Your recourse is the President and a pardon; I will recommend it, but"--putting his hand upon my shoulder--"here is the man to get the pardon if the President can be brought to see the case as most of us see it."
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Copy of a telegram from Captain Nunn, C.M.G., R.N. "'We, the officers and men of the Royal Navy who have been associated with the Tigris Corps, and many of us so often worked with you and your gallant troops, desire to express our heartfelt regret at our inability to join hands with you and your comrades in Kut.'" (Sd.) C. V. F. Townshend , Major-General, Commanding 6th Division and Forces at Kut.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

Your recourse is the President and a pardon; I will recommend it, but"--putting his hand upon my shoulder--"here is the man to get the pardon if the President can be brought to see the case as most of us see it.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Thus a row of houses, which a few years ago bore the not very euphonious name of Castle Ditch, from its having followed a portion of the line of the moat by which the fortress which once stood near it was surrounded, was changed into St George's Crescent, and many others underwent similar transmutations.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 by Various

New Year’s morning broke fine and clear, and most of us spent the fore-noon in further explorations of the island, while our skipper and chef took advantage of the Italians’ hospitable offer of their wood fire on which to boil a dozen or so crayfish.
— from Christmas on the Briny, The Innocents Abroad Or, A Holiday Trip to the Abrolhos Islands by W. Bede (William Bede) Christie

For immediately after we leave this House there will come a multitude of unclean Spirits, who shall inflict great Torments upon thee, and threaten thee with greater: They will promise to lead thee to the Door, by which thou hast enter'd in here, to see if by this means they might deceive thee, and get thee to go out.
— from The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Every year, or oftener, this life took the form of great religious activity, and sweeping revivals occurred, bringing well-nigh all in the College and many outside under spiritual influence, and many converts into the church.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

The massive rock is largely made up in places of stems of crinoids—stone lilies which grew in the greatest profusion in these quiet waters—and the tilted layers may be made of casts and moulds of unbroken shells of little bivalves.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Now let no conservative accuse me of upholding school rebellion.
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern