Let him go on copying whatever good models he can meet with, and never suffer himself to neglect the proportion, and never to think of finishing his work or imitating the fine flow
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

And the only thing now thou canst do is to seek friendship and protection there where it is most readily to be found, and which all men in this northern world think it most honourable to be favoured with.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

no ricaras had accompanied them but were all at home, they also informed us that no trader had arived at the Ricaras this Season, and that they were informed that the Pania or Ricara Chief who went to the United States last Spring was a year, died on his return at Smoe place near the Sieoux river &c. those men had nether powder nor lead we gave them a horn of powder and Some balls and after a delay of an hour we parted from the 2 men Reevey & Grienway and proceeded on.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“Should I fling myself away upon the man who would the soonest feel (if people do feel such things) that I took nothing to him?
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

H2 anchor CHAPTER 30 Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

When placed before their nouns they are emphatic, as fīlia mea , my daughter ; mea fīlia , my daughter ; casa Galbae , Galba’s cottage ; Galbae casa , Galba’s cottage .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“Show me the North Tower!” said Defarge.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

No man therefore can conceive any thing, but he must conceive it in some place; and indued with some determinate magnitude; and which may be divided into parts; nor that any thing is all in this place, and all in another place at the same time; nor that two, or more things can be in one, and the same place at once: for none of these things ever have, or can be incident to Sense; but are absurd speeches, taken upon credit (without any signification at all,) from deceived Philosophers, and deceived, or deceiving Schoolemen.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The gulf extends from Cape Chukchi on the north to Cape Navarin on the south, forming part of the Bering Sea.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

I have sent up all the necessary tools; so you need not lower the cord again to-night.
— from Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

“Have any strangers been in the house?” “Not a soul, Mr. Ralston, except the man you sent wi the note to let him ha’e your spurs that were in the bureau drawer.”
— from The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson

He had half a mind to fly into a passion and pack Philip off by the next train, he had done that before with his assistants; but he had an uneasy feeling that Philip then would simply laugh at him outright; and suddenly he felt amused.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

A deal of hand-shaking and clinging to the stirrups was going on as we filed out of the barrack-gate to the tune of “The girl I left behind me;” and many a tear was shed by those who, having made a short acquaintance with some of the men while they had been quartered here, were destined never to see them again; indeed, I recollect that four of the number that marched with me on that morning died, a few years after, of a fever that broke out in the camp at Chobham; the bones of eight were left to whiten in the death-vale, after the battle of Balaklava; and three were killed during the Indian revolt, whither they had gone, transferred, at their own request, to other regiments.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by State constitutions, and from most of the national territory by Congressional prohibition.
— from Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Abraham Lincoln

Because she, a methodical, inflexible woman, with that unbendingness which a profound moralist calls the worship rendered to pride by a feelingless soul, because she could not understand the possibility of tastes and habits different to those of ordinary routine, or of her own starched life. Not to be hungry when she was; not to sleep at night, but to write while she was sleeping, and to sleep when she was up; in short, to gratify the requirements of material and intellectual life at hours different to hers,—all that was not merely annoying for her, but it must be madness; or, if not, it betokened depravity that she could neither submit to nor tolerate without perilling her own morality.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He did not seem to notice them at first, but from his seat on a log leaned over the fire warming his hands, which Ned saw were large, white and smooth.
— from The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Or, instead of a total abolition, you can have one in detail; sever a sensory nerve with the bistoury, and all the sensations which that nerve transmits to the brain are suppressed.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet