McClernand told me on that day, the 6th, that he profited much by having so able a commander supporting him.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

However, my son William must have knowed the very man afore us—didn't ye, Billy, afore ye left Norcombe?" "No, 'twas Andrew," said Jacob's son Billy, a child of forty, or thereabouts, who manifested the peculiarity of possessing a cheerful soul in a gloomy body, and whose whiskers were assuming a chinchilla shade here and there.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Such is the Uncertainty of all human Greatness, that I who lately never moved without a Guard, am now pressed as a common Soldier, and am to sail with the first fair Wind against my Brother Lewis of France .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

When this thick manner of painting is adopted, an absorbent canvas should always be used.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

I attached the car, therefore, and put all my implements in it—not forgetting the condensing apparatus, a copious supply of water, and a large quantity of provisions, such as pemmican, in which much nutriment is contained in comparatively little bulk.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

intrust , committô, 3; mandô, 1 invite , vocô, 1 is , used as auxiliary, not translated; as a copula , sum ( § 494 ) island , însula, -ae, f. it , is; hie; iste; ille; or not expressed Italy , Italia, -ae, f. its , eius; huius; istîus; illîus; reflexive , suus, -a, -um ( § 116 ) itself , suî.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“I just wish I was a rich American and could spend my summer at a hotel and wear jewels and low-necked dresses and have ice cream and chicken salad every blessed day.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"The case," says Dr. Murray, "must have been settled extrajudicially or by reference; for, after a careful search in the minute book of the Court of Session, we do not find that it was ever enrolled."
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

At a certain signal all resumed their seats; but we had {314} not proceeded a mile before the whole of our trains came to a stand-still without any ostensible cause.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage

The surgeons with their hands and arms and clothes soaked with red—he saw them with the eyes of love—scene on scene in hideous review—the young officer at Cold Harbor whose leg they were cutting off without the use of chloroform, his face convulsed, his jaws locked as the knife crashed through nerve and sinew, muscle and artery.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

In places acres are crowded so closely with thrifty, brilliant bloom that one hesitates to walk through and trample the flowers.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

Although the taking of life is sternly forbidden in the ethical code of Buddha, and the most prominent of the obligations undertaken by the priesthood is directed to its preservation even in the instances of insects and animalculæ, casuistry succeeded so far as to fix the crime on the slayer, and to exonerate the individual who merely partook of the flesh.[1] Even the inmates of the wiharas and monasteries discovered devices for the saving of conscience, and curried rice was not rejected in consequence of the animal ingredients incorporated with it.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

A garden of some extent, at the rear of the cottage, was next laid out, and stocked, and last of all a commodious spring cart and clever cob were seen on the little homestead.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

I do not write as a pessimist, hardly as a critic; still less as a censor; to waste time in deriding others' theories of life is a very poor substitute for enjoying it!
— from Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson

For she divined that she must be alone with the prior to melt his mood, which grieved her; but she had not the less faith in his judgment for his hatred of royalty, and at all costs she had the grace to crave for truth in the questions she would ask of him.
— from The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

Also I never trusted her; as a child She would rush in relating lying wonders; She feigned emotions, purposes and moods; She was a little actress from the first, And all her high resolves from first to last Seemed but a robe with flowing sleeves in which Her hands could hide some theft, some secret spoil.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters