well, more timber than Common on the banks on this part of the river—passed a large Pond on the S. S.—I walked out on the Hills & observed Great numbers of Buffalow feedeing on both Sides of the river I counted 52 Gangues of Buffalow & 3 of Elk at one view, all the runs which come from the high hills which is Generally about one or 2 miles from the water is brackish and near the Hills (the Salts are) and the Sides of the Hills & edges of the Streems, the mineral salts appear I saw Som remarkable round hills forming a Cone at top one about 90 foot one 60 & Several others Smaller, the Indian Chief Say that the Callemet bird live in the holes of those hills, the holes form by the water washing thro
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

,” said old Jolyon, “I haven't got as far as that; and I'm not likely to, I can see that very well if I'm met in this manner!”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

while the smoky lamps still lighted the identical Chinese stands and those of the old women who sold candy and fruit.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Also I thought I could see her eyes flash through the gauze that hid them.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

For I am sure by mine own feeling that the least of them loved Him so far above himself that it passeth all that I can say.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

There is certainly some mistake in the matter.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So that I was not taken with this at all, neither understanding the first, nor by practice reconciled to the latter, so that their motions, and risings and fallings, though it may be pleasing to an Italian, or one that understands the tongue, yet to me it did not, but do from my heart believe that I could set words in English, and make musique of them more agreeable to any Englishman’s eare (the most judicious) than any Italian musique set for the voice, and performed before the same man, unless he be acquainted with the Italian accent of speech.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

66 A deed thus inhuman cannot surely be expiated by the taste and liberality with which he released a Grecian matron and her two daughters, on receiving a Latin doe From ode from Philelphus, who had chosen a wife in that noble family.
— 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

Their manners are, indeed, so rude that I cannot speak of them without distaste.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We cannot discover the wisdom of the law which provides that a banking company shall buy an amount of government bonds equal to its capital stock, paying government therefor, and after depositing it with the proper government officials, receive interest on it.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

"That is charming," she says out loud: "it is so long since we have had any one here with a talent for music.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

Then in comes Sir Richard Ford, and says he hears that there is nobody more presses to reconcile the King and Chancellor than the Duke of Albemarle and Duke of Buckingham: the latter of which is very strange, not only that he who was so lately his enemy should do it, but that this man, that but the other day was in danger of losing his own head, should so soon come to be a mediator for others: it shows a wise Government.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667 by Samuel Pepys

Boucher, governor of Three Rivers, wrote thus: "We have a bishop whose zeal and virtue are beyond anything that I can say."
— from The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond

"Now that I can see you fairly, Tom," the miner said, when they halted once for the horses to come up to them, "I can make out that you are a good deal like your father as I can first remember him."
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The king made light of it; but I know his manner so well that I could see he would rather that I had asked for a dukedom for you.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"No se pasa!" screamed the three in chorus, spreading out in skirmish line like an army ready to oppose to the death the invasion of a hostile force.
— from Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

This was well received by the general public, though some of the Blue-Stockings objected to its colloquial style.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

"Well, then, madame," responded Lucien, "all that I can say is, that from my heart I pity you."
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I remember him saying that as though I could still hear him.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells