A cool morning deturmined to run the rapids, put our Indian guide in front our Small Canoe next and the other four following each other, the canoes all passed over Safe except the rear Canoe which run fast on a rock at the lower part of the Rapids, with the early assistance of the other Canoes & the Indians, who was extreamly ellert every thing was taken out and the Canoe got off without any enjorie further than the articles which it was loaded all wet.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To communicate what I have tried, and leave the rest to others for farther Enquiry, is all my Design in publishing these Papers.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Of course the cutter takes out food for 'em, but it can't take 'em out warmth and dry clothes, and snug beds, and every year there is some of the vessels lost, and perhaps all on board lost too."
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

It only remains for me now to speak of the associated public efforts which have been making of late years for the good of seamen: a far more agreeable task than that of finding fault, even where fault there is.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Any other future complement than the one fixed from eternity is impossible.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

To think of fire, for example, is to put it into a certain category of things, in such a way as to be able to say that it is this or that, or this and not that.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In each of the other four feet either a dactyl or a spondee may be used.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Of these the first and the last have been dignified with names; but the other fourteen ——first enumerated by an obscure Writer on Logic, towards the end of the Nineteenth Century——remain without a name!
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

If a crest is to be depicted between two ostrich feathers, for example, it stands to reason that the central object should be placed upon the centre of the helmet, whilst the ostrich feathers would be one on either side—that is, placed in a position slightly above the ears.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Thus we shall have in the larger square four triangles of the same size and the same number of feet as the two of fifty feet each which were formed by the diagonal line in the smaller square.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Then they themselves put on becoming little caps with yellow flowers and yellow ribbons and a sprig of orange blossom on them, and out they go arm-in-arm to parade the streets and collect a tribute of flowers from every man they meet....
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Its terms have been so ill understood and defined that both parties have assumed the defensive; and a common topic of conversation in American female society has often been the general servile war which in one form or another was going on in their different families,—a war as interminable as would be a struggle between aristocracy and common people, undefined by any bill of rights or constitution, and therefore opening fields for endless disputes.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

They were both fine-looking men, of about forty years of age, above the middle stature, one measuring six feet four inches, and the other five feet eight inches; their hair straight and black, teeth regular, and general features characteristic of the tribes on the west coast; their bodies were rather more spare, and had not on them a vestige of clothing.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

Now, of the simpler inventions and discoveries, such as that of fire for example, this is perfectly true; but it is true of these only.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

Their own families furnished enough.
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

The man he is talking with now—who is attending to the grape vines—has also a large interest in the steel works, but he has no taste or faculty for engaging in that kind of business.
— from Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Ella Merchant

The forces consist of thirty-two "men," each side having eight Pieces and eight Pawns, of a light and dark colour (known as "white" and "black"), to distinguish the opposing forces from each other.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann