causes i e. fire & wind and has deprived the Greater part of the Southerley Sides of this mountain of its gren timber, 4 miles up the mountain I found a Spring and halted for the rear to come up and to let our horses rest & feed, about 2 hours the rear of the party came up much fatigued & horses more So, Several horses Sliped and roled down Steep hills which hurt them verry much The one which Carried my desk & Small trunk Turned over & roled down a mountain for 40 yards & lodged against a tree, broke the Desk the horse escaped and appeared but little hurt Some others verry much hurt, from this point I observed a range of high mountains Covered with Snow from S E. to S W with Their top bald or void of timber.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“But I don’t think I’ll ever try that again,” he concluded; smiled all round; distributed some small change, and marched without a limp out of the station.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Squeers, casting a triumphant glance at his assistant and a look of most comprehensive despotism on the boys, left the room, and shortly afterwards returned, dragging Smike by the collar—or rather by that fragment of his jacket which was nearest the place where his collar would have been, had he boasted such a decoration.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

These, for the moment, took the shape of assuming a dress somewhat more rustic and summerlike in style than the garment she had first selected, and rustling downstairs, sunshade in hand, with the disengaged air of a lady in quest of exercise.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

These conditions were refused; and Scot and Reynolds departed, swearing vengeance against him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This street giving the name to the whole ward, beginneth in West Cheap, almost by the Standard, and runneth down south
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

haud sciō an rēctē dīcāmus , Sest.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For—to Soames a rather deplorable sign—servants were devoted to Irene, who, in defiance of all safe tradition, appeared to recognise their right to a share in the weaknesses of human nature.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

I do right to show anger," replied Drake sharply.
— from Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

" The countryman here approached very diffidently, and asked if he might be allowed to take the President by the hand; after which, "Would he extend the same privilege to his wife and little boys?" Mr. Lincoln, good-naturedly, approached the latter, who had remained where they were stopped, and, reaching down, said a kind word to the bashful little fellows, who shrank close up to their mother, and did not reply.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"It's awfully cold sometimes; and real deep snow.
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

Mais, comme il s’était trompé en répétant ce qu’il avait ouï dire, il passa à travers les ronces et les haies, et arriva tout sanglant au rendezvous des sorciers.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir