↑ 261 List or missions and reports of missionaries, etc., American State Papers: Indian Affairs, II , pp.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

If you’ll wash a few shirts for me when you get home, and send ‘em along, I’ll give you a ride on my engine.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I know those who would be shocked by such a representation of Mr Elliot, who would have difficulty in believing it; but I have never been satisfied.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

In sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

But above all he admired Reinaldos of Montalban, especially when he saw him sallying forth from his castle and robbing everyone he met, and when beyond the seas he stole that image of Mahomet which, as his history says, was entirely of gold.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

While this scheme corresponds in one direction with the demons of cold, and in another with the entrance and reign of moral evil in the world, beginnings of disease on earth were also ascribed to this seventh thousand of years when the Golden Age had passed.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The other, which is codified in a single country, gives it its gods, its own tutelary patrons; it has its dogmas, its rites, and its external cult prescribed by law; outside the single nation that follows it, all the world is in its sight infidel, foreign and barbarous; the duties and rights of man extend for it only as far as its own altars.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you'll wash a few shirts for me when you get home, Page 211 [Pg 211] and send 'em along, I'll give you a ride on my engine.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I rouses up, and rests on my elbow and listens; pretty soon I hears it again.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The rays that Langley disowned, as well as those which he fathered, were occult, supersensual, irrational; they were a revelation of mysterious energy like that of the Cross; they were what, in terms of mediæval science, were called immediate modes of the divine substance.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Lizzie Fleming said Maria was sure to get the ring and, though Fleming had said that for so many Hallow Eves, Maria had to laugh and say she didn’t want any ring or man either; and when she laughed her grey-green eyes sparkled with disappointed shyness and the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

"You cannot understand him nor he you, and he would probably rush off to make a report of my escape.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich

But all was now changed; the earnestness of religious controversy in Edward's time, and the fury of persecution since, had put to flight Apollo, the Muses, and the Graces: Learning indeed had kept her station and her honors, but she had lent her lamp to other studies, and whether in the tongue of ancient Rome or modern England, Elizabeth was hailed in Christian strains, and as the sovereign of a Christian country.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

As a result of my examination and discussion of the burial mounds of Wisconsin, I reached the conclusion that they were built by the Indian tribes found inhabiting that section at the advent of the whites, or by their ancestors.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

But it is only due to the sense of honour which had been impressed on me, even in the riot and roughness of my Eton days, to say, that I did not hesitate for a moment Sending one of the attendants to arouse the chief clerk, I stood waiting his arrival with the bulletin unopened in my hands.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

If in addition to such proofs of kindness and friendship, you enable me to see Manon again, rely on my eternal regard and gratitude.
— from Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost

In one of these Essays, entitled “The Classificatory System of Relationships,” Mr. McLennan devotes one section (41 pages) to an attempted refutation of my explanation of the origin of the classificatory system; and another (36 pages) to an explanation of his own of the origin of the same system.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

The astonishment and relief of mind experienced by our friends at this discovery cannot be described.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng