in the woody country their food is huckle berry bushes, fern, and an evergreen shrub which resembles the lore) in some measure; the last constitutes the greater part of their food and grows abundantly through all the timbered country, particularly the hillsides and more broken parts of it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Consequently, their gentle features, their sensitive expressions equal to those of the loveliest women, their soft, limpid eyes, their charming poses, led the ancients to glorify them by metamorphosing the males into sea gods and the females into mermaids.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The eyes of the Sagamore moved warily from islet to islet, and copse to copse, as the canoe proceeded; and, when a clearer sheet of water permitted, his keen vision was bent along the bald rocks and impending forests that frowned upon the narrow strait.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Either the cosmic power must cover the actual goodness and badness in nature impartially, when to worship it would be idolatrous, or it must cover only the better side of nature, those aspects of it which support and resemble human virtue.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And the count pressed her hand in reply, as he had done eleven years before on the staircase leading to Morrel’s study.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

His soul by crash of music fired, His tea with rum no more desired, The Paris of those country parts To Olga Petoushkova darts: To Tania Lenski; Kharlikova, A marriageable maid matured, The poet from Tamboff secured, Bouyanoff whisked off Poustiakova.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Mrs Grave-airs objected to hearing these letters; but being put to the vote, it was carried against her by all the rest in the coach; parson Adams contending for it with the utmost vehemence.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Three captive princes were hanged at Ratisbon, the multitude of prisoners was slain or mutilated, and the fugitives, who presumed to appear in the face of their country, were condemned to everlasting poverty and disgrace.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Often in children, and when the bone is diseased in adults, the cortical plate of bone can be removed with the hand chisel, and we come at once upon the pus cavity, or diplœ, or cholesteatomatous epidermic masses, or a sequestrum of dead bone, or bleeding granulation tissue, or whatever the case may present.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1886 by Various

After these things were done, the cardinals preached the crusade in various parts of the country and persuaded many to leave father and mother, wife and children, and lands, for the name of Christ and to take the cross and follow him across the sea.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

The Christian prays only under divine warrant, and this does not convey any such suggestion.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

But as red-hot iron, when a drop of cold water falls on it, merely hisses and turns the water into steam, so the burning soul of a man under the influence of its first contact with the cold palm of reality, hisses, it is true, from pain, but soon warms reality itself with its own heat.
— from Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

He spent a restless evening at the club, playing cards and losing; sat up late in his chambers over a case; had a hard morning's work, and only now that he was nearing Gyp, realized how utterly he had lost the straightforward simplicity of things.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Which Tyre is a very ancient Citie, the Metropolis of all Phoenicia, and hath bene accompted the chiefest Prouince of Syria, both for fruitful commodities and multitude of inhabitants.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

They climbed poles to the wires and called the man to a town, then they waited on that road and shot him before he reached the town.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

The toy called the "telegraph ticker" is made on this principle, the blister being made on a strip of steel, and the click produced by pressure upon its top, the elasticity of the metal bringing it back to its original position of rest, and each motion accompanied by a snap as the blister changes sides.
— from Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

[72] CHAPTER VI BLEACH TREATMENT The treatment of water with bleach alone has been largely supplanted by the liquid chlorine process but the following details will be of use on meeting conditions for which liquid chlorine cannot be used and also for the preparation of the hypochlorite solution required in the chloramine process.
— from Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race