This morning while Capt Clark was busily engaged in preparing for his rout, I exposed some articles to barter with the Indians for horses as I wished a few at this moment to releive the men who were going with Capt Clark from the labour of carrying their baggage and also one to keep here in order to pack the meat to camp which the hunters might kill.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He reflected, imagined expedients, such as applying to his father or selling something.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The first, which was heretofore a fortress, is now converted to a prison, and is the best, in all respects, I ever saw, at home or abroad—It stands in a high situation, extremely well ventilated; and has a spacious area within the walls, for the health and convenience of all the prisoners except those whom it is necessary to secure in close confinement.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Royalism is extinct, 'sunk,' as they say, 'in the mud of the Loire;' Republicanism dominates without and within: what, therefore, on the 15th day of March, 1794, is this?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He ceased: obedient Śuka heard; With wings and plumage of a bird He rose in eager speed and through The air upon his errand flew.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Slyunka exchanges glances with Ryabov in embarrassment, sighs, and says: “We would only go stand-shooting.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Like a certain class of modern philosophers, Dinah perfectly scorned logic and reason in every shape, and always took refuge in intuitive certainty; and here she was perfectly impregnable.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is surely wonderful that, on the cold wastes round the Arctic Ocean, there is always to be found moss for the reindeer to scrape out from under the snow, the reindeer itself either serving as food or to draw the sledge of the Ostiak or Samoyedes.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

“Will the Lady Rowena deign to cast an eye—on a captive knight—on a dishonoured soldier?” “Sir Knight,” answered Rowena, “in enterprises such as yours, the real dishonour lies not in failure, but in success.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The Spenserian stanza stands in unmistakable connexion with Spenser’s highly artistic and elaborate Epithalamium stanza (Globe Ed. 587–91) inasmuch as the last line, That all the woods may answer and their echo ring , repeated in each stanza as a burden together with the word sing which ends the preceding verse, has six measures, the rest of the stanza consisting of three- and five-foot lines.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

It was the power of "modernity," as renewed in every successive age for genial youth, protesting, defiant of all sanction in these matters, that the true "classic" must be of the present, the force and patience of present time.
— from Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater

By that act, it is enacted 'that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory of the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.'
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Here, with marvellous stupidity, people run into every snare and take a delight in alienating their natural allies.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

A good book has no way of recommending itself except slowly and as it were accidentally from hand to hand.
— from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle

It was not the fact that he had rarely if ever seen a tiger so large that most impressed the man, thus unexpectedly confronted by this unfrightened monarch of the island— the brute bore a collar about his neck, gleaming with gold and the facets of some sort of jewels !
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

The country which affords us the most ancient memorials of a perfect language, of an advanced civilization, of a philosophy in which all phases of human thought find expression, of a poetry rich in every style, and of a musical art corresponding with the lively susceptibilities of the people—India—appears to have given birth to bow instruments.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

The great variety of tint among the forest foliage heightened the effect of the landscape; and I have rarely, if ever, seen a more gorgeous locality than that through which we travelled to Orsova.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

Both use intelligently such machinery as they find necessary in their pursuits and occupations, though neither can make it or repair it except superficially, and both fumble more or less with unfamiliar mechanical appliances.
— from Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury