he felt himself very unwell shortly after but continued his march rejoined Sharbono and Fields where the party eat of a fawn which Jo.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In utmost secrecy, a brisk Correspondence goes on with Bouille; there is also a plot, which emerges more than once, for carrying the King to Rouen: ( See Hist.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The circumstances of the Contract were of an unusually solemn and binding character; for one of the conditions of it was that Germany should agree to Armistice Terms which were to be such as would leave her helpless.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

THE EVOLUTION OF COFFEE APPARATUS Showing the development of coffee-roasting, coffee-grinding, coffee-making, and coffee-serving devices from the earliest time to the present day—The original coffee grinder, the first coffee roaster, and the first coffee pot—The original French drip pot, the De Belloy percolator—Count Rumford's improvement—How the commercial coffee roaster was developed—The evolution of filtration devices—The old Carter "pull-out" roaster—Trade customs in New York and St. Louis in the sixties and seventies—The story of the evolution of the Burns roaster—How the gas roaster was developed in France, Great Britain, and the United States A book could be written on the subject of this chapter.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then a rest followed, with the usual sneezing and bit- champing.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

During the up stroke of the piston the wing is very decidedly convex on its upper surface ( a b c d ; A , A´ ), its under surface being deeply concave and inclined obliquely upwards and forwards.
— from Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics by James Bell Pettigrew

Butterfly , ♂.—The wings on the upper side are black, crossed by numerous bands of small fulvous spots, the one crossing the middle of the median area being composed of the largest spots.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

Among other articles for which there is some market in this district, only a small portion of which now comes from the United States, are bicycles, canned fish, clocks and watches, drugs, glass and glassware, lamps, lanterns, needles and pins, petroleum, second-hand saddles, shoe polish, soap, stationery, toys, and wooden shoe pegs.
— from Supplement to Commerce Reports Daily Consular and Trade Reports: Turkey, Harput by Leslie A. Davis

Luckiest thing ever you managed to get the Big Boss to send us such a bully contrivance that seems to work jest great.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb

This, we know, is the glory of the great lawyers who have presided and do preside in the tribunals of this country; but we know, at the same time, that those opinions (which they in their own mind reject, unless supported afterwards by clear and authentic testimony) do weigh upon the rest of mankind at least: for it is impossible to separate the opinion of a great and learned man from some consideration of the person who has delivered that opinion.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

All sorts of unpleasant stories are being connected with your name--lies, all of them, no doubt; but still, there they are.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

Possibly there are now two of these deer in the United States and British Columbia for every 98 that existed forty years ago, but no more.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

she added, glancing towards the abashed Peters, with an air of scorn to which her usually serene and benignant countenance never before, perhaps, gave expression.
— from The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Campaign of 1777 by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson