While we were thus lying idle in camp on the big Black, the Army of the Cumberland, under General Rosecrans, was moving against Bragg at Chattanooga; and the Army of the Ohio, General Burnside, was marching toward East Tennessee.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This function can be fulfilled for all departments by the same superintending body, and by a collective and comprehensive far better than by a minute and microscopic view.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

386 That part of the island belongs to the same land as Butuan and Calaghan, and lies toward Bohol, and is bounded by Mazaua.
— 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

All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped [pg 375] drift of withered leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

There was the great king Aldrovandus, and Bosphorus, and Cappadocius, and Dardanus, and Pontus, and Asius, ——to say nothing of the iron-hearted Charles the XIIth, whom the Countess of K***** 214 herself could make nothing of.——There was Babylonicus, and Mediterraneus, and Polixenes, and Persicus, and Prusicus, not one of whom (except Cappadocius and Pontus, who were both a little suspected) ever once bowed down his breast to the goddess——
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Roman Catholics have an archbishop, a cathedral, and five or six smaller churches, French, German, Spanish, and English; and the Episcopalians, a bishop, a cathedral, and three other churches; the Methodists and Presbyterians have three or four each, and there are Congregationalists, Baptists, a Unitarian, and other societies.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Now, as I wish to vie with Mr. Allen's unrivalled polemic amiability and be as conciliatory as possible, I will not cavil at his facts or try to magnify the chasm between an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Napoleon and the average level of their respective tribes.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

I shall get the dairymaid to set them under the first spare hen, and if they come to good I can have them moved to my own house and borrow a coop; and it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to attend to them.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

you Chwib, n. a pipe, a tube Chwiban, n. a whistle Chwibaniad, n. a whistling Chwibanllyd, a. apt to whistle Chwibanogl, n. a flageolet Chwibanol, a. whistling Chwibanu, v. to whistle Chwibanydd, n. a whistler Chwibiad, n. a trilling Chwibio, v. to quaver Chwibiol, a. trilling Chwibl, a. tart, sour, acid Chwiblad, n. a souring Chwiblaidd, a. somewhat sour Chwibledd, n. sourness Chwibleian, n. a nymph Chwiblni, n. acerbity Chwibol, n. a tube, a pipe Chwibolog, a. tubular Chwibon, n. a whistler; a stork Chibwrn, n. giddiness: a. giddy, dizzy Chwid, n. a quick turn Chwido, v. to quirk, to juggle; to make a quick move Chwidog, a. full of quirks Chwifio, v. to fly around Chwifiol, a. whirling; vagrant Chwiff, n. a hiss, a whiff Chwiffiad, n. a hissing Chwiffio, v. to hiss, to whiff: a. sibilant; whiffing Chwig, n. whey fermented: a. fermented; sour Chwiglen, n. a sharp stone Chwigws, n. whey drink: a. sour, tart, sharp Chwil, n. a beetle, a chafer: a. whirling, reeling Chwilast, n. a gadder Chwilboeth, a. scorching Chwildarw, n. the dragon-fly Chwildro, n. a dizzy turn Chwildröad, n. a reeling Chwildroi, v. to turn dizzily Chwilen, n. a beetle, a chafer Chwilena, v. to pry; to pick Chwilenai, n. a pilferer Chwilfa, n. a research Chwilfriw, a. all to pieces Chwilfriwiad, n. a shattering Chwilfriwio, v. to shatter Chwilfynwg, n. the neck joint Chwilgi, n. a prying dog Chwilgorn, n. a pivot, a reeling Chwiliach, v. to pry; to pilfer Chwiliad, n. scrutiny, search Chwiliadol,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

No one could succeed in entering the garden, because an impregnable castle had been built at the entrance of the valley, and it could only be approached by a covered and secret way.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

After the well-paved streets of Rio de Janeiro, both Monte Video and Buenos Ayres cut a very poor figure; but the worst feature is the absence of sewerage, and the refuse of the town is at times very offensive to the olfactory nerves, and destroys the appellative “good airs,” which is otherwise a characteristic of the place under ordinary circumstances, or as nature intended it to be.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield

He was a man of from twenty-five to twenty-six years of age, who idled his life away: his courage was undoubted, and being as credulous as an old libertine, he was ready to draw his sword at any moment to defend the lady whose cause he had espoused, should any insolent slanderer dare to hint there was a smirch on her virtue.
— from La Constantin Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

"The negroes fought gallantly," wrote a Confederate officer, "and were headed by as brave a colonel as ever lived."
— from Memories and Studies by William James

"And then I lost myself awhile in a bazaar where I saw sundry gentlemen from the country hurriedly disposing of short, blunt rifles at a reckless discount for cash, and eventually I came out into a steep street which led down to the sea, a street full of an advancing swarm of armed men and banners and carriages and the shrill blare of trumpets pulsed by the thudding of drums.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

A few hours later there come a bump, a crash, a cry, and then all the mail bags rolled one over the other with the car down an embankment into a river.
— from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. by Louisa May Alcott

THE Workhouse for the Saddleworth Union is a low stone building of no great dimensions, standing on about as bleak and cold a site as could well I have been selected.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in hell receiving the reward of his diabolical invention, by which he made it easy for a base and cowardly arm to take the life of a gallant gentleman; and that, when he knows not how or whence, in the height of the ardour and enthusiasm that fire and animate brave hearts, there should come some random bullet, discharged perhaps by one who fled in terror at the flash when he fired off his accursed machine, which in an instant puts an end to the projects and cuts off the life of one who deserved to live for ages to come.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 13 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The priests of the churches and the {326} chantries, the chaplains of the fraternities, the singing-men, the petty canons, the sextons, singers, sayers of pater-nosters, sellers of crosses and beads and chaplets and wax tapers, the monks and the nuns with all their officers and servants—there were many thousands in this city alone—what became of them?
— from London by Walter Besant

There was a buzz, a click, and a new voice which said, "Operator ni-yun.
— from The Impossibles by Randall Garrett