It received its name of Apamea from Prusias, king of Bithynia, in compliment to his wife.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He dropped out of his conversational vein and back into his lecture-gait without an effort, and rolled on as follows— 'A little distance above Lake City is a famous point known as Maiden's Rock, which is not only a picturesque spot, but is full of romantic interest from the event which gave it its name, Not many years ago this locality was a favorite resort for the Sioux Indians on account of the fine fishing and hunting to be had there, and large numbers of them were always to be found in this locality.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And few people knew of it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Indeed, this counsellor Is now most still, most secret, and most grave, Who was in life a foolish peating knave.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The pleasure which we experience from light is in fact only the pleasure which arises from the objective possibility of the purest and fullest perceptive knowledge, and as such it may be traced to the fact that pure knowledge, freed and delivered from all will, is in the highest degree pleasant, and of itself constitutes a large part of æsthetic enjoyment.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal, And from Pope Innocent the legate here, Do in his name religiously demand Why thou against the Church, our holy mother, So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce Keep Stephen Langton, chosen Archbishop Of Canterbury, from that holy see?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

pulkum n acronym for pulis kumisyunir , member of the Police Commission. pulmun, pulmunya, pulmuníya n diseases of the lungs, esp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He had been to many places, and killed a great many wild beasts—so much all the world knew, and few people knew anything more.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Even in summer the surf sometimes runs so high that it is dangerous to approach the edge of the cliffs; and few people know how pleasant it is to watch the eddying swirl of the water round the promontories on the westerly side.
— from Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier by Frank Preston Stearns

At Niumahu, 2 miles from Lihue, on the road leading south and west from the harbor of Nawiliwili, is a fish pond known as Alakoka.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

At first Professor Kinde stopped lecturing and fumbled for his other spectacles only when he heard the class titter; I don't believe he in the least knew what was going on.
— from The Diary of a Freshman by Charles Macomb Flandrau

The commission convened at Fort McPherson in April, 1867, and after thirty days' investigation made its report, which concluded with the following summary: "We, therefore, report that all the Sioux Indians occupying the country about Fort Phil Kearney have been in a state of war against the whites since the 20th day of June, 1866, and that they have waged and carried on this war for the purpose of defending their ancient possessions from invasion and occupation by the whites.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

As for poor Kearney, other troubles were awaiting him in his study, where he found his son and Mr. Holmes, the lawyer, sitting before a table covered with papers.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

Sitting Bull at, 184 ; Gen. Reynolds captures Crazy Horse’s village on the, 186 ; Gen. Terry at, 218 , 265 , 312 Powder River Expedition, the, 3 –18; reminiscences of, 59 –71 Powell, Capt. James, 22 ; report of, to Gen. Carrington, 23 ; command of relief party given to, 25 ; detailed to guard wood-cutting party, 42 ; sketch of, 42 ; his gallant fight in the wagon-corral against Red Cloud, 48 –55; promotion of, 57 Prairie schooners, early use of, 7 Pretty Bear, Cheyenne chief, killed, 176 , 177 Pumpkin Buttes, 61 R Rabbit Creek, 307 Rain-in-the-Face (Itiomagaju), Indian chief, his grievance, 209 –215; capture of, 213 –215; escapes, 215 ; attacks Custer, 256 ; his revenge, 257 ; his personal story of the fight, 279 –292; boasts of murdering Dr. Honzinger, 283 ; his map of Custer’s battlefield, 287 ; wounded, 289 note Red Cloud (Mahapiya-luta), Sioux chief, opposes treaty with Gen. Carrington, 7 , 8 ; revenge on, for massacre at Fort Phil Kearney, 39 ; becomes leading war chief, 40 ; surprised and disarmed by Gen. Mackenzie, 40 note; his most thrilling adventure, 40 , 41 , note; determines to capture Fort Phil Kearney, 41 ; 418 his attack, 46 ; his baptism of fire, 51 –56; his losses in the attack on Capt. Powell’s wagon-corral, 58 Red Cloud Agency, 293 Rees, Indian auxiliaries, 238 , 240 , 267 Religious belief of Indians in regard to scalping, 91 –92 note Reno, Major Marcus A., in the Big Horn country, 218 ; Custer gives command to, 232 ; record of, 232 note; his advance, 234 –236; his failure at the Little Big Horn, 237 –243; plan of his defence on the bluff, 247 ; his failure to press his attack, 260 ; his report to Custer, 265 ; further light on the conduct of Major Reno, 398 –405 Reno’s Creek, 233 , 253 Reynolds, Charlie, famous scout, killed with Custer, 258 Reynolds, Gen. Joseph J., surprises and takes Crazy Horse’s village, 186 Riley, Lieut., killed, 258 Rodenbough, Gen., his “Sabre and Bayonet” quoted, 43 , 44 Roman Nose, Indian chief, insolent speech of, 72 , 73 ; attacks Capt. Forsyth, 83 –85; charge of his five hundred warriors, 85 –88; killed, 87 ; his tepee discovered by Capt. Carpenter, 105 , 108 , 109 Romero, Indian interpreter, 155 , 167 Rosebud River, Crook’s advance against Indians on the, 189 , 191 –193; battle of the, 193 –198; map of battle, 197 ; Ex-Trooper Towne’s account of the battle on, 203 –208 Rough Riders of ’68, the, 72 –96 Royall, Col. William B., Fifth Cavalry, ordered to attack Indians on Beaver Creek, 124 ; given command under Gen. Crook, 188 ; anecdote of, 188 note; charges Indians at the Rosebud, 195 , 196 , 198 S Salt Lake, white settlements at, 5 Salt Lake trail, 59 Sample, Gen. Carrington’s orderly, reports on Fetterman’s command, 30 Sand Creek, 60 Sans Arc Indians attack Capt. Powell’s corral, 48 Santa Fé trail, 7 Satanta, Kiowa Indian chief, 164 ; captured by Custer, 169 Savage warfare, 339 –344 Savagery, the rights of, 6 Scalping, Indian belief in, 91 –92 note Schlesinger, Sigmund, his bravery in Gen. Forsyth’s fight, 110 ; Gen. Fry’s poem on, 110 note; his story of the defense of Beecher’s Island, 113 –122 Schwatka, Lieut., Arctic explorer, successful attack on Sioux by, 307 Second Cavalry, in tragedy of Fort Phil Kearney, 25 , 60 ; 419 other engagements, 188 , 195 , 196 , 312 , 335 Settlers on Indian lands, 6 –7 Seventh Cavalry, Gen. Custer in command of, 146 ; formation of regiment, 147 ; protects Kansas settlers, 148 ; in Sheridan’s winter campaign, 150 ; other engagements, 213 , 218 , 229 , 293 , 305 , 355 Sheridan, Gen. Philip, attacks the Cheyenne Indians, 75 ; inaugurates winter campaign against Indians, 150 Sheridan City, terminus of Union Pacific Railroad, 134 Sherman, Gen., advises ladies to join Gen. Carrington’s expedition, 11 ; boy’s challenge to, 12 ; acquits Gen. Carrington of all blame for disaster at Fort Phil Kearney, 38 Short Nose Creek, 125 , 127 Shoshone Indians, auxiliaries in Gen. Crook’s expedition, 190 , 205 Sibley, Lieut.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

I should have married them at once the instant I read it, but old Frankland was a fidgety, punctilious kind of man, and he insisted on a six months' probation, so that she might be certain of knowing her own mind.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

Gifted alike for literature and for philosophy, keen of vision in economic problems where the mass of men were short-sighted, he was flawed on the side of his faith by the hysteria to which
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson