What I now write I do not offer as any thing like a history of the important events of that time, but rather as my memory of them, the effect they had on me personally, and to what extent they influenced my personal conduct.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There was but little water, and the bottom of the drain was raised with brick, rubbish, and much matter of the kind.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Moreover, my visits were made after a certain ascertained quantity of guano had been removed, and my measurements of the quantity remaining were therefore easily checked.
— from Peru in the Guano Age Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied by A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield

Let us hope that it is not strictly a part of the old ceremony, but rather a minor manifestation of "Town and Gown" feeling, that the town boys jeer the choristers, and in return are pelted with rotten eggs.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

In other words, I have endeavoured to discover what are the fundamental principles of ethical reasoning; and the establishment of these principles, rather than of any conclusions which may be attained by their use, may be regarded as my main object.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

The ceaseless caravans, threading the desert from east to west and back again, brought riches and more mingling of races.
— from Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

Anonymous letters were expedients to which Miss Galton had before had recourse, and to an anonymous letter they determined to commit the secret of Emmeline's infidelity—while James Crofts, in his letters to his brother, was to corroborate the intelligence it contained, by relating as mere matter of news what had actually and evidently happened, Emmeline's sudden departure from Woodfield.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

With regard to the cause of sensation, it must be regarded as much more obscure than that of motion, inasmuch as we have no conscious knowledge of it, i. e. we have no power, by any act of our minds and will, to call up a sensation.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

If you should some day receive a telegram asking for a cookie, you may know that I need to be rejuvenated, and mail me one at once."
— from Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City by Clara Louise Burnham