the corolla consists of six long oval, obtusly pointed skye blue or water coloured petals, each about 1 inch in length; the corolla is regular as to the form and size of the petals but irregular as to their position, five of them are placed near ech other pointing upward while one stands horizantally or pointing downwards, they are inserted with a short claw on the extremity of the footstalk at the base of the germ; the corolla is of course inferior; it is also shriveling, and continues untill the seeds are perfect.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, / Die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt —As soon as the money jingles in the box, the soul leaps out of purgatory.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For if we cannot be sure of the independent existence of objects, we cannot be sure of the independent existence of other people's bodies, and therefore still less of other people's minds, since we have no grounds for believing in their minds except such as are derived from observing their bodies.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And after, they chose another to be soldan, that they clept Tympieman; and he let deliver Saint Louis out of prison p. 25 for a certain ransom.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

He that does this out of uncertainty of what he should leave out, or put into his idea of CHURCH, or IDOLATRY, every time he thinks of either, and holds not steady to any one precise combination of ideas that makes it up, is said to have a confused idea of idolatry or the church: though this be still for the same reason as the former, viz.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

I gave her two louis to get some linen out of pawn, and promised to come and see her before I left Paris, to give her a hundred crowns, which would take her back to Bologna.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In 1576, when digging for clay near where Christ Church, Spitalfields, now stands, a great number of cinerary urns were found, containing burnt human remains, and in each a piece of coin, wherewith to pay Charon for ferrying the defunct [79] across the Styx; also, as Stow says, "divers vials and other old-fashioned glasses most cunningly wrought, such as I have not seen the like of, all which had water in them, differing from spring water" ( lachrymatories ), "cups and dishes of red earthenware and three or four images of white earth, about a span long, one of Pallas."
— from Bygone London by Frederick Ross

It shall be but a red flood ofer all the vorld vere noddings shall live only our peoble off the proletariat!”
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

When our repast was ended, our host, with an enlarged and comprehensive liberality, of which we had hitherto found no specimen among his countrymen, insisted upon our drinking his health in a glass of his own aguadiente; and we parted from him, his wife, and daughter, with expressions of mutual good-will, which lasted on our part as long as the smack of his hospitality still lingered on our palate.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

A New Edition of this well-known volume, which has been so long out of print, Edited by W. Crookes , Esq., F.S.A., &c. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with all the Original Illustrations, price 4 s. 6 d. Faraday's Various Forces of Nature.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

Do not wash clothing or cooking utensils under hydrants, in streams, lakes, or otherwise pollute the water in the park.
— from Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

Scarcely less out of place in the dining-hall than Kit Hatton's hounds, was the mule fairly mounted on which the Prince Pallaphilos made his appearance at the High Table after supper, when he notified to his subjects in what manner they were to disport themselves till bedtime.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Whatever Oliver Sir Lionel, or other person, might give her, she would give back to him or to her—always excepting Mrs. Leake—a Rowland that should be quite as good.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope