before I got out of the bottom of the revein which was a flat dry rock when I entered it, the water was up to my waste & wet my watch, I Scrcely got out before it raised 10 feet deep with a torrent which turrouble to behold, and by the time I reached the top of the hill, at least 15 feet water, I directed the party to return to the Camp at the run as fast as possible to get to our lode where Clothes Could be got to Cover the Child whose Clothes were all lost, and the woman who was but just recovering from a Severe indispostion, and was wet and Cold, I was fearfull of a relaps I caused her as also the others of the party to take a little Spirits, which my Servent had in a Canteen, which revived verry much.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When every one minds his own business the work is done.
— 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.

There is much yet to do, and what is done must stand on what merit remains after friend and foe alike are through with praise and blame.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

It is written in Dickens's usual picturesque style, and reveals his usual imaginative outlook on life and his fondness for fine sentiments and dramatic episodes.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And meseeming, for that I have never perceived that either in word or in deed hast thou departed from my pleasure, that I have of thee that solace which I desired, I purpose presently to restore thee, at one stroke, that which I took from thee at many and to requite thee with a supreme delight the pangs I have inflicted on thee.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But when they had marched ninety furlongs, while the road had been through dry [and sandy] places, and about the midst of the day, they were become very thirsty; and Mithridates appeared, and fell upon them, as they were in distress for want of water, on which account, and on account of the time of the day, they were not able to bear their weapons.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Its relation to the intention which it distorts is to be discussed later.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

For that which we have fled During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Don’t mother me,” said the jolly widow with a kindling eye; “go to your own mother, who is dying in a back cellar without a winder, while you’ve got lodgings in a two pair.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The paroles were in duplicate, by organization (one copy for each, Federals and Confederates), and signed by the commanding officers of the companies or regiments.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He learnt by the embassy, if he did not know it before that Nabonadius, the Babylonian monarch, was in difficulties, and could not resent his action.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

"That is what I discovered," said he; "the cave was empty, only in the centre of it was the carcass of an animal, snowy white,—no doubt some fox, dead of old age.
— from The Invasion of France in 1814 by Erckmann-Chatrian

Tell him that I shall show him that consideration which is due to an unfortunate general, justly celebrated, struck by that fate which may reach us all; but that I cannot recognize a sovereign prince in a general of the Prussian army.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Her soul was gently wandering in dreams.
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

This, then, is the one lesson which I wish to consider now, and there are three points which I deal with in pursuance of my task.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

But some of it was extremely interesting when it dealt with actual facts, and some of the facts were quite new to me.
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Wat is dit?"
— from Woman's Endurance by A. D. (August D.) Luckhoff

'It is Kühleborn,' he cried aloud, 'Kühleborn the water spirit, who is doing his utmost to drown us.
— from Undine by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de