WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18, 1863. GOVERNOR O. P. MORTON, Indianapolis: What do you remember about the case of John O. Brown, convicted of mutinous conduct and sentenced to death?
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

He soon found that he had a creature of more courage and strength than a hare; for which, notwithstanding the keenness of his eyesight, he had mistaken a cat.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

He soon found that he had a creature of more courage and strength than a hare, for which, notwithstanding the keenness of his eyesight, he had mistaken a cat.
— from True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Hezekiah Butterworth

The poetical legend of the seven sleepers of Ephesus, who fled from the persecution of Decius to a cavern on Mount Celion, and slept there three hundred and sixty years, until God raised them up to confound a growing heresy against the immortality of the soul; and the still more beautiful story of the monk of Hildesheim, who, doubting how with God a thousand years could be as yesterday, listened to the melody of a bird in the greenwood during three minutes, and found that in those minutes three hundred years had flown away, are familiar to all our readers.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Thompson had informed the captain that he knew my father's address, and would take charge of my clothes, and send them home, but the captain would not allow him.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

Come on, my child, and see the end of all, And after say that Gardiner was my fall.
— from The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Years after a reporter called on Mr. Clemens and submitted the manuscript of the speech, which was as follows: Day after to-morrow I sail for England in a ship of this line, the Paris.
— from Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

[789] These carried out Moses' command and stoned the sinners, whose corpses then hung upon the gallows for a few minutes.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

With the charm of mountains, countryside, and sea there goes an invigorating atmosphere.
— from Lloyd George: The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot