Shortly after dark last evening a violent storm came on from N. W. attended with rain hail Thunder and lightning which continued the greater part of the night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

M. Foucher de Careil gives a charming picture of him:—"Quand je le vis, pour la première fois, en 1859, à la table de l'hôtel d'Angleterre, à Francfort, c'était déjà un vieillard, à l'oeil d'un bleu vif et limpide, à la lèvre mince et légèrement sarcastique, autour de laquelle errait un fin sourire, et dont le vaste front, estompé de deux touffes de cheveux blancs sur les côtés, relevait d'un cachet de noblesse et de distinction la physionomie petillante d'esprit et de malice.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

New York has always been a commercial community, and there are not more than three families in it who can claim an aristocratic origin in the real sense of the word." Mrs. Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary marriages to several members of the French and British aristocracy.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love, Walking New England, a friend, a traveler, Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands, Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town, Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts, Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls, Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor, The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her, The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them, Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie, Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland, Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me, Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State, Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother, Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones, Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now, Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

La disparition progressive de CyLibris dans certains moteurs de recherche parce que, soit nous ne voulions pas payer, soit des accords d'exclusivité avaient été signés avec des libraires en ligne et que nous étions déréférencés brutalement (passer de la première page à la cinquième page est une forme de déréférencement brutal).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But I tried my girles Mercer and Barker singly one after another, a single song, "At dead low ebb," etc., and I do clearly find that as to manner of singing the latter do much the better, the other thinking herself as I do myself above taking pains for a manner of singing, contenting ourselves with the judgment and goodness of eare.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

262 of cardboard and score all dotted lines, except NN-OO, which forms the hinge of the door.
— from Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls by Lina Beard

Shall we hesitate to wear clothing more simple, and dress less elegant, while at the price of this small privation, we shall deserve your benedictions?" The same spirit appears in a letter found among some papers belonging to a lady of Philadelphia.
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

They soon subdued Liguria, and founded the town of Aquæ Sextiæ; the Gaulish nation of the Ædues united with the strangers; a defensive league entered into by the Allobroges and the Arvernes to drive them from their shores, was defeated.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

The carriage had been announced, and Mr Harrington's well-known dislike to its being kept waiting made her feel it wrong to delay; though Amy, whose hopes of Mr Cunningham's success, and dread lest Emily should never see Rose again, overcame every other consideration, entreated her to wait, if it were only for five minutes, in the certainty that they must soon hear something from him.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

For two years she struggled amid such suffering as dying lungs entail to help her mother and younger brothers and sisters, but at last she was compelled to make her bed amid sorrow and suffering which she could no longer assuage by her helpful hands and gentle words.
— from Winter Evening Tales by Amelia E. Barr

There is a personal, I might say, a domestic loyalty expected by each of us...."
— from The Demi-gods by James Stephens