Side opposit to a rock Situated half a mile from the Shore, about 50 feet high and 20 feet Diamieter, we with dificuelty found a place Clear of the tide and Sufficiently large to lie on and the only place we could get was on round Stones on which we lay our mats rain Continud.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And it roars and thunders, and rages, sad there’s no end to it!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He was a Taoist, and received strange revelations.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

The most breath-taking display of architecture, sculpture, and painting in all India is found at Hyderabad in the ancient rock- sculptured caves of Ellora and Ajanta.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But having thus loosened all our particular perceptions, when I proceed to explain the principle of connexion, which binds them together, and makes us attribute to them a real simplicity and identity; I am sensible, that my account is very defective, and that nothing but the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings coued have induced me to receive it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands; Now give some surance that thou art Revenge- Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

So too, after rain, Sunshine and open skies thou mayst forecast, And learn by tokens sure, for then nor dimmed Appear the stars' keen edges, nor the moon As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise, Nor fleecy films to float along the sky.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest, In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay, Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day; Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain; Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

I went with them, and remained serving until the close of the Crimean war.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

“Can hardly fail to suggest to all readers several new and pregnant reflections on the subject.”— Anti-Jacobin.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

Arrowroot may be grown or bought—a big basket sells for sixpence, and it has no more to do with the arrowroot of the grocer’s shop at home, than a real seal mantle worth three figures has to do with a two guinea “electric”.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

As though turned to stone I sat in tense and rigid silence, straining my eyes into the utter darkness before me in an effort to discover if the boat were occupied.
— from Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Seemed rather silly—a Class VII civilization using techniques that were old during the Dark Ages before the Atomic Revolution, sending foot parties to explore a world in the chance that they might discover something that the search mechs missed—anything that would shorten the lag time.
— from Survival Type by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

"Those are rather splendid children," she said wistfully.
— from Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children by G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow

Do you know, sir, why I, though a relative, seldom visited them?
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Drawing back the door of the tent, they saw the flashes of musquetry and gleam of steel appear on the Santa Martha road, and wreaths of white smoke curling up among the rocks and broken ground between showing that a running skirmish had commenced.
— from The Romance of War; or, The Highlanders in Spain, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant