He was one of your wary men, who never laugh but upon good grounds—when they have reason and the law on their side.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

There was the actor Anderson, who brought us Gerald Griffin's "Gysippus," and play'd it to admiration.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He was one of your wary men, who never laugh but upon good grounds--when they have reason and law on their side.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Set there in the midst of the town, after the Bohemian fashion, it opens at the back upon great gardens, as if it were in the midst of the country.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

McPherson encountered the enemy, five thousand strong with two batteries under General Gregg, about two miles out of Raymond.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Afterwards, during the holding of a special Court for the settlement of individual ground-claims, a minute search into the history of the region south of the Vaal revealed an unsuspected flimsiness in Waterboer's title, and the judgment of the Court thereupon threw out all titles based upon Griqua grants.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

The fighting column was to be under General G. W. Smith, his next in rank, and General Whiting was assigned command of Smith’s division,—the column to consist of A. P. Hill’s, Whiting’s, and D. R. Jones’s divisions.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

At Saratoga he commanded a separate battalion under General Gates, and was afterwards at Monmouth, where he distinguished himself and the regiment by a gallant charge.
— from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

In order to enforce this measure, British troops were concentrated at Boston under General Gage.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Now Adam had been created by God just and righteous, so that he could not have needed to be justified and made righteous by keeping the garden and working in it; but, that he might not be unemployed, God gave him the business of keeping and cultivating paradise.
— from Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. by Martin Luther

A fortnight later Lord Cornwallis, with the forces at Brunswick, under General Grant, advanced to Princeton and then moved forward to attack the army at Trenton.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

On Harold's birthday Uncle George gave him a Shetland pony.
— from Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 07, February 15, 1914 by Various

For me to force you back upon General Grant would be forcing him to resign.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln