My regiment, the Third Artillery, occupied the posts along the Atlantic coast of Florida, from St. Augustine south to Key Biscayne, and my own company, A, was at Fort Pierce, Indian River.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“Bah!—The only consolation one feels for such annoyances is to complain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

These categories of freedom- for so we choose to call them in contrast to those theoretic categories which are categories of physical nature- have an obvious advantage over the latter, inasmuch as the latter are only forms of thought which designate objects in an indefinite manner by means of universal concept of every possible intuition; the former, on the contrary, refer to the determination of a free elective will (to which indeed no exactly corresponding intuition can be assigned, but which has as its foundation a pure practical a priori law, which is not the case with any concepts belonging to the theoretic use of our cognitive faculties); hence, instead of the form of intuition (space and time), which does not lie in reason itself, but has to be drawn from another source, namely, the sensibility, these being elementary practical concepts have as their foundation the form of a pure will, which is given in reason and, therefore, in the thinking faculty itself.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

(←) 1 v [AB12; a] come out flat, flatten s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The first half-hour was allotted to making themselves comfortable; for they complained of having had a very dirty walk, as they came on foot from Snow Hill, where Mr. Branghton keeps a silversmith’s shop; and the young ladies had not only their coats to brush, and shoes to dry, but to adjust their head-dress, which their bonnets had totally discomposed.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

some said the forehead, some the teeth, some the eyes, cheeks, lips, neck, chin, &c., the controversy was referred to Lais of Corinth to decide; but she, smiling, said, they were a company of fools; for suppose they had her where they wished, what would they
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She raised her voice again, glancing round at the circle of familiar faces, some of them not looking too friendly, inasmuch as Agatha and John were favourites in the village.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

for [211] profit, the annual consumption of fried fish supplied by London street-sellers amounts to 684,000 lbs., and the sum expended thereupon to £11,400 Street-sellers of Sheep’s Trotters.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

The diet throughout must be light, and consist of farinaceous food, such as rice and sago puddings, beef-tea and toast; and not till convalescence sets in should hard or animal food be given.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork, herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed together.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Fortunately the current ran swiftly, and as the ice neared more swiftly still, and just when the position was growing most perilous, the surface became clear of floating fragments, such as would injure the screw.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

[Pg 145] “It is expressly agreed that the preceding articles shall comprehend no debts but such as are due to citizens of the United States who have been and are yet creditors of France, for supplies , for embargoes , and prizes made at sea in which the appeal has been properly lodged within the time mentioned in the said Convention, 30th September, 1800.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Another of the inscriptions of Gruter is specially interesting in relation to its date, for it was cut at the commencement of the reign of Domitian, 398 and in the year of the consulship of F. Flavius Sabinus, which year chronologists know to have been the eighty-third of the Christian era.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

Less happy, perhaps, has Zola been in the case of Flora, "fair, strong, with thick lips, and great greenish eyes, with low forehead set beneath heavy hair."
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

It is but fair to say that the majority of these accusations came originally from French sources, but they were eagerly adopted here; and, although they might be, and probably were, taken at their proper valuation by the [94] educated classes, there is no doubt but the lower classes regarded him as a ruffianly murderer.
— from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton

Cinderella's glass slipper in the fairy-tale, which came originally from France, should really have been translated "fur," it being easy to understand how the old French word vaire was supposed to be a form of verre , and was rendered accordingly.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen