the bead is rock except at the enterence of Labiech's river which heads in Mt. Hood and like the quick Sand River brings down from thence Vast bodies of Sand the Mountains through which the river passes nearly to Cataract River are high broken rocky, particularly Covered with fir and white Cedar, and in maney places very romantic scenes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
Now begin with the principal verb REPERTI SUNT and its subject complures nostri MILITES , many of our soldiers were found .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
And it should not be neglected like this place: vigorous repairs should go on everywhere among farm-buildings and cottages, and travellers in post-chaises, coming along the Rosseter road, should do nothing but admire as they went.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot
Quidam maxime comedere nituntur, putantes ea ratione se vires refecturos; ignorantes, non ea quae ingerunt posse vires reficere, sed quae probe concoquunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Passive vehicles reflect signals from one ground station to another.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy
Round about this He placed various reliques, sculls, thigh-bones &c; I observed, that He disposed them all in the form
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Nays. —Messrs. Coles, Gerry, Grout, Hathorn, Huntington, Jackson, Leonard, Livermore, Matthews, Page, Parker, Partridge, Van Rensselaer, Sherman, Smith, of Maryland, Smith, of South Carolina, Stone, Sturgis, Sumter, Thatcher, Tucker, and White.—22.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress
It was entirely characteristic of him that he p. viii remained silent as he walked rather sulkily by my side.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow
Philip Van Reypen sat looking after them, smiling.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells
PLATE VI — Royal Standards From this date [217] until the death of Elizabeth these were the royal arms of England, but during the reign of Richard II (1377-99) the legendary arms of Edward the Confessor (or, a cross patoncé between five martlets on a field azure) were impaled with them, and Queen Mary, after her marriage with Philip of Spain, impaled the arms of Spain.
— from British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device by William Gordon Perrin
Figures on columns (flanking the half domes): Philosophy and Physical Vigor - Ralph Stackpole A colossal figure of a youth, on top of free-standing columns on the west wall of the main buildings.
— from The Art of the Exposition Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme & Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
As this Book doth show, [pg vi] Rare skill he had when he would Sketches take, And from those Sketches prittie Pictures make.
— from Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell
Once on the plain Veronique rode slowly.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
A previous verse reads: 'Suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting.'
— from Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. (Eldridge Burwell) Hatcher
Nays. —Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Burke, Giles, Hartley, Hathorn, Heister, Jackson, Mathews, Moore, Muhlenberg, Parker, Van Rensselaer, Seney, Smith (of Maryland), Steele, Stone, Tucker, and Williamson—21.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress
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