How the Navy Has Grown.—The Cost and Character of Our New White Ships of War.—Our Period of Naval Weakness and our Advance to a Place among the Great Naval Powers.—The New Devices of Naval Warfare.—The Torpedo, the Dynamite Gun, and the Modern Rifle.—Armor and its Possibilities.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
and after making the old woods ring with the clatter and clink of our noontide meal, mingled with floods of laughter, were to come to the village, and to the very inn from which the disconsolate Mr. Tupman wrote to Mr. Pickwick, after his adventure with Miss Wardle.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields
He was of all comedians the chastest and closest observer of nature.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins
N Author of “Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine,” “Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre,” “Rambles in Normandy,” “Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor-Car,” etc.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The National Energy Plan made energy conservation a cornerstone of our national energy policy.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents
Moreover, in a legal signification, forthwith must mean between sunrise and sunset, the statute commanding that all executions shall take place by the light of the sun, and consequently the two terms ratified and confirmed each other, instead of conveying a contradiction, or of neutralizing each other, as would most probably be contended by the opposite counsel.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
Maritime surveys have now completed a correct outline of Northern Africa.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish
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