it consists of Cotton wood, birch, the Crimson haw, red willow, Sweet willow, Choke Cherry, yellow Current, goose berry, white berried honey suckle, rose bushes, Seven bark, Shoemate &c. &c. rushes in Some parts of the bottoms.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden, the waves in a strong gale, when she is going large, seem always to slip from beneath her—which appears very strange to a landsman—and this is what is called riding , in sea phrase.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Father Conmee read in secret Pater and Ave and crossed his breast.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Gregory of Tours, a writer of the sixteenth century, relates in several passages of his "History of the Franks," that they exhibited the same repugnance to compulsory taxation as the Germans of the time of Tacitus.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

A certain remedy is so positively and clearly indicated in her case that I shall be greatly disappointed if the most distressing of her symptoms do not immediately disappear.
— from Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman

It served that cove right, I say, playin' a trick on a pal.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

I. LONDO N: Printed for C. Rivington , in St. Paul’s Church-Yard ; and J. Osborn , in Pater-noster Row .
— from Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela by Samuel Richardson

In every Parish there is allotted for the Minister a convenient Dwelling-House and a Glebe of about two hundred and fifty Acres of Land, with a small Stock of Cattle ready in some Places, as James Town .
— from The Present State of Virginia by Hugh Jones

All this in the midst of blaring candles, reeking incense, savage pictures of Scripture story, or portraits of kings who have been benefactors to the various chapels; a din and clatter of strange people,—these weeping, bowing, kissing,—those utterly indifferent; and the priests clad in outlandish robes, snuffling and chanting incomprehensible litanies, robing, disrobing, lighting up candles or extinguishing them, advancing, retreating, bowing with all sorts of unfamiliar genuflexions.
— from Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray

Now of this delicate magic, Celtic romance is so pre-eminent a mistress, that it seems impossible to believe the power did not come into romance from the Celts.
— from Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold

When the counties elected the 152 delegates to this special state convention, their choice resulted in several pro-Union, anti-secession residents of the state.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

This was not merely owing to the [40] absence of alcohol, of which very little can remain in such preparations, but rather to the absence of the flavouring ingredients of the wine.
— from The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) Williams

But it is evident on inspection that a locking face on the line A b would cause a retrograde motion of the escape wheel, and consequent resistance, if said pallet was moved in either direction indicated by the double-headed arrow y .
— from Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous