"Jim!" "What?" "How do you think the reg'ment 'll do?" "Oh, they'll fight all right, I guess, after they once get into it," said the other with cold judgment.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Mr. Norton further quotes the following from a letter he had just received from a Hollander who was a refugee in Germany at the outbreak of the war, and reached home on August 30, 1914:— Never, I believe, did a country so thoroughly get ready for war.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

A group of five towns lying just north of Jerusalem, with Gibeon at their head, succeeded by a ruse in getting a treaty of peace from Joshua.
— from A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments by James Oscar Boyd

It is only as regards its great antiquity that one would contrast Malta with our own country.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

So long as notes are redeemable in gold at the option of the holder, nobody wants them redeemed....
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

The breathing pores are arranged in vertical lines, and resemble in general appearance those of the ferns, though differing in some minor details.
— from Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell