7. It went into rest cantonments at Helfrantzkirch (northeast of Basle), and remained there until September 25.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

Sedjur and his party, however, understood their business, and rounding them up, soon pacified them.
— from The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

It would not be a real thing, unless she understood.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

“Judy, would it be—be all right to use some of the mackerel-money?
— from Judith Lynn: A Story of the Sea by Annie Hamilton Donnell

Following his arrest early Friday afternoon, Oswald was brought immediately to this building and remained there until Sunday morning, November 24, when he was scheduled to be transferred to the county jail.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

He opened his book and read the usual service in Arabic.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

The men with the shovels, standing up to their knees in pilchards, working energetically; the crowd stretching down from the salting-house, across the beach, and hemming in the boat all round; the uninterrupted succession of men hurrying backwards and forwards with their barrows, through a narrow way kept clear for them in the throng; the glare of the lanterns giving light to the workmen, and throwing red flashes on the fish as they fly incessantly from the shovels over the side of the boat—all combine together to produce such a series of striking contrasts, such a moving picture of bustle and animation, as not even the most careless of spectators could ever forget.
— from Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins

“What of the other Nationalities?” “Prussia, under a new régime , becomes indeed a Fatherland to her people; Belgium, Holland, and other of the Germanic lands, become consolidated with empires now existing; Spain’s night draws near—her colonies, erected into Black Republics, leave her to sink in loneliness, until at last she becomes, with Rome, an integral part of the great Italian Empire; Austria becomes dismembered; Hungary and Poland coalesce and form a new power on the earth; Turkey passes into Greek hands; Syria into Russian; England loses Canada, India, Oregon and Ireland, which latter becomes a Republic; the United States, rejoined, absorbs Canada, Mexico and all British America—her Black races found an empire which will extend from her southern borders to Brazil, under the rule of a series of Presidents; China, Christianized by the Taepings, becomes a first-class power in the East, blotting out Japan and a score of lesser kingdoms; while India and Australia become respectively an Empire and a Republic; and all this within sixty-three years from the seventh decade of the century!”
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

It is a curious thing that, feeling as he did the pressure of work, he should have been always ready to undertake some additional task.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton