the Indians are extravegantly fond of sheet iron of which they form arrow-points and manufacter into instruments for scraping and dressing their buffaloe robes—I permited the blacksmith to dispose of a part of a sheet-iron callaboos which had been nearly birnt out on our passage up the river, and for each piece about four inches square he obtained from seven to eight gallons of corn from the natives who appeared extreemly pleased with the exchange- H2 anchor [Lewis, February 7, 1805] 7th February Thursday 1805.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Firstly, a commonplace type of man, with commonplace virtues: that is to say, a non-ruling, non-authoritative, and non-self-sufficient type of man; he possesses industry, patient adaptableness to rank and file, equability and moderation in capacity and requirement; he has the instinct for people like himself, and for that which they require—for instance: the portion of independence and green meadow without which there is no rest from labour, the claim to honour and consideration (which first and foremost presupposes recognition and recognisability), the sunshine of a good name, the perpetual ratification of his value and usefulness, with which the inward DISTRUST which lies at the bottom of the heart of all dependent men and gregarious animals, has again and again to be overcome.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Hickman is in a rich tobacco region, and formerly enjoyed a great and lucrative trade in that staple, collecting it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and shipping it by boat; but Uncle Mumford says she built a railway to facilitate this commerce a little more, and he thinks it facilitated it the wrong way—took the bulk of the trade out of her hands by 'collaring it along the line without gathering it at her doors.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The death of his competitors united the electoral college, and Charles was unanimously saluted king of the Romans, and future emperor; a title which, in the same age, was prostituted to the Caesars of Germany and Greece.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Thus (to repeat a former example), a people in a state of savage independence, in which every one lives for himself, exempt, unless by fits, from any external control, is practically incapable of making any progress in civilization until it has learned to obey.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

I see towns arise along the railroads, and factories everywhere, edifices like that of Mandaloyan!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

55 The memory of Domitian was condemned by the senate; his acts were rescinded; his exiles recalled; and under the gentle administration of Nerva, while the innocent were restored to their rank and fortunes, even the most guilty either obtained pardon or escaped punishment.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A little experience and practice will inure us to it; vetula vulpes , as the proverb saith, laqueo haud capitur , an old fox is not so easily taken in a snare; an old soldier in the world methinks should not be disquieted, but ready to receive all fortunes, encounters, and with that resolute captain, come what may come, to make answer,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Note 51 ( return ) [ The history of the reformation affords frequent examples of the sudden change from superstition to contempt.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There are several varieties of the American species and they are found at present only west of the Mississippi River, although formerly they ranged as far east as Ohio.
— from Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture by Elmer Harry Kreps

Or that if the rich and fashionable ever die their bodies are mysteriously spirited away to destinations unknown; or are secretly preserved (presumably by some taxidermal process) in their homes.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

A present of money to each workman is also in order, and will [335] conduce to the rapid and faithful execution of the job in hand.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

But the Aryans grew up and formed themselves into nations, and developed the germs of their religion apart from external influence, and in a land which from the earliest times had belonged to them alone.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

"Then Mr. Max didn't put a cat into the room?" asked Frances eagerly.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

Figure the brass head of an Abbe Maury flooding forth Jesuitic eloquence in this strain; dusky d'Espremenil, Barrel Mirabeau ( probably in liquor ), and enough of others, cheering him from the Right; and, for example, with what visage a seagreen Robespierre eyes him from the Left.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[50] I should not have thought it necessary to explain that the sentence in the text is meant simply to state what were (so far as can be made out) the sentiments and notions of the ninth century, if a writer in the Tablet (reviewing a former edition) had not understood it as an expression of the author's own belief.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Furthermore, it is perhaps unnecessary to suggest the elimination of the "patent lock-fast joint"—the omission being based upon the fact that American rod-makers, knowing the efficiency [34] and safety of the plain suction ferrules with which their rods are fitted, employ no other sort.
— from Fishing with Floating Flies by Samuel G. (Samuel Granger) Camp

She was content to remain at Fairlee, exhausted in body, and depressed in mind.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady