shore on which I walked was very broken, and the hills in many places had the appearance of having sliped down in masses of several acres of land in surface.—we saw many gees feeding on the tender grass in the praries and several of their nests in the trees; we have not in a single instance found the nest of this bird on or near the ground.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[ 372 ] All this is, of course, the origin of the common superstition of the nightmare.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

At length I took my departure, leaving behind me, notwithstanding my embarrassment, no other debts than the two sums I had borrowed, and of which I have just spoken; and an account of fifty crowns with a shopkeeper, of the name of Morandi, which Carrio promised to pay, and which I have never reimbursed him, although we have frequently met since that time; but with respect to the two sums of money, I returned them very exactly the moment I had it in my power.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly expressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

She had recovered, however, in spite of the cold, which was growing more and more intense, and in spite of the numberless privations that awaited her, she persisted in accompanying her husband.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Put the needle into the 2nd chain stitch, draw a loop through and so on, until you have taken up all the chain stitches on the needle.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Thus Hegel reaches the conclusion that Absolute Reality forms one single harmonious system, not in space or time, not in any degree evil, wholly rational, and wholly spiritual.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Up again betimes to attend the examination of Mr. Gawden’s, accounts, where we all met, but I did little but fit myself for the drawing my great letter to the Duke of York of the state of the Navy for want of money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbours came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

When the lung, which is the dispenser of the air to the body, is obstructed by rheums and its passages are not free, some of them not acting, while through others too much air enters, then the parts which are unrefreshed by air corrode, while in other parts the excess of air forcing its way through the veins distorts them and decomposing the body is enclosed in the midst of it and occupies the midriff; thus numberless painful diseases are produced, accompanied by copious sweats.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In the summer of the next year, 1186, news came, in the words of a contemporary, "that a certain Irishman had cut off the head of Hugh of Lacy."
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

Universal law of relation—an expression of the truth that uniformities of connexion obtain among modes of Being, irrespective of any specification of the natures of the uniformities of connexion.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

And the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch wrote (1878) that:— “Some of the new drains (being so badly laid) are more dangerous than the old.”
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

He hesitated so strangely over this name, Dubois, that Maurice felt his face crimson to the roots of his hair.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

Meredith, Whistler, and Swinburne were born in the Spring of the nineteenth century, in 1828, 1834, and 1837 respectively, and the bloom of their days was with the giants, now legends, of the Victorian reign.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

But he heard their scraps of talk, noting that the one topic of conversation here in Dry Town was the work of the "stick-up party" manifesting itself in such episodes as the robbery and murder of Bill Varney, stage driver, the theft of Kemble's cattle, the "cleanin'" of Jed Macintosh and, finally, the affair of last night at Poke Drury's.
— from Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

The miserable state of the navy required 4 a constant vigilance to repel the chance of invasion, and to drive away pirates by whom the narrow seas were infested.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The remaining gates are Alexandra Gate and Prince of Wales's Gate, erected since 1851; Victoria Gate, Grosvenor Gate, made in 1724 by subscription of the neighbouring inhabitants; and Stanhope Gate, opened about 1760.
— from Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

And upon some of the novices, whose minds were still wavering between the Church and the world, it was thought that her example might have a dangerous influence.
— from Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen