Our guns were loaded and run out, men appointed to each, cartridges served out, matches lighted, and all the flags ready to be run up.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

When an embarkation is to take place, the position and arrangement of the ships at the docks, the number and regiments of men assigned to each are arranged, have been arranged, often
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

At the last meeting in the month Count Rumford was authorised to carry into effect his proposition for a repository of models, and to employ such artisans as he might think necessary, paying according to his discretion for their services.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

[Footnote 1: In the fifty-seven years preceding the Mutiny the annual rate of mortality amongst the European troops in India was sixty-nine per thousand, and in some stations it was even more appalling.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

The visit of Miss Rivers was an early one, some time before their mid-day dinner; and the day went on quietly after its usual fashion, and fell into the stillness of a sunny afternoon, which looked like a reminiscence of midsummer among these early October days.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

could you speak to me of the means of redeeming my character, which is lost—innocent though I am, as well you know,—could you give me back my peace of mind, my self-respect, my confidence in myself, the esteem and respect of men, and the enjoyment of an unsullied name,—could you efface the mark from my shoulder, Augustine, and wipe from my memory the dread impression of the exposure in the Place de Grêve with the five long years’ sojourn at the galleys,—could you do all this, Augustine, I would throw myself at your feet, I would forgive you the wrongs I have endured, I would almost worship you!’—‘There is something which may yet be done,’ said Augustine, after a long pause, ‘which would partially remedy the evil, and which would at all events prove my contrition for the part that I enacted in the matter.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

But when he had ended, Master Cotton Mather, who was riding around on his horse, said to the people that "the Devil often transformed himself into an angel of light; and that Master Burroughs was not a rightly ordained minister;" and the executioner at a sign from the official, cut the matter short by turning off the condemned man.
— from Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem by Henry Peterson

will you entrust me with the cause of your sorrow, and rest on my assurances to exert my utmost power to serve you.”
— from Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson

“Now the poor girl told this false friend that she was enceinte , and that her lover would marry her; and the dear friend took her, as the saying is, a trip to Volterra, during which a man was treated like a prince and robbed or murdered at the end.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

—A ring of muscle around the end of the stomach keeps the food from escaping until it has become a thin grayish liquid.
— from Health Lessons, Book 1 by Alvin Davison