I have heretofore stated that the gold was first found in the tail-race of the stew-mill at Coloma, forty miles above Sutter's Fort, or fifteen above Mormon Island, in the bed of the American Fork of the Sacramento River.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

No, Sir, there is no real criticism in it: none shewing the beauty of thought, as formed on the workings of the human heart.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

8 Fancy having documents like the foregoing handed you with ever-increasing regularity as you sauntered, morning after morning, from your bath to your coffee and rolls, preparatory to the daily sifting of incidents such as that which included the burning of the American flag on the head of the municipal representative of American authority already mentioned, and other like acts of poor misguided peasants stirred up by trifling [ 465 ] scamps representing the dregs of insurrection.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

As he shifted, Bill knew that the next light he saw would be on the adamant face of the Medicorps.
— from Beyond Bedlam by Wyman Guin

The reports of the hour of opening battle are more conflicting in this than in most battles, owing possibly to the fact that many are fixed by the beginning of the hot battle about the trenched camp, while others are based on the actual firing of the signal-guns.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

“No,” he went on, “Claudia is never so charming as when she has some little intrigue or other on hand; but I must really get at the bottom of this, and find out the belle inconnue .
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

We had birds of the air, fowls of the land, and beasts of all kinds' from the great black ox of the plain to the small wild RAB-BIT that came and made its hole close by our cave.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable by Lucy Aikin

One winding down on the left forms the branch route to St. Sauveur, the other, to the right—which we took—passes the cemetery, and leaving the new church in the same direction, leads to the back of the ancient fane of the Templars, through the town.
— from 'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees by E. Ernest Bilbrough

Folding Garments To fold, lay all articles on the bed or table and fold on the seams if possible.
— from Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

In 535 Anthimus, bishop of Trebizond, a friend of the deposed patriarch of Antioch, Severus, who was at least semi-Monophysite, was elected to the patriarchal throne of New Rome.
— from The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

That the meeting be open to all friends of the revolution.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Far below, on the asphalt floor of the court, was a dark mass which moved once and then lay still.
— from Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan