Personally I took rooms at No. 100 Prince Street, in which house were also quartered Major J. G. Barnard, and Lieutenant J. B. McPherson, United States Engineers, both of whom afterward attained great fame in the civil war.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Being in such intimate relations and intercourse with the leaders of the Breckinridge wing of the Democratic party during the progress of the Presidential canvass, and that party being made up so exclusively of the extreme Southern Democrats, the President must have had constant information of the progress and development of the disunion sentiment and purpose in the South.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

"Well, the story was not badly made up," said Edward, "only for a deer read man: and what did the intendant say to that?"
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

Mentioned in Catalogus illustrium Franciscanorum , and by Bale (MS. ut supra ) ‘ex bibliotheca Nordovicensi
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Convinced beyond question that the attack would be made unless some extraordinary means was taken to avert it, Carson took one of the fleetest footed Mexican boys outside the camp, and, pointing in the direction of the ranche of himself and Maxwell, nearly three hundred miles away, told him he must make all speed thither, and tell the soldiers that unless they hurried to his help he and all his companions were doomed to certain death at the hands of an overwhelming war party of Cheyennes.
— from The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. by Edward Sylvester Ellis

It is lowered or raised at the will of the bird, but more usually stands erect.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon