While in camp at Hanging Rock two prisoners were brought to me--one a chaplain, the other a boy, son of Richard Bacot, of Charleston, whom I had known as a cadet at West Point.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It’s a question up here in the winter-time whether you are going to be frozen to death in a bitter storm, or roasted by the fires that are under the earth.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

Her skin had faded to a duller, more ghastly tint than ever, but a bright spot of red burned in either cheek.
— from The Ordeal of Elizabeth by Anonymous

Cautiously approaching the edge, I noticed it had been just broken away under the tramplings of a horse, and as I peeped over I caught sight of an indistinct figure lying on a broad slab of rock below that jutted out some way from the cliff.
— from Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease

A book sewn on raised bands, with the thread passed entirely around each band, allowing the book to open freely.
— from Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (Pertaining to the art of binding books.—Dibdin) to which is appended a glossary of some terms used in the craft by Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Company

They number about two thousand people, and including what they spend at their festivals, which are more like bacchanalian riots than religious ceremonies, and are accompanied by scenes of revolting bestiality, their annual expenses cannot be more than one half of their incomes.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

Hanging Rock two prisoners were brought to me--one a chaplain, the other a boy, son of Richard Bacot, of Charleston, whom I had known as a cadet at West Point.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

His perceptions were yet clouded by a bewildering sense of relief, but it struck him that the hammock-bearers came on in an ominous silence.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss