We accordingly steamed down the Ogeechee River to Ossabaw Sound, in hopes to meet Admiral Dahlgren, but he was not there, and we continued on by the inland channel to Warsaw Sound, where we found the Harvest Moon, and Admiral Dahlgren.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It was to no purpose for them or us, after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we could; and our master promised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping towards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The word “typee,” or, rather, “taipi,” originally signified an eater of human flesh.
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

He did not, any more than Calvin and the other Reformers, think of Servetus as he was in truth—a speculative, yet perfectly pious scholar, intent on bringing the Reformation of Christian doctrine, begun by Luther, still nearer to the simplicity of Apostolic, or even of pre-Apostolic, times; for Michael Servetus had the mind to see and to say that there was a Christian Religion, based on love of God and man, with added faith in its Author, 353 before there were any Gospels; so that these are truly but the varying and often discrepant reports of the Master’s teaching, with mythological accretions and interpolated Greek philosophoumena.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

The face, more long than oval, resembles that of some beautiful Isis in the Egyptian bas-reliefs; it has the purity of the heads of sphinxes, polished by the fire of the desert, kissed by a Coptic sun.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

328 “Man,” he says, “shows conscious reflection when his soul acts so freely that it may separate, in the ocean of sensations which rush into it through the senses, one single wave, arrest it, regard it, being conscious all the time of regarding this one single wave.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Naturally you may say that the reason the cook saw the Clown the second time, after she opened the ice-box door, was because some of the oranges rolled to one side, allowing the Clown to be seen.
— from The Story of a Calico Clown by Laura Lee Hope

Near by stands the one famous relic of the old régime, the Old Stone Chimney of Fort du Portage, later a chimney of the English mess-house at Fort Schlosser.
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

In this manner do the rich people of the world: one ear they have on earth to obtain riches, the other Sin stops up; yet they will see a day, the day of Judgment.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme