The toe rope of the white perogue, the only one indeed of hemp, and that on which we most depended, gave way today at a bad point, the perogue swung and but slightly touched a rock, yet was very near overseting; I fear her evil gennii will play so many pranks with her that she will go to the bottomm some of those days.—Capt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The toe rope of the white perogue, the only one indeed of hemp, and that on which we most depended, gave way to day at a bad point, the perogue Swong and but slightly touched a rock, yet was very near oversetting; I fear her evil Ginnie will play So many pranks with her that She will go to the bottom Some of those days.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If the conversation is general, speak loudly enough to be heard by those around you, but, at the same time, avoid raising your voice too much.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

" "Sir," said Telemachus, "as regards your question, so long as my father was here it was well with us and with the house, but the gods in their displeasure have willed it otherwise, and have hidden him away more closely than mortal man was ever yet hidden.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

And when Chichikov opened his mouth to speak the apparition repeated, “You are commanded to present yourself before the Governor-General,” and at the same moment our hero caught sight both of a second apparition outside the door and of a coach waiting beneath the window.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Whenever you have occasion to allude to them, you must, before you can do so with impunity, take pure water and scented tea and rinse your mouths.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Stir thoroughly, and renew your supply of hot water if necessary.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

But if your shield too Were not adroitly planted, some shrewd knave Reached you behind; and him foiled, straight if thong And handle of that shield were not cast loose, And you enabled to outstrip the wind, Fresh foes assailed you, either side; 'scape these, And reach your place of refuge—e'en then, odds If the gate opened unless breath enough Were left in you to make its lord a speech.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Or, stay," and again his eye roved over the grass, "there is a sergeant's guard passing towards Buckingham House--your lordship can see their conical caps over the bushes--I will summon them and relieve you of my presence, since it is so distasteful."
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

* BLOODROOT "Hast thou loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?" Beech-trees, stretching their arms, rugged, yet beautiful, Here shade meadow and brook; here the gay bobolink, High poised over his mate, pours out his melody.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We were the more surprised with this unexpected booty, because we all thought it very unusual to find pearl of so excellent a kind in such a latitude as that of 49 to 50°; but it seems there are riches yet unknown in those parts of the world, where they have never been yet expected, and I have been told, by those who pretend to give a reason for it, that if there was any land directly under the poles, either south or north, there would be found gold of a fineness more than double to any that was ever yet found in the world: and this is the reason, they say, [Pg 322] why the magnetic influence directs to the poles, that being the centre of the most pure metals, and why the needle touched with the loadstone or magnet always points to the north or south pole.
— from A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe

When you say to a realist "You must do this" or "You must not do that," he instantly asks what will happen to him if he does (or does not, as the case may be).
— from Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw

Add to these the innumerable smaller haunts of vice that line the more obscure streets-that, rampart-like, file along the hundred and one "back lanes" that surround the scattered town, and, reader, you may form some estimation of the ratio of vice and wretchedness in this population of thirty thousand, of which the enslaved form one-third.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

[Pg 174] Riseth up to take hold on us; Our gold is turned to a token, Our staff to a rod; Yet shalt thou bind them up that were broken, O Lord our God.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn