I employed a number of hands on the boat today and by 4 P.M. in the evening completed her except the most difficult part of the work that of making her seams secure.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

On the side of the land, they were pressed by the Almohades, the fanatic princes of Morocco, while the sea-coast was open to the enterprises of the Greeks and Franks, who, before the close of the eleventh century, had extorted a ransom of two hundred thousand pieces of gold.
— 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

The legions of the eastern frontier embraced his cause; the opulent but unarmed provinces, from the frontiers of Aethiopia 23 to the Hadriatic, cheerfully submitted to his power; and the kings beyond the Tigris and the Euphrates congratulated his election, and offered him their homage and services.
— 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

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

When her side is turned towards us, we see her as a straight line; when the end containing her eye or mouth—for with us these two organs are identical—is the part that meets our eye, then we see nothing but a highly lustrous point; but when the back is presented to our view, then—being only sub-lustrous, and, indeed, almost as dim as an inanimate object—her hinder extremity serves her as a kind of Invisible Cap.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Jerusalem he was transferred to Damascus, where he laboured for some years both as a missionary and chaplain to the English community, holding evening classes and meeting the Jews at the book depôt; the latter was once set on fire.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

"Where is the Emerald City?" he enquired; "and who is Oz?" "Why, don't you know?"
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Ozma made the loveliest Queen the Emerald City had ever known; and, although she was so young and inexperienced, she ruled her people with wisdom and Justice.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"That means he's a dead one, as much as if he faced the electric chair," he explained.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A long dinner follows, a long, complicated dinner, which no one enjoys except Papa Harfink, who studies the menu with the tenderest pleasure, and with a small pencil marks the numbers for love of which he thinks to extend considerably his elastic appetite.
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

She was not a particularly unselfish girl, but no one who heard her then ever called her egotistic afterward.
— from Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Of the first essays of the young theologian as a preacher of the Established Church, his early sufferings from that complication of diseases with which his whole life was tormented, of the still keener afflictions of a mind whose entire outlook upon life and nature was discolored and darkened by its disordered bodily medium, and of the struggles between his Puritan temperament and his reverence for Episcopal formulas, much might be profitably said, did the limits we have assigned ourselves admit.
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Somebody once told him of a little boy who, after giving a thrilling account at luncheon of how Randolph had taken Edinburgh Castle, had expressed a desire to go out and see the Museum; 'I like old things better than new,' said the child!
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

Even the ecclesiastical courts had experienced somewhat of this philosophical tendency, though undoubtedly the activity of an enlightened ruler of Würzburg or Munster was much limited by the inevitable supremacy of an ecclesiastical aristocracy, and the increasing priestly rule.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

It was then that Eleanor caught his eye, a half-scared, appraising, entreating eye—and stood still, looking down at him.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Probably both entered more into its spirit than either could have explained.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

It would be a mistake to imagine that there ever could have existed a separate poem called Patrocleia, though a part of the Iliad was designated by that name.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote