The Ice begin to run we move into our hut, visited by the Grand Chief of the Mandans, and Che chark Lagru a Chief of the Assinniboins & 7 men of that Nation, I Smoke with them and gave the Chief a Cord & a Carrot of Tobacco—this Nation rove in the Plains above this and trade with the British Companes on the Ossinniboin River, they are Divided into Several bands, the decendants of the Sioux & Speak nearly their langguage a bad disposed Set & Can raies about moo men in the 3 bands near this place, they trade with the nations of this neighbourhood for horses Corn & Snow all Day Capt. L. at the village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

we fear also that such a measure might possibly discourage those who would in such case remain, and might possibly hazzard the fate of the expedition.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When they have all disappeared COKESON spins completely round and makes a rush for the outer office.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

So far as this is the case we must use the Utilitarian method to ascertain how far persons in special circumstances require a morality more specially adapted to them than Common Sense is willing to concede: and also how far men of peculiar physical or mental constitution ought to be exempted from ordinary rules, as has sometimes been claimed for men of genius, or men of intensely emotional nature, or men gifted with more than usual prudence and self-control.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

VENTURES, ON AN OLD THEME A DIALOGUE— One party says —We arrange our lives—even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited—with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"Esté usted sin cuidado respecto a mi seguridad personal.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The odour that arose from the carcase of the bat which the detective had so carefully preserved was none too pleasant, while to a woman the sight of anything so closely resembling a mouse as does a bat is usually enough to cause an exclamation of horror.
— from The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story by A. Eric Bayly

The extent of this departure in the latter respect is evident from Figure 28 , showing the number of individual nightly station curves reaching a maximum peak in each hour interval.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

Both the first and the second class roads are maintained by the General Government as being national affairs.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

A little way off disturbance seemed centring round a man with a pink carnation; Val stole another glance at the young woman, who was looking towards it.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy