we saw but few buffaloe in the course of this day, tho a great number of Elk, deer, wolves, some bear, beaver, geese a few ducks, the party coloured covus, one Callamet Eagle, a number of bald Eagles, redheaded woodpeckers &c. we encamped this evening on N. E. side of the river 2 ms. above our encampment of the 12th of May 1805 soon after we encamp Drewyer killed a fat doe.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He ate of his meal sparingly, and with evident disgust, the only remarks which dropped from him were— “You make bad bread in the bush.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The doctor said again, with elaborate distinctness of articulation: “Avez-vous du—vin!”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But when we weren’t a celebrated singer, at whose expense did we live then?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

All haste made in setting out this Guinny fleete, but yet not such as will ever do the King’s business if we come to a warr.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He said that he had enough farthings to supply a West End draper with change for a week, and a sufficient number of threepenny pieces for the congregations of three parish churches.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She beamed fondly on him, as he substituted another with every demonstration of the tenderest care.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

"Indian" coffee, which was also grown in Arabia, was brought to Bettelfukere (Beit-el-fakih) in the mountains of southwestern Arabia, where English, Dutch, and French factors went to buy it and to transport it on camels to Moco (Mocha), whence it was shipped to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

" I base my action upon the opinion, derived from an examination of the circumstances attending the death of the claimant's husband, that his fatal disease did not have its origin in his military service and was entirely disconnected therewith.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

The parlors were freshened with green boughs and fresh herbs throughout the summer, and with evergreens during the winter.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

The gardens produce most exquisite fruit; fine flavoured grapes, cherries red as woman’s lips, pears of different kinds, apples called Sinope, figs called Bádinjíán-Injúr, which are not found so sweet any where else, different kinds of lemons, oranges of a deep purple colour, pomegranates and olives, of which alone there are seven sorts to be found nowhere else except at Damascus and Jerusalem.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

They were definitely postponing settlement, and with every day Maggie grew more restless and uneasy.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

One of the first duty acts (1710) laid a restrictive duty of 40 s. on slaves, and was eventually disallowed.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois