I had no cavalry to send in pursuit, but knowing that there was always an understanding between these guerrillas and their friends who staid at home, I sent for three or four of the principal men of Florence (among them a Mr. Foster, who had once been a Senator in Congress), explained to them the capture of young Taylor and his comrade, and demanded their immediate restoration.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As an afflicted marquis observed not long ago (he must have been treated by a specialist) in confession to his spiritual father—a Jesuit.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before Keats was fifteen years old both parents died, and he was placed with his brothers and sisters in charge of guardians.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The second māttu cloth is then brought, and she is clad in it.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Contact with it, in the shape of Palmerston, Russell, and Gladstone, made him hesitate; he saw his own national type--his father, Weed, Evarts, for instance--deal with the British, and show itself certainly not the weaker; certainly sometimes the stronger.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[Pg 8] nature of the Universe must necessarily be closely connected with that touching the ethical significance of human action; and because, in any case, that which is presented as the foundation of morality, if it is not to be merely an abstract formula, floating in the clouds, and out of contact with the real world, must be some fact or other discoverable either in the objective kosmos, or else in man's consciousness; but, as such, it can itself be only a phaenomenon; and consequently, like all other phaenomena, it requires a further explanation; and this explanation is supplied by Metaphysics.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The bread is broken and Stured in Coald water untill it be Sufficiently thick and then eaten, in this way the nativ's most generally use it-.-.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He who says to-day: "I refuse to be a soldier," "I care not for tribunals," "I lay no claim to the services of the police," "I will not do anything that disturbs the peace within me:
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All brave in arms, well trained to wield The heavy halberd, brand, and shield; In camps licentious, wild, and bold; In pillage fierce and uncontrolled; And now, by holytide and feast, From rules of discipline released.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

His laconic "Good night!" told me he would rather be alone, so I closed the door and left him.
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

True it is, these descents oblige the French king to employ a considerable number of his troops for the defence of his maritime places: they serve to ruin the trade of his subjects, protect the navigation of Great Britain, and secure its coast from invasion; but these purposes might be as effectually answered, at a much smaller expense, by the shipping alone.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

After a little more banging and shouting, I could hear him kneel down and try the keyhole.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 42, June, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

There must always be a satisfaction in catching so great a rogue so easily."
— from The Submarine Boys on Duty Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham

He was, in one sense, a thoroughly satisfactory apparition, being suitably clad in full trappings of war, buckskin and turkey feathers, bear’s teeth and paint; he was none of those miserable half-breed travesties of Indians who sometimes still sneaked round to the tavern kitchen, clad in vile clothes of [Pg 413] civilization, so greasy and worn and dirty that a blanket would have been as stately in comparison as a Roman toga; Indians devoid of bravery, dignity, and even of cunning, whose laziness, high cheek-bones, and hair coarse as a horse’s tail, and their unvarying love of rum, were the only proofs of Indian blood; whose skin, even, had turned from copper tawny to dingy yellow.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

This was a serious discovery for poor Myrtle, but she smiled bravely and said: "I can pass the night in this seat very comfortably, so please don't worry about me.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Its nearest analogues show, besides a similarity in character, a likeness as regards physical properties and a proximity in atomic weight.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Those birds frequent the shores of Hudson's Bay and Straits in considerable numbers; but more particularly the Northern parts, where they fly in large flocks; to the Southward they are only seen in pairs.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne