this shrub retains it's virdure very perfectly during the winter and is a beautifull shrub.—the natives either eat these berrys when ripe immediately from the bushes or dryed in the sun or by means of their sweating kilns; very frequently they pound them and bake then in large loaves of 10 or fifteen pounds; this bread keeps very well during one season and retains the moist jeucies of the fruit much better than by any other method of preservation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

While to me the science of government is intensely absorbing, I recognize that the most important things in life lie outside of the realm of government and that more depends upon what the individual does for himself than upon what the government does or can do for him.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

In the left-hand corner was his own name, traced in long letters of bright vermilion.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

(f) Battery and Ignition (1) Jam bits of wood into the ignition lock; loosen or exchange connections behind the switchboard; put dirt in spark plugs; damage distributor points.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

The insatiable lifelong love of wealth, as you were saying, is one cause which absorbs mankind, and prevents them from rightly practising the arts of war: Granted; and now tell me, what is the other?
— from Laws by Plato

“I do not think I look like one of that species, and you are not a judge of men of honour, let us go out, and I undertake to prove it to you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All breaks or bad marks indicated on the Line of Life are minimized on the hands that have this Inner Life Line, or Line of Mars.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

Ah!' said she, 'this is Lysander lying on the ground: is he dead or asleep?' Then, gently touching him, she said: 'Good sir, if you are alive, awake.'
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

No place is deemed worthy of it but a royal palace; and there, at the approach of the expected hour, high nobles and the great officers of state assemble, while the whole country, big with hope, waits to welcome a successor to its long line of kings.
— from The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

"Oh, nothing," she said carelessly enough, "only when anybody pulls one of those Indian Love Lyrics on me, I pass."
— from The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

All this time I lay like one stunned; my body resting, and renewing its strength, but I myself in an almost idiotic state—else surely I could not have taken the stupid interest which I remember I did in all Amante's energetic preparations for disguise.
— from The Grey Woman and other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In view of the possible dangers, he sent James Monroe to France to aid our minister there in securing New Orleans and a definite stretch of territory in Louisiana lying on the east side of the Mississippi River.
— from Stories of Later American History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Every thing in Liverpool looks old, yet nothing is worn out.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown