The Ridges, both father and son, were rich.... 332 While all the evidence shows that Ross was in no way a party to the affair, there can be no question that the men were killed in accordance with the law of the Nation—three times formulated, and still in existence—which made it treason, punishable with death, to cede away lands except by act of the general council of the Nation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This caused a little excitement, but nothing was done in the matter.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Modern Miss Millions demands handkerchief linen and Valenciennes lace of a quality that used to be put as trimming on a ball gown, and Miss Smallpurse asks for chiffon and less expensive but even more sheer and perishable laces.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Here stood a big deserted city called Corsote, almost literally environed by the stream, which flows round it in a circle.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Katerina Ivanovna ran to the window; there, on a broken chair in the corner, a large earthenware basin full of water had been stood, in readiness for washing her children’s and husband’s linen that night.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fearing some one might overhear our plans, I bade him hush his complaints and, leaving Eumolpus behind--for he was reciting a poem in the bath--I pull Giton down a dark and dirty passage, after me, and fly with all speed to my lodgings.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It was about six o'clock in the evening, on the third day of April (1566), that the long-expected cavalcade at last entered Brussels.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

With a devoted wife, who sympathized with him in his literary tastes, and aided him in his preparation for his literary work, with five children (two boys now at Williams College, one daughter, and two younger sons), all bright and promising, with a happy and joyous temperament that drew around him warmly-attached friends, with a mind continually broadening and expanding in every direction, respected and appreciated by his countrymen, and loved even by his political opponents, Garfield's lot seemed and was a rarely happy one.
— from From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

We are sorry to see him apply the coarse and libellous epithet "bloody" to Queen Mary of England.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

He left Barbadoes and retired to Carolina, where he built an excellent house on Cooper River, in hopes of settling in that country, and long enjoying, by the influence of his brother, the emoluments of his office in tranquillity and happiness.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

Mr. Gordon pleasantly remarked when we arrived, that he had some cases which he should have presented if the magistrate had come a little earlier, but he presumed he should forget them before his next visit.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Their object was to create a large enough burned over area so that the main wall of the advancing fire would move around them.
— from Janet Hardy in Radio City by Ruthe S. Wheeler

Nor can any lines express better a real love for the actual beauty of familiar scenes combined with an imaginative longing for the ideal beauty consecrated by old poetic associations,—like to that which in modern times has often driven our Northern poets and artists across the Alps,—than the Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes; Flumina amem silvasque inglorius.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Mr. Colby called again last evening; but of course no business could be transacted.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

Captain and Lady Evelyn Blake were quite incapable of inventing such a thing.
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

There are several books on wages, capital and labour, etc., but it seems to me that most thinkers and writers treat the subject on grounds too narrow.
— from The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant