those who remained offered us every thing they had, which was but little; they offered us collars of elks tusks which their children woar Salmon beries &c. we eat some of their fish and buries but returned them the other articles they had offered with a present of some small articles which seemed to add much to their pacification.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

August 15th One thousand six hundred thirty nine because there be so many casualties to which our life is subject besides quarrelling and contention which happen to our Successors after our Death by reason of unsettled Estates I Robert Burton Student of Christ-church Oxon.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But his self-complacency seduced him into attempting a flight into regions of unexplored English, and the reckless experiment was his ruin.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

So saying, she sprang forward at the doctor, who with incredible agility, jumped over the table, and ran behind Bragwell, while the rest of us endeavoured to appease the furious heroine.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

iii. passim): where, however, the argument is not easy to follow, from a confusion between three different objects of inquiry: (1) the actual effect of sympathy in inducing conformity to the rules of Utilitarian ethics, (2) the effect in this direction which it is likely to have in the future, (3) the value of sympathetic pleasures and pains as estimated by an enlightened Egoist.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I love man as my fellow; but his sceptre real or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

So far as white men are concerned, this fact is to-day being recognized in the South, and a happy renaissance of university education seems imminent.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

When he asked them by means of interpreters what was the meaning of their action, they replied as follows: “O king Alexander, every man possesses as much of the earth as this upon which we have stepped; but thou being only a man like the rest of us, except in being meddlesome and arrogant, art come over so great a part of the earth from thy own 371 land, giving trouble both to thyself and others.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

When you have received your new program, return to read other users' experiences and to pick up practical advice.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

“She’s passing to the right of us,” Erik judged.
— from Hour of Enchantment A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Whether or not the rest of us effected our acquittal, for those two a long term in prison was the least that they could expect, and the alternative caused even Gleazen's nonchalance to fail him.
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes

Not but what in the threefold rhythm of universal existence there are affinities with the three potencies of Schelling; but——" "Take a glass of wine." said Harrington to his young acquaintance, "take a glass of wine, as the Antiquary said to Sir Arthur Wardour, when he was trying to cough up the barbarous names of his Pictish ancestors, 'and wash down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon which would choke a dog.'"
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

To a man whom I surmised was the Kadi, I said, “If the letter is a ‘firman,’ then it should be written in Arabic, as the Soudanese did not read or understand English.”
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld

Upper Canada and the United States bear ample testimony of the flood-tide of prosperity—the result of unrestricted enterprise, and of equitable laws.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

City gardeners cannot readily obtain urine earth.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

Nothing worthy of record occurred until evening; at least nothing which at the time impressed me as of import, though I afterward remembered that Darrow’s behaviour was somewhat strange.
— from The Darrow Enigma by Melvin L. (Melvin Linwood) Severy

This extensive building was intended to be equal to the great original foundations of priestly learning at Heliopolis and Memphis; they were regulated on the same pattern, and with the object of raising the royal residence of Upper Egypt, namely, Thebes, above the capitals of Lower Egypt, in regard to philosophical distinction.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution