it is Singular as my gun has a Steel frisen and never Snaped 7 times before in examining her found the flint loose to describe the road of this day would be a repitition of yesterday excpt the Snow which made it much wors to proseed as we had in maney places to derect our Selves by the appearence of the rubbings of the Packs against the trees which have limbs quiet low and bending downwards H2 anchor [Clark, September 17, 1805] Sunday 17th Septr.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He saw a man giving himself airs because he was clad in a lion’s skin, and said to him, “Do not go on disgracing the garb of nature.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And God be with you, sir, and my grateful heart and blessing!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She was younger, simpler, and more genuine, had a charming brow, and drank very daintily out of her wineglass.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Gasulináhi siya arun mukanta, Give him a little snort so he will sing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If it be such as manifests generally hostility against the world—an intention to rob generally, then it is piracy; but if it be merely a mutiny and murder in a vessel, for the purpose of delivering it up to the enemy, it seems to be an offence against a single nation and not to be piracy.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The "Catalogue of Ships," as Mr. Gladstone has acutely observed, is arranged in well-defined sections, in such a way that the end of each section suggests the beginning of the next one.
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Surprised at my generosity, he at first refused—but his natural wish to possess such rare gems finally prevailed, and he took them, overpowering me with thanks—while I was perfectly satisfied to see that I had secured his services so thoroughly by my jeweled bribe, that he either forgot, or else saw no necessity to ask me for personal references, which in my position would have been exceeding difficult, if not impossible, to obtain.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

While she ate, Miss Grant had an uneasy feeling that she was being stared at; all the female staff and hangers-on of the place having gathered round the door to peer in at her and to appraise to the last farthing her hat, her tailor-made gown, and her solid English walking-shoes, and to indulge in wild speculation as to who or what she could be.
— from An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

He made it a rule to address her as he would a sensible man , laying all matters before her, with the reasons for the advice he tendered, and he thought this was the most legitimate as well as judicious flattery that could be offered to her, and such as must gratify her, and the more because there was no appearance of flattery in it, and nothing but what was fit and proper.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

It allers seemed sort o'queer to me, that a man with such a mighty good heart as your'n, could be so short in the way of brains."
— from Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time by James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore

Then she stared at Marius, gave him a strange look, and said to him,— "Do you know, M. Marius, that you are a very good-looking fellow!"
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

When I returned to Ireland, and found that she had, as I supposed, made away with herself, as soon as my grief had a little subsided, I did perceive that, although her apparel remained, all her other articles of any value had disappeared; but I concluded that they had been pillaged by her relations, or other people.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat