this Gentleman informed us that we had been long Since given out by the people of the U S Generaly and almost forgotton, the President of the U. States had yet hopes of us; we received some civilities of Capt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Had this been the universal strain, had you sought to persuade us of this from our youth upwards, we should not have been on the watch to keep one another from doing wrong, but every one would have been his own watchman, because afraid, if he did wrong, of harbouring in himself the greatest of evils.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The mind sickens at the contemplation of these unvarying scenes of atrocity; but this unhappy State had yet to pass through two more lustres of aggravated sufferings (to which the author of these annals was an eye-witness) before their [469] termination, upon the alliance of Mewar with Britain.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

and after death may their ugly souls haunt you!
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

In no part of the United States has your course been more warmly approved or your great talents, persevering energy, and devoted patriotism, more universally admired.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

In this book he discovers, not with ostentatious exultation, but with calm confidence, his high opinion of his own powers, and promises to undertake something, he yet knows not what, that may be of use and honour to his country.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley by Samuel Johnson

The doctrine, however, about women, even as thus understood, scandalised his younger followers.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

Mr. John M'Clelland having gone through several branches of useful learning, kept a school for some time at Newton in Ireland, where he became instrumental in training up several hopeful young men for the university.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Enough has been said in this brief sketch to show that sculpture, if one of the latest of the arts to demand expression in the United States, has yet found a congenial soil in the New World.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin

If in the future we could hope to persuade the legislators to be content with no heavier tax than in the United States had yielded a heavy surplus over expenses of a well-conducted Patent Office, he did not fear to assert that the number of patents taken out in this country would again be trebled, and that trade and industry would be correspondingly animated and developed.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

There was a loud crackling among the underbrush several hundred yards away.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand

People of the United States ; Have you ever been invited to an enterprise of such grandeur and glory?
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

It is astonishing that after that unpleasant scene here, you could-- Bernick:
— from Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen