[Clark, December 10, 1805] Tuesday 10th December 1805 a Cloudy rainey morning verry early I rose and walked on the Shore of the Sea coast and picked up Several Curious Shells.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[xi] LIST OF PICTURES SAINT URSULA, She slept calmly and peacefully until she dreamed a dream, Frontispiece AT PAGE Ursula stood on the landing-place, the first to greet the Prince, 8
— from In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children by Amy Steedman

Her little dog lay guarding her, and she slept calmly and peacefully until she dreamed a dream which seemed almost like a vision.
— from In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children by Amy Steedman

Meanwhile the old man's effects were scrupulously collected and put under seal.
— from Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan by John Lang

"The order merely implies your safe custody; and, probably, unless some private commands are given farther, you will have what is called the great liberties of the Bastille: but still that would not, by any means, justify me in permitting you to go to your own house."
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Within its clefts and crannies there grew ferns, and to the north-east, sheltered under ledges from the hot sun, cattle and ponies usually stood or reclined upon such a summer day as this, and waited for the oncoming cool of evening before returning to pasture.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

True there were Cossacks at many a street corner and patrols upon some of the broader thoroughfares—but of Revolutionaries not a trace.
— from Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar by Max Pemberton

A little farther along the path he saw Charley and Paul, unsteady shadows ahead of him in the moonlight, and Charley had his arm under Paul's, helping him home.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

On the plain of Iñaquito and in the valley of Esmeraldas are vast erratic blocks of trachyte, some containing twenty-five cubic yards, having sharp angles, and in some cases a polished, unstriated surface.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

The courts must be enabled to uphold woman's right of marriage and motherhood, instead of, as in some cases at present, upholding school boards in their denial of this right.
— from Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. (Roswell Hill) Johnson