Uncle said "that from 1,900 of us boys of that 22d New York Heavy Artillery, over 600 were killed in half an hour, and at the next roll call at Reams Station, only nineteen men of the regiment answered the call."
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

For more than two centuries the cold and rocky soil of New England has yielded its annual tribute, and it still lies green and luxuriant beneath the sun of our brief summer.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

Many of these come provided with memorandum books filled with column after column of figures, records of past runs on colours, and recurring sequences of numbers carefully inscribed as a guide to fathoming the capricious movements of fortune.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill

Sometimes the wrong kind of bacteria do persist, causing anemia, rheumatism, sciatica, or neuritis.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

Cum autem relatum sit oratores nulli labore parcere in sacris expeditionibus peragendis, et in proximorum conversione, Christianaque institutione curanda, et idcirco a pluribus Antistibus commendentur, visum est SSmo Domino magis expedire eos a præfata Congregatione eximi, ut in sacri ministerii opera promovenda sub directione
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

The French original has been adapted and enlarged in the light of recent research, and all possible sources have been drawn upon to make a complete and rounded story of Napoleon's boyhood upon the basis furnished by Madame Foa's sketch.
— from The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French by Eugénie Foa

The chiseled doorways to those caves are rare specimens of Nature's mysterious work; some large, some small and of queer, fantastic shapes; that black-mouthed gape at chance passers, while towering high above, a roof of table land—arid, scorching pampas, is just as uninviting as the water way below.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

Rather, the original barbarism, from which the arts of civilization had for a little lifted men, was itself a degeneration from a previous ideal estate, and human history as a whole was a cyclic and repetitious story of never-ending rise and fall.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

"In 1620, the very same year in which the Pilgrims landed on the cold and rocky shores of New England, a Dutch ship, freighted with souls, touched the banks of James river, where the wretched people were employed as Slaves in the cultivation of that hateful weed, tobacco.
— from Calumny Refuted by Facts From Liberia With Extracts From the Inaugural Address of the Coloured President Roberts; an Eloquent Speech of Hilary Teage, a Coloured Senator; and Extracts From a Discourse by H. H. Garnett, a Fugitive Slave, on the Past and Present Condition, and Destiny of the Coloured Race. Presented to the Boston Anti-slavery Bazaar, U.S., By the Author of "A Tribute for the Negro." by Wilson Armistead

And I think it equally obvious that the latter direction can alone really supply our need.
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter