AT APPOMATTOX WHERE GENERAL LEE'S SURRENDER TOOK PLACE FAC-SIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL TERMS OF LEE'S SURRENDER AS WRITTEN BY GENERAL GRANT MAP OF THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY OF MOBILE MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR-1861 TO 1865 CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The convention of Massachusetts met on the same day that the Connecticut convention adjourned.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand

Grand National Assembly powers that devolve to the Council of State between assembly sessions, or in the event of exceptional circumstances that prevent the assembly from acting, include the authority to appoint and recall members of the Council of Ministers, members of the Supreme Court, and the prosecutor general.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

I, John Jorrocks, of Great Coram Street, in the County of Middlesex, Member of the Surrey Hunt, in England, and Colonel of the Army when I'm in France, having been grossly insulted by Charles Adolphe Eugene of No. 15 bis, Rue Poupée, confectioner, this day repaired to Passy, with the intention of sarving him out with my fists; but, neither he nor any one for him having come to the scratch, I, John Jorrocks, do hereby proclaim the said Charles Adolphe Eugene to be a shabby fellow and no soldier, and totally unworthy the notice of a fox-hunter and a gentleman sportsman.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

The claims which things make are corrupters of manhood, mortgages on the soul, and a drag anchor on our progress towards the empyrean.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Lord Theign passed with the young man on this a couple of mute minutes of the same order as those he had passed with Lady Grace in the same connection; their eyes dealt deeply with their eyes—but to the effect of his lordship’s accepting the gift, which after another minute he had slipped into his breast-pocket.
— from The Outcry by Henry James

The prolific colonies of monks multiplied on the sands of Libya, upon the rocks of the Thebaid, and in the cities of the Nile.
— from History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) by A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport

The effect of the Cathedral on my mind, on that second visit, was exactly what it was at first, and what it remains after many visits.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

Later, by means of the ultra-microscope their discrete particles have actually been made visible, each of them consisting of many molecules of the suspended [48] substance.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin

When this horrid rebellion assumed its gigantic proportions, the loyal men of the North watched with anxiety the course of many men of the South, whom we had delighted to honor with the highest positions of trust and power.
— from Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by William Gannaway Brownlow