Canup, W. T. , acknowledgments to 13 Cape Girardeau , settlement of Delawares and Shawano at 99 Cardinal flower in Cherokee lore 424 Carrington on East Cherokee chiefs 175 Carrington on East Cherokee constitution 173 Carrington on East Cherokee in Civil war 170 , 171 Carrington on Iroquois 485 Carrington on Iroquois peace towns 208 Carroll , Gov. William , treaty signed by 125 Carroll , Gov. William , on Catawba in Cherokee war 44 Carroll , Gov. William on English conduct toward Cherokee 38 Cartier , Indians found on St Lawrence by 190 Cass, Lewis , reply to Schermerhorn’s proposals by 122 Casteel family , murder of 76 Castor Hill , treaty of (1852) 99 Cat , Cherokee name for 265 Cataracts in Cherokee lore 426 Catawba , Cherokee relations with 14 , 36 , 31 – 32 , 44 , 49 , 165 , 234 , 380 – 381 Catawba , feather ornament of 504 Catawba , myths of 452 Catawba name for Cherokee 16 , 183 Catawba , population of (1755) 39 Catawba , sketch of 498 Catawba , Spanish contact with 28 “ Catgut ” in Cherokee lore 425 Catlin on Tahchee 141 Cattle raising by Cherokee 82 , 122 , 137 , 166 , 213 – 214 Cauchi , De Soto’s visit to 29 Cavitts station , attack on 75 Cebollita valley , excavation of ruins around xiii Cedar , lore concerning 421 , 505 Censuses of Cherokee 34 , 103 , 112 , 125 , 150 , 156 – 157 Censuses of East Cherokee 167 – 168 , 172 , 176 , 179 , 180 Central America , memoir on numeral systems of xliv, xlv Ceremony , development of lxxviii–lxxix Chalaque , De Soto’s visit to 24 , 194 Chalaque , see also Tsa′lăgĭ′ ; Synonymy .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Wherever the chief dependence in forming inferences is upon the conjunctions observed in past experience, failures to agree with the usual order are slurred over, cases of successful confirmation are exaggerated.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Perhaps they cried out in protest and in warning.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

In the Nile there are many islands scattered about, some of which are entirely covered, others in part only, at the time of the rise of the waters.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

This is the reason comic observation instinctively proceeds to what is general.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

On the other hand, the real in a phenomenon (realitas phaenomenon) may very well be in mutual opposition, and, when united in the same subject, the one may completely or in part annihilate the effect or consequence of the other; as in the case of two moving forces in the same straight line drawing or impelling a point in opposite directions, or in the case of a pleasure counterbalancing a certain amount of pain.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

No one indeed can fail to be struck by the intensely popular character of Indian proverbial philosophy and by its freedom from the note of pedantry which is so conspicuous in Indian literature.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The poorest scholar in school or college often, in practical life, far outstrips the class leader or senior wrangler, simply because what little ability he has he employs for a definite object, while the other, depending upon his general ability and brilliant prospects, never concentrates his powers.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

One ship ran on to some shoals of an island called Bibalon, 432 because of the carelessness of its pilot, but by the help of God we freed it.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The key to the solution of such questions cannot, therefore, be found in our conceptions, or in pure thought, but must lie without us and for that reason is in many cases not to be discovered; and consequently a satisfactory explanation cannot be expected.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The least change of position broke them into fragments; there was much wild firing; it was impossible to manœuvre; and the courage of individuals proved a sorry substitute for order and cohesion.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Among the latter class who worked steadily and everlastingly from the time Cedar Rapids was a straggling little village to a city of its present size and who aided materially in its upbuilding is W. Fred Reiner, in the early fifties a stage driver out of this city, and for many years after a messenger of the American Express company.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Every fiber of his being cried out in protest, but resolutely he placed one foot ahead of the other, walking mechanically.
— from Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak

He was born in Peoria, Illinois, July 16, 1872, a son of William and Sarah Ann (Roberts) Kelly, the former a native of New York city, of Irish parentage, while the latter was born in Clay county, Missouri, and is of Scotch descent.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

“Betty, old gal—that there Tokely—as is the deepest ever I see—an’ the most careful of ’is precious skin—’as gorn off to fetch assistance.”
— from The Second Dandy Chater by Tom Gallon

The fireworks of the popular Tuscan custom, the stove, and the car of Indras perform the same miracle.
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

One house, one business, and one bed, And one most shocking death they had; One funeral came, one inquest pass’d, And now one grave they have at last.
— from Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Andrews

When we left, we came out in perfect order.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July