The loss of one of our perogues rendered it necessary to distribute her crew and cargo among the 2 remaining perogues and 2 canoes, which being done we loaded and set out 8 A.M. we passed the village immediately above the rapids where only one house at present remains entire, the other 8 having been taken down and removed to the oposite side of the river as before mentioned.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"Ah! but," (replied the sufferer,) "it is the most pertinent reply in nature to your blows.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At worst let us suppose her endowed with an ardent disposition which will make her impatient of long delays; I maintain that her judgment, her knowledge, her taste, her refinement, and, above all, the sentiments in which she has been brought up from childhood, will outweigh the impetuosity of the senses, and enable her to offer a prolonged resistance, if not to overcome them altogether.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The priest replies, "I need the compassion of Almighty God and the holy King Olaf."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This latter then provokes and fights with another of his tribal brothers, to whom the precious relic is next transmitted, but only provisionally; thus it passes from hand to hand and circulates from group to group.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The publication of the original Italian and the English, page for page, renders it necessary to place the annotations at the end of the volume instead of in footnote as hitherto.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The occupations to which Traddles stood pledged, rendered it necessary to fix a somewhat distant one; but an appointment was made for the purpose, that suited us all, and then I took my leave.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

So long as the coarse and thin texture of mere current popular romance is not touched by a paltry culture it will never be vitally immoral.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"The buildings of the institution have been enlarged; the expense of which, added to the increased price of provisions, renders it necessary to advance the terms of admission."— Murray's Key , 8vo, p. 183.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

A particular revelation is necessary to make known to St. Peter, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

If Glasgow was poorly represented in number, the women had all the more reason to be proud of the weight of the two names,—John and Edward Caird.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

A dollar is the usual charge for a division, which is anywhere from one hundred to two hundred miles, but when a hobo attempts to go without paying, he is generally treated pretty rough, if not thrown from the train and killed.)
— from From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It Giving My Exciting Experiences as a "Hobo" by John (John R.) Peele

"You are very kind," he said, in sepulchral tones, "but the method in which Her Majesty's mails are delivered--or rather not delivered, in this place, renders it necessary that I should return at once.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Cf. Critique of Practical Reason , in note to Preface.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Especial attention is called to the statement made thereon (referring, of course, to hurricanes in the North Atlantic, but no doubt true for the entire Northern Hemisphere) that "although the 8-point rule is nearly true when the wind is anywhere from north to south by way of west (that is, generally speaking, in the navigable semicircle), it is liable to be a very poor guide when the wind is from any point in the first or second quadrant."
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various

If the trail is fresh, the column passed recently; if narrow, the troops felt secure and were marching in column of route; if broad they expected an action and were prepared to deploy.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss