And on the bodies of the strong-y-winged, Thus then the new Earth first of all put forth Grasses and shrubs, and afterward begat
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Refreshed by sleep, and comforted by grateful recollections of her kindly welcome, she lay tranquilly enjoying the friendly atmosphere about her, with so strong a feeling that a skilful hand had taken the rudder, that she felt very little anxiety or curiosity about the haven which was to receive her boat after this narrow escape from shipwreck
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

The bottoms on the South Side as high as the Tarcouche tesse is from 1 to 2 miles wide, back of the bottoms rises to hilly countrey, the Plain is low on the North & Easte for a great distance no wood to be Seen in any direction.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

from this point I can See into a Deep bend in the coast to the N. E. for 10 miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We cannot abolish the new economic freedom of women.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Here, upon an exalted throne, Forseti, the lawgiver, sat day after day, settling the differences of gods and men, patiently listening to both sides of every question, and finally pronouncing sentences so equitable that none ever found fault with his decrees.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

“Is there no escape for him?” asked number two.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

SIGNATURE ON THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE NOVEL “EL FILIBUSTERISMO” EDITED BY AUSTIN CRAIG, RIZAL RESEARCH-PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES National Book Company MANILA 1918
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

Common throughout New England from the sea to an altitude of 3000 feet on Katahdin.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

In the stockade, containing the 11,000 men, there was a partial show of tents, not enough for 2000.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

When this you have done, when at last you reach the shore, 'tis not enough for you to have abandoned her.
— from Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes by Ovid

Bobby's babyhood — Insatiable appetite — Variety of noises made by Bobby — His tameness — Narrow escape from drowning — A warlike head-gear — Bobby the worse for drink — His love of mischief — He disarms his master — Meerkat persecuted by Bobby — Bobby takes to dishonest ways — He becomes a prisoner — His clever tricks — Death of Bobby 170 CHAPTER X. OUR SERVANTS.
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.

For example, in treating cynanche tonsillaris , (quinsy), if treating with the positive pole in the mouth, we would not wish to run the current further than to the back of the neck; or, if treating externally, we would not wish to carry the negative electrode further from the positive than from side to side.
— from A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

When he and my father and all the rest of them had been boys on that New England farm, they had had to clear stones off the land.
— from Aliens by William McFee

At present they probably fancy that he has gone away, and that they have therefore no excuse for attacking us.”
— from Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston

For as the first philosophers must have had some inducement to neglect everything for the search of the best state of life: surely, the inducement must have been the hope of living happily, which impelled them to devote so much care and pains to that study.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The strength of the reproductive force in the animal and vegetable kingdoms—such facts as that a single pair of salmon might, if preserved from their natural enemies for a few years, fill the ocean; that a pair of rabbits would, under the same circumstances, soon overrun a continent; that many plants scatter their seeds by the hundred fold, and some insects deposit thousands of eggs; and that everywhere through these kingdoms each species constantly tends to press, and when not limited by the number of its enemies, evidently does press, against the limits of subsistence—is constantly cited, from Malthus down to the text-books of the present day, as showing that population likewise tends to press against subsistence, and, when unrestrained by other means, its natural increase must necessarily result in such low wages and want, or, if that will not suffice, and the increase still goes on, in such actual starvation, as will keep it within the limits of subsistence.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George