The same is the case as regards Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
he'll find himself somewhere awful perhaps in a really good hotel and not know how he got there."
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit
Inscription on stone at Rullion Green HERE AND NEAR TO THIS PLACE LYES THE REVEREND M R JOHN CROOKSHANK AND M R ANDREW M C CORMICK MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL AND ABOUT FIFTY OTHER TRUE COVENANTED PRESBYTERIANS WHO WERE KILLED IN THIS PLACE IN THEIR OWN INOCENT SELF DEFENCE AND DEFFENCE OF THE COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is obvious to add that punctuality and early hours in the morning will bring into your life another rule; that of punctuality and reasonably good hours at night.
— from To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
The official praised him for his honesty and faithfulness, and as a reward gave him a note of recommendation saying [71] what a good, honest chief he was.
— from Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby
If the Colonel, however, notwithstanding all his study and effort, could not succeed in imitating the Doctor's happy selection of expressions and purity of style, [Pg 71] he could at any rate give him a nickname—so he called him Hoftens, not to his face, but to Lady Helena at home, and to the adjutant, and to one or two other people who knew him, and the nickname became popular; and, after a while, the officers called Dr. Bardly Hoftens to his face, which he took with perfect good-nature.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Ann Rutledge gave him a new view of the Bible and Shakespeare.
— from Lincoln's Use of the Bible by S. Trevena Jackson
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