we proceded on with a Stiff Breeze ahead (note the evaperation on this portion of the Missouri has been noticed as we assended this river, and it now appears to be greater than it was at that time.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In this respect and in not a few others, they are like the disciples of Loyola, and have properly been called the Jesuits of Buddhism.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The existence of the plant is just such a restless, [pg 399] never satisfied striving, a ceaseless tendency through ever-ascending forms, till the end, the seed, becomes a new starting-point; and this repeated ad infinitum —nowhere an end, nowhere a final satisfaction, nowhere a resting-place.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

706 Ecce velut navis praefixo concita rostro Sulcat aquas, iuvenum sudantibus acta lacertis, Sic fera dimotis inpulsu pectoris undis Tantum aberat scopulis, quantum Balearica torto 710 Funda potest plumbo medii transmittere caeli; Cum subito iuvenis pedibus tellure repulsa Arduus in nubes abiit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

"The Rector," repeated the worthy Professor; "it appears, my dear Harry, that this worthy man is the Rector, and is not above doing his own work."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

But the reflex arc is not "aware" of anything, and indeed there is nothing more to say about the process unless we should begin to analyze it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Now I have got him," said the Tailor; and coming from behind the tree, he first bound the rope around its neck, and then cutting the horn out of the tree with his axe, he arranged everything, and, leading the unicorn, brought it before the King.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Moreover, no matter how prone a modern generation may be to disregard such things, the mere fact that they may have existed as a secret racial ideal for centuries is a powerful argument for their respectable acceptance, if not active execution, by the generation that now is.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

From the materials placed in his hands he arranged the history of the regiment as it now appears.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

Mrs. Hart was most trying to her patience in this respect; and it needed all Zillah's love for her to sustain her while listening to the old nurse as she grew eloquent on her favorite theme.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

At one day’s distance from the station I was to come to Tamchok Khanbab, which forms the upper course of the Brahmapuṭra, and is the greatest of Tibetan rivers, and I needed a guide, without whom I could not think of any attempt to cross it.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

I landed in Reno during the afternoon and steered straight for the [Pg 92] Truckee River, as I needed a bath.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

As I said before, I don’t know the reasons, but I do know that running away is no answer.”
— from Peggy on the Road by Virginia Hughes

"The boat," he adds, "has ceased to run, and is now at Solovetsk laid up in dock."
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

It follows, if not directly, then a long way about, from what we have been saying, that the real artist is never at a loss for a subject.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells