Clark, August 6, 1805] August 6th Tuesday 1805 a Clear morning Cool wind from the S W we proceeded on with much dificuelty and fatigue over rapids & Stones; river about 40 or 50 yards wide much divided by Islands and narrow Bayoos to a low bluff on the Stard Side & Brackfast, dureing the time of Brackfast Drewyer Came to me from Capt. Lewis and informed me that they had explored both forks for 30 or 40 miles & that the one we were assending was impractiabl much further up & turned imediately to the north, The middle fork he reported was jintle and after a Short distanc turned to the S. W. and that all the Indian roades leades up the middle fork.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

About noon we dispatched Gibson Shannon Howard and Wiser in one of the light canoes, with orders to proceed up the Columbia to a large bottom on the South side about six miles above us and to hunt untill our arrival.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

About noon we dispatched Gibson, Shannon, Howard & Wiser in one of the light Canoes, with orders to proceed up the Columbia to a large bottom on the South Side about Six Miles above us and there to hunt untill our arrival.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I was therefore conducted to a large building of two stories, quite empty, in which I found neither window, bed, table, nor chair, not so much as even a joint-stool or bundle of straw.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a delightful thing of a cool summer evening to sit round a rousing fire that casts its variable glare upon the trunks and lower branches of the stalwart trees, and gives a ruddy glow to the white tent, the dense underbrush, and the kindly faces of the honest guides.
— from Superior Fishing Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

He was very quiet,—so quiet, that a late beam of the sun, touching the rough silver white of his hair, seemed almost obtrusive, as suggesting an interruption to the moveless peace of his attitude.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

He waves his hand and calls good-by to a little boy on the steps.
— from Stories of Great Musicians by Olive Brown Horne

Having got these ready, I stopped up one half of the roadway, leaving the other half open for the traffic, and working night and day, I laid these whole timbers spanning the two arches to the adjoining piers close together, bolted them to each other, and secured them to a longitudinal bearer of the same dimensions imbedded in the masonry of the adjoining piers, so that the timbers which were to form the increased opening rested firmly upon them.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

The soldier took a long breath of the sweet air.
— from Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

This generation looks back on the earnest occupations of a preceding, as the adult looks back on the sports and toys of childhood.
— from The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington