I went into the lodges of all the men of note except two, whome I heard had made Some expressions not favourable towards us, in Compareing us with the trabers from the north—Those Cheifs observed what they Sayed was in just & lafture.—just as I was about to return the 2d Chief and the Black man, also a Chief returnd from a mission on which they had been Sent to meet a large party 150 of Gross Ventres who were on their way down from their Camps 10 Miles above to revenge on the Shoe tribe an injurey which they had received by a Shoe man Steeling a Gross Venters Girl, those Chiefs gave the pipe turned the party back, after Delivering up the girl, which the Shoe Chief had taken and given to them for that purpose.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

‘I will give her,’ he said, ‘everything necessary for the completion of your musical education, and in four years, I will take you to Dresden (he was in the service of the Elector of Saxony, King of Poland), not as a girl, but as a castrato.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Her eyes rolled about with a sinister expression, now flashing up with brilliant gleams, now becoming obscured like the sky on a stormy night; it might be said that the light of reason was flickering and about to be extinguished.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

So, too, is the whole world of inward states, the so-called "soul," even now, for all non-philosophical persons, a "mystery," and during countless ages it was looked upon as a something of divine origin, in direct communion with deity.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

i will call at your Carser on Sunday Evening next for an answer, for i want a [
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

To lose the intuition as to the ground upon which she can most surely achieve victory; to neglect exercise in the use of her proper weapons; to let-herself-go before man, perhaps even "to the book," where formerly she kept herself in control and in refined, artful humility; to neutralize with her virtuous audacity man's faith in a VEILED, fundamentally different ideal in woman, something eternally, necessarily feminine; to emphatically and loquaciously dissuade man from the idea that woman must be preserved, cared for, protected, and indulged, like some delicate, strangely wild, and often pleasant domestic animal; the clumsy and indignant collection of everything of the nature of servitude and bondage which the position of woman in the hitherto existing order of society has entailed and still entails (as though slavery were a counter-argument, and not rather a condition of every higher culture, of every elevation of culture):—what does all this betoken, if not a disintegration of womanly instincts, a defeminising?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
— from My Religion by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Perhaps to gain time, Stephen assented, and the young friar, with a somewhat inquisitive look, presently brought him the sentence, “ Et non faciamus mala ut veniant bona .”
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I knew we were entering the zone of commerce and would probably sight some vessel soon, and the thought of tearing away into the night at the wild rate {227} we were going without a light made me strain every nerve for something ahead.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

She expected nothing from him, neither mercy nor quarter.
— from The Wire Tappers by Arthur Stringer

In painting the theme may count for little and yet a great picture result; in Zola's field there must be an appreciable subject, else no fiction.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

I see the lamps are lighted below, and I smell a smell which tells me that auntie has something extra nice for us to-night.”
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

"I think I shall give you a severe scolding every night for a week, and then see if you're not little paragons of perfection, every one of you."
— from Marjorie's Busy Days by Carolyn Wells

Since everyone nowadays feels burdened with evil impulses and disease germs which he has inherited, and all our predecessors have felt the same, the only thing left is to lay the blame on our first parents.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg