Hooker lost a great number of men and five pieces of artillery before Kearney, Couch or Casey came up.
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

" Just then the one in the lead shot through a patch of sunlight and both Knights cried out.
— from Beatrix of Clare by John Reed Scott

But a great misfortune happened, for when Dorothy's parents arrived in China they were in a great hurry to leave the dock, where the boat landed, and Dorothy, who had fallen asleep, forgot her dolls, and left them on a bench in the waiting room, and before Kernel Cob or Jackie Tar or the Villain or Sweetclover could catch up to her, she had been lifted into her mother's arms and had disappeared in the crowd.
— from Kernel Cob And Little Miss Sweetclover by George Mitchell

Well, by an' by Keith comes out.
— from Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

6th.—I swear never to permit my political principles nor personal interest to come counter to his, if forbearance and brotherly kindness can operate to prevent it; and never to meet him if I know it, in war or in peace, under such circumstances that I may not, in justice to myself, my cross, and my country wish him unqualified success; and if perchance it should happen without my knowledge, on being informed thereof, that I will use my best endeavors to satisfy him, even to the relinquishing my arms and purpose.
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan

(Tanner 346) is a fair MS. of the 15th century, and contains, besides six of the Minor Poems, the Legend of Good Women , Hoccleve's Letter of Cupid (called litera Cupidinis dei Amoris directa subditis suis Amatoribus ), the Cuckoo and Nightingale (called the god of loue ), Lydgate's Temple of Glas and Black Knight , &c. One of them is the Ballad no. 32 discussed above (p. 40 ).
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

These appeals by Knox can only have made their way in Scotland gradually and privately.
— from John Knox by A. Taylor (Alexander Taylor) Innes

A point which differentiates the worship of Tammuz from the kindred, and better known, cult of Adonis, is the fact that we have no liturgical record of the celebration of the resurrection of the deity; it certainly took place, for the effects are referred to: "Where grass was not, there grass is eaten, Where water was not, water is drunk, Where the cattle sheds were not, cattle sheds are built.
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston