at our encampment imedeately opposit to us; we gave him at that time a Small Medal, and promised him a large one on our return.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

They are so much affected, that with the very strength of imagination, fear, and the devil's craft, [2349] they pull those misfortunes they suspect, upon their own heads, and that which they fear, shall come upon them, as Solomon fortelleth, Prov.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When a courtesan is kind to any such man as des [162] cribed above, but who in addition are favourites of the King, and moreover cruel and powerful, without any good result in the end, and with a chance of her being turned away at any moment, this loss is called a loss of wealth attended by other losses.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Strickland reached Tahiti about six months after he left Marseilles.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

At Rome they gave credit to accounts still more alarming than these, that the camp at Veii was now attacked, that a part of the enemy was now advancing to the city prepared for an attack: they crowded to the walls, and supplications of the matrons, which the public panic had called forth from their houses, were offered up in the [Pg 346] temples; and the gods were petitioned by prayers, that they would repel destruction from the houses and temples of the city and from the walls of Rome, and that they would avert that terror to Veii, if the sacred rites had been duly renewed, if the prodigies had been expiated.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

‘It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Better still do those communities, in which none but virgins marry, and where to a single marriage all their views and inclinations are at once confined.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

Which may be thus translated:— “A surviving mother, alas!
— from History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

On the Thursday following, we set out from here and came to anchor in a dangerous cove on the northern shore, where there are some meadows and a little river, [151] and where the savages sometimes erect their cabins.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Samuel de Champlain

A certain amount of minor inconvenience in connection with telephones, correspondence, visits, and so on, arose owing to General Heath-Caldwell taking up the appointment of Director of Military Training about six months after mobilization.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

"You were going to add something, Mr. Andrews; what was it?"
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train

Some of the graces He bestows are liable to suspicion because they are so marvellous, and given to one who has deserved them so little--incredible, too, without a most lively faith.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

There are sensitive men and women who would go insane after spending an innocent night in a cell.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various

He recalled how ludicrous the great bulls had appeared in their mad scramble for safety that day when Numa had charged among them and seized Mamka, and yet he knew them to be fierce and courageous.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Will you two take the boat there and set me across to the mainland?"
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler