By a treaty concluded at DeWitts Corners in South Carolina on May 20, 1777, the first ever made with the new states, the Lower Cherokee surrendered to the conqueror all of their remaining territory in South Carolina, excepting a narrow strip along the western boundary.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He has chosen well, for this county is so cleaned of men it won't pay to send the conscript officers here."
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

These as general propositions; of course, in special cases, one might easily come to grief, as in dealing with birds like penguins, which are particularly adapted for an aquatic life, and have the feathers highly modified.
— from Animals of the Past by Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus) Lucas

“There is a divinity that shapes our ends,” after all; a Siamese missionary came to Old Charity Chapel, in Shelby County, Ohio, my home church, and told the story of the Cross.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

In return for all their services, they only ask me to accommodate them with a convenient chamber in some corner of my humble habitation where they may repose in peace; for these friends are more delighted by the tranquility of retirement than with the tumults of society."
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

“How can I stand clear, old man, if you are going to get into a mess?
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

If, however, it were not safer to admire than to criticise in such cases, one might observe how vast a space is lost in the walls and arrangements {82} of the interior, the breadth which strikes the eye being only fifty feet, while the real breadth of the side walls is at least eighty.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

It can be made into rolls, and sliced off, or packed in plates and cut into small cubes, or made into any shape imitating French candies.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

“In which case I shall call on Miss Varnhagen.”
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace