I derected them to take one of the Skin Canoes and proceed down to the next bottom and untill my arival which will be this evening if Sergt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It still contained a pate de foie gras, a lark pie, a piece of smoked tongue, Crassane pears, Pont-Leveque gingerbread, fancy cakes, and a cup full of pickled gherkins and onions—Boule de Suif, like all women, being very fond of indigestible things.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the meantime, when once called into existence, the plague crept on and found abundant food in the tone of thought which prevailed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and even, though in a minor degree, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth, causing a permanent disorder of the mind, and exhibiting, in those cities to whose inhabitants it was a novelty, scenes as strange as they were detestable.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Several sailors, who were evidently accustomed to this sort of scene, carried the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin, and Passepartout did not wake until they were one hundred and fifty miles away from China.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

On the instant, the she-wolf’s coyness and playfulness disappeared.
— from White Fang by Jack London

The beautiful sterile emotions that art excites in us are hateful in its eyes, and so completely are people dominated by the tyranny of this dreadful social ideal that they are always coming shamelessly up to one at Private Views and other places that are open to the general public, and saying in a loud stentorian voice, ‘What are you doing?’
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Il devrait s'imposer comme une nouvelle solution complémentaire aux problèmes des personnes aveugles et malvoyantes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Checking herself just in time, by digging all her mighty claws into the roots of the blueberries, she crouched at the brink, thrust her head as far over as she could, and peered down with anxious cries.
— from The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

The ladies, having expressed their sympathy, singly and separately, fell, according to custom, into a little chorus of soothing expressions, among which, such condolences as ‘Poor dear!’—‘I should feel just the same, if I was her’—‘To be sure, it’s a very trying thing’—and ‘Nobody but a mother knows what a mother’s feelings is,’ were among the most prominent, and most frequently repeated.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I Period of Sectional Controversy PAGE Composition of the Population of Alabama 3 The Indians and Nullification 8 Slavery Controversy and Political Divisions 10 Emancipation Sentiment in North Alabama 10 Early Party Divisions 11 William Lowndes Yancey 13 Growth of Secession Sentiment 14 “Unionists” Successful in 1851-1852 16 Yancey-Pryor Debate, 1858 17 The Charleston Convention of 1860 18 The Election of 1860 19 Separation of the Churches, 1821-1861 21 Senator Clay’s Farewell Speech in the Senate 25 CHAPTER II Secession from the Union Secession Convention Called 27 Parties in the Convention 28 Reports on Secession 31 Debate on Secession 31 Political Theories of Members 34 Ordinance of Secession Passed 36 Confederate States
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

“That’s your sort,” cried Amos Parr; “down with you, Buzzby.”
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

This statement is not absolutely correct; it is probable that there was some catastrophe, and possibly Dr. Jennings then began to break away from the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he left entirely, when the Methodist Protestant Church was formed in 1828.
— from The History of University Education in Maryland The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891). With supplementary notes on university extension and the university of the future by Bernard C. (Bernard Christian) Steiner

Reports came in from all parts of the district that they had changed their attitude, that they no longer crouched at the sight of a Roman but bore themselves defiantly, that there were meetings at night in the forest, and that the women sang chants and performed dances which had evidently some hidden meaning.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty