Visited the grave of Eliza W. Farnham.... Went over to New Jersey to confer with Lucy Stone and Antoinette Blackwell.... Called at Dr. Cheever's, and also had an interview with Robert Dale Owen.... Went to Worcester to see Abby Kelly Foster and from there to Boston....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

; ... / They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times.
— 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.

"Wasn't he up to your place one Sunday lately, with his funeral blacks on, and a boiled collar?" "No, he wasn't.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Those people recived us with great kindness, and examined us with much attention, their employments custom Dress and appearance Similar to those above; Speak the Same language, here we Saw two Scarlet and a blue cloth blanket, also a Salors Jacket the Dress of the men of this tribe only a Short robe of Deer or Goat Skins, and that of the womn is a Short piece of Dressed Skin which fall from the neck So as to Cover the front of the body as low as the waste, a Short robe, which is of one Deer or antilope Skin, and a Hap, around their waste and Drawn tite between their legs as before described, their orniments are but fiew, and worn as those above.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“And now come in and see my study—we shall have just time before dinner; and afterwards, before calling over, we'll do the close.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Primo uomo, un musico, Cicognani, a fine voice, and a beautiful cantabile.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It was Dairyman Crick's rule to insist on breaking down these partialities and aversions by constant interchange, since otherwise, in the event of a milkman or maid going away from the dairy, he was placed in a difficulty.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Hence probably arose the general and absurd beliefs concerning the origin of teal, which some said sprung from the rotten wood of old ships, others from the fruits of a tree, or the gum on fir-trees, whilst others thought they came from a fresh-water shell analogous to that of the oyster and mussel.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

You should take example by Miss Amy and be contented, and be glad to think you have Master Dick back with you again."
— from Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children by G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow

We do not ask ourselves whether but how they are possible, what they imply, and what they suppose; a regressive analysis attempts by critical reflection to discern in them their principles and requisites.
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

png 147 [ v ] And hauing sayled the first seuen reuolutions of Aries , and being come to the second mount, there they meet with innumerable troopes of yong women of diuerse conditions, which demaund of euerie one the sight of theyr honye, which beeing shewed vnto them, they straightwayes knowe the propertie of the hony, and the goodnesse thereof, and embracing him as theyr guest, they inuyte him with them to passe through the next seuen reuolutions, and with diuerse exercises according to her inclyned promptnes, they accompany them to the third mount.
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna

This produces an intense yellow colour with mechanical pulp and a bluish colour with sulphite and other chemical wood pulps.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

upon the retreating rebels and captured five regimental battle-flags and over forty prisoners, and a brigade commander speaking of the ground at and in front of the abandoned works, says: “Twenty battle-flags were captured in a space of 100 yards square.”
— from Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay by W. R. (William R.) Bond

He jumped out of bed, pulled on his clothing, and rushed out into the hall, only to find it alive with people, and at their head Sir Henry, with a dressing-gown thrown on over his pyjamas and a bedroom candle in his shaking hand.
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew

An article by Colonel G. A. Pierce, printed April 21, 1881, in the Chicago "Inter-Ocean," describes an interview held in that month with W.G. Green, of Menard County, in which this matter is referred to.
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

But the angle A B C is measured by half the arc A C ; And the angle B C D is measured by half the arc B D : Then, because the angles are equal, the half arcs which measure them must be equal, and the whole arcs themselves must be equal.
— from Marks' first lessons in geometry In two parts. Objectively presented, and designed for the use of primary classes in grammar schools, academies, etc. by Bernhard Marks