The black Mountains he Says is verry high, and Some parts of it has Snow on it in the Summer great quantities of Pine Grow on the mountains, a great noise is heard frequently on those mountains-, on the mountains great numbers of goat, and a kind of Anamale with large Circuler horns, This animale is nearly the Size of an Argalia Small Elk.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I took two men in a Small Canoe and assended the Columbia river 10 miles to an Island near the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On Sunday next, you know, My daughter Katherine is to be married; Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca Be bride to you, if you make this assurance; If not, to Signior Gremio.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was obtained by the author in nearly the same form in 1890 from James Wafford, of Indian Territory, who had heard it from his grandmother nearly eighty [ 445 ] years before.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Weather Man—I fear he Has much to do with it, for, sure, The air is not the same: It chokes you when it is impure, When pure it makes you lame.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

As seen by four kinds of spectators, the average ignorant native, the Shint[=o]ist, the learned Buddhist, and the critical historical scholar, these effigies represented three different characters or creations.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

One thing alone is needful, the salvation of one’s soul.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

As a general thing—as far as I could make out—these murderous adventures were not forays undertaken to avenge injuries, nor to settle old disputes or sudden fallings out; no, as a rule they were simply duels between strangers—duels between people who had never even been introduced to each other, and between whom existed no cause of offense whatever.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Yes, they are royal men; but their art is not the same with the art of those whom you call, and rightly, in my opinion, dialecticians:—Still we are in the dark about rhetoric.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

My opinion is that the greatest pain (I say the greatest, though it may be ten atoms less than another) is not therefore short, because acute.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Professor Laurie has answered it very effectively, however, and in his plausible explanation gives a number of points which emphasize the intense ardor of these students of the Middle Ages in their search for knowledge, and shows how ready they were to bear serious trials and inconveniences, not to say absolute sufferings and hardships, in order that they might have opportunities for the higher education.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

This magnificent work was designed for the retirement of a prince celebrated for his magnificent taste, and were it possible to rescue it from its present position, or examine the interior, many valuable relics might be brought to light, to enrich the cabinet of the antiquarian if not to subserve the use of the sciences.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

And this construction of the first member of the article is necessary to shield its two other members from a charge of surplusage, and even absurdity.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Not one was published with his name, and they amount in number to sixty-eight.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

Dost thou not know, our Lord the Abbot sent me once to Acre in Norfolk, to solitary confinement and bread-and-water, already?
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

The mean pressure of the atmosphere is not the same all over the globe.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

The attempt is not to suspend merely, but to destroy this right, and because we have experienced some inconvenience from this exercise.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress