To please him I tried not to be unhappy, and to make myself as pretty as possible for the celebration of Washington's birthday, which took place very soon after I received the sad news.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The details of such a systematic phobia take their real motivation from concealed determinants which must have nothing to do with the inhibition in gait; it is for this reason that the form of such a phobia varies so and is so contradictory in different people.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at him and Hélène.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Indians assisted us over the portage with our heavy articles on their horses, the waters is divided into Several narrow chanels which pass through a hard black rock forming Islands of rocks at this Stage of the water, on those Islands of rocks as well as at and about their Lodges I observe great numbers of Stacks of pounded Salmon neetly preserved in the following manner, i e after Suffiently Dried it is pounded between two Stones fine, and put into a speces of basket neetly made of grass and rushes of better than two feet long and one foot Diamiter, which basket is lined with the Skin of Salmon Stretched and dried for the purpose, in theis it is pressed down as hard as is possible, when full they Secure the open part with the fish Skins across which they fasten tho the loops of the basket that part very Securely, and then on a Dry Situation they Set those baskets the Corded part up, their common Custom is to Set 7 as close as they can Stand and 5 on the top of them, and secure them with mats which is raped around them and made fast with cords and Covered also with mats, those 12 baskets of from 90 to 100 w. each form a Stack.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Sakitsakit sa pánit, Various skin ailments.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His duty was merely to stay in camp, catch fish, and prepare venison steaks and coffee at a few minutes' notice.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

Concepts indeed are such, that we can easily form some of them a priori , viz., such as contain nothing but the thought of an object in general; and we need not find ourselves in an immediate relation to the object.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Its chimnies were stout, and walls thick, its roof pitched very steep and clipped off short at the eaves; a garden of lilac-bushes and shrubs, some of which pressed their dark green against its spotless white-wash, surrounding it in front and on one side, while on the other lay the barn-yard, with a large wooden cross in its centre, protected by a railing.
— from The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

The titles of Palatine, Vaivode, Starost and the like belong to civil and military offices.]), have even drawn a few delighted drops from the eyes of your thoughtless son.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

The further development of the free larvae takes place very slowly, and extends over several months.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

It is inevitable in a commercial and industrial community that money should have a controlling power, as it is regrettable that the enjoyment of its power very slowly admits a sense of its responsibility.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

As I have, in a preceding volume, spoken at some length concerning the morals and manners of ancient races, and shown how, as a rule, their conduct has been the same as that of modern Christians, and as, moreover, the subject has been treated of in an essay by Lecky ( History of European Morals ), I will not pursue this part of my subject further than to remark, that we have scarcely two articles of faith—if, indeed we have more than one—i.e., respect for one day in seven—which we have not received, directly or indirectly, from Pagans.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

The past vanished slowly as a retreating landscape.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

To these columns there is entablament, and above that a gallery with acroteria, where are placed very spacious and ornamental vases all round the cupola.
— from London in 1731 by Gonzales, Manoel, Don

The day passed very slowly; and, after a short time, not a Zulu was to be seen.
— from The White Chief of the Caffres by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson