, he finally made his escape with my bundles, of which I have no doubt he took excellent care—although this is a point I cannot determine, as I do not remember that I ever beheld him again.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

46 Cum igitur id, quod utile videtur in amicitia, cum eo, quod honestum est, comparatur, iaceat utilitatis species, valeat honestas; cum autem in amicitia, quae honesta non sunt, postulabuntur, religio et fides anteponatur amicitiae.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Many doctors have a tender horror of consenting to any patient rowing, even for a day, so long as he is under their care, though only for a boil which does not affect his action.
— from Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate

To carry out his principles practically, Ruskin established for a short time a tea shop in the Marylebone Road, where nothing but the best tea was sold at a fair price, and he founded the St George's Guild with a view of showing "the rational organisation of country life independent of that of cities;" or in other words, the restoration of the peasantry to the soil of England.
— from Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen by Clement King Shorter

Even when he writes to comparative strangers, he never lays himself out for a “point” or a phrase, rarely even for a joke.
— from Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

I knew that Holbrook had no home ready for his wife, and I thought it would give them a pleasant retreat enough for a few months, while the honey and rose-leaves still sweetened the wine-cup of their wedded life.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Perhaps the greatest individual mind of the Italian Renascence was Leonardo da Vinci, who was so distinguished in so many different departments of thought and art; and while he summed up and passed beyond the philosophical and scientific knowledge of his age, and experimented in nearly all directions, and was at once architect, chemist, engineer, musician, poet, his fame still rests upon his achievements in painting, which are distinguished by a peculiar refinement, extreme finish, and intellectual and poetic quality.
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

But when the sight appear'd in view, They found it was an antique show; A triumph, that, for pomp and state, Did proudest Romans emulate: For as the aldermen of Rome 595 Their foes at training overcome, And not enlarging territory, (As some mistaken write in Story,) Being mounted, in their best array, Upon a carr, and who but they!
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

The darkness and the pouring rain endured for about an hour, then both began to lighten, streaks of pale sky appeared in the east, and the trees like cones emerged from the mist and gloom.
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler