the others I employed in repacking the baggage, making pack saddles &c. we took up the net this morning but caugt no fish.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

O sir, said I, and hid my face on his arm; expect not reason from a foolish creature: You should have still indulged me in my closet: I am ready to beat myself for this ungrateful return to your goodness.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

—C. C. R. has clearly shown what is Hume's authority for the passage quoted by Mr. Christian in his edition of Blackstone , and referred to by me in my former communication, Vol. iii., p. 477.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

She gave me a slap on the hand, and reached to box my ear; but Mrs. Jewkes hearkening without, and her woman too, they both came in at that instant; and Mrs. Jewkes said, pushing herself in between us; Your ladyship knows not what you do!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Why on earth should she wish me to be hers but refuse to be mine?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What shall I do, what steps take, if all this be designing—O the perplexities of these cruel doubtings!—To be sure, if he be false, as I may call it, I have gone too far, much too far!—I am ready, on the apprehension of this, to bite my forward tongue (or rather to beat my more forward heart, that dictated to that poor machine) for what I have said.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Their undisguised intimacy, and the character I now know Riderhood to bear, made that not at all adventurous.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

There was some heathenish, coffin-coloured old lumber aboard, which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the aboriginal groves of the Lackaday islands, and from these dark planks the coffin was recommended to be made.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

In short, with respect to both mind and body, they are too intimate.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Many of the clergymen likewise were dead, and others gone into the country; for it really required a steady courage and a strong faith for a man not only to venture being in town at such a time as this, but likewise to venture to come to church and perform the office of a minister to a congregation, of whom he had reason to believe many of them were actually infected with the plague, and to do this every day, or twice a day, as in some places was done.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

"I git you," replied the bearded man, his tone and manner changing abruptly from the truculent and threatening to the soothing.
— from Fibble, D.D. by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

In place of retaining his position, he hurled his force down to Branxton, his gunners could not manage their new French ordnance, and though Home with the Border spears and Huntly had a success on the right, the Borderers made no more efforts, and, on the left, the Celts fled swiftly after the fall of Lennox and Argyll.
— from A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

There are many makes of typewriters, and operators are of many minds regarding the "best" makes.
— from The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully by William Wallace Cook

But if the religion of exclusive scientificism should ever succeed in suffocating all other appetites out of a nation's mind, and imbuing a whole race with the persuasion that simplicity and consistency demand a tabula rasa to be made of every notion that does not form part of the soi-disant scientific synthesis, that nation, that race, will just as surely go to ruin, and fall a prey to their more richly constituted neighbors, as the beasts of the field, as a whole, have fallen a prey to man.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The Landgrave of Hesse, the most warlike of the Protestant leaders, caused a representation to be made to the theologians, that
— from Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2) by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent

This it is, at the same time, that renders the better measures of states abortive and impracticable."
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

You must read the book, Mr. Thostrup!”
— from O. T., A Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Which are the salient points that we have determined in regard to bourgeois marriage?
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel