found Several Indians from the village, I Smoked with them; Soon after my return two Canoes loaded with fish & Bear grass for the trade below, came down,from the village at the mouth of the Catterack River, they unloaded and turned their Canoes up Side down on the beech, & camped under a Shelveing rock below our Camp one of the men Shot a goose above this Great Shute, which was floating into the Shute when an Indian observed it, plunged into the water & Swam to the Goose and brought in on Shore, at the head of the Suck, as this Indian richly earned the goose I Suffered him to keep it which he about half picked and Spited it up with the guts in it to roste.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The temple of the god of song is equally accessible from every side, and there is room enough in it for all who bring offerings, or seek in oracle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

As soon as they became convinced that Fritz would not guide them, they released him from the string; and then, in real earnest, set about carrying out the design of Karl.
— from The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid

STEARNS, HELEN R. Standards and trends in religious education.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Bruin, however, positively declined the smallest approach to intimacy, refusing even to look at our cards, and sending out the most hopeless "Not at home."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

… Mr Kennedy has a style, and that is rare enough nowadays—as refreshing as it is rare.”
— from Books Worth Reading Being a List of the New and Forthcoming Publications of Greening & Co., Ltd, season 1901 by Greening & Co. Ltd.

What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republican eyed the monarch with a serene and easy dignity, which made the descendant of St. Louis feel ill at ease.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

Surely all this is rather extravagant, and surely it is not this art that will live when the painter is no longer at hand to explain and to decide "which way up."
— from Norway by Beatrix Jungman

The pursued man views the tree suspiciously before trusting himself to its doubtful strength, or weighs well the stone and tests its rough edges before pausing to throw it.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey