The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly be-drifted hither and hither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

General Halleck, who had so long been in Washington as the chief of staff, had been sent on the 21st of April to Richmond, to command the armies of the Potomac and James, in place of General Grant, who had transferred his headquarters to the national capital, and he (General Halleck) was therefore in supreme command in Virginia, while my command over North Carolina had never been revoked or modified.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The Jew was in the hold: the French gentleman was lying on the deck so ill, that I could observe nothing concerning him, except the affectionate attentions of his servant to him.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Al′kaloid, a term applied to a class of nitrogenous compounds having basic properties, found in living plants, usually in combination with organic acids.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

What soul compact of nothingness Could hear so fierce a trumpet blown?
— from The Lord of Misrule, and Other Poems by Alfred Noyes

48 Even the machine cancellation, doubtless used in some large centre of naval concentration, has had bars (or type turned base upwards) in lieu of the lettering and date ( Fig. 49).
— from The Postage Stamp in War by Frederick John Melville

There is a blessing in a day like this, When sky and earth are talking busily; The clouds give back the riches they received, And for their graceful shapes return they fulness; While in the inmost shrine, the life of life, The soul within the soul, the consciousness Whom I can only name , counting her wealth, Still makes it more, still fills the golden bowl Which never shall be broken, strengthens still The silver cord which binds the whole to Heaven.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

This was the stronghold of Ningyuen, which a Chinese officer named Chungwan had reinforced with a small party, and which resolutely resisted all assaults.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese by Charles Morris

Even a change of name cannot help him.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow

By the famous ice-pail experiment he showed that, when a charged body is inserted in a closed or nearly closed hollow conductor, an equal amount of the same kind of electricity appeared on the outside of the hollow conductor, while an equal amount of the opposite kind appeared on the interior surface of the conductor.
— from Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett

No mind, which had not entirely lost all power of enjoying the charms of nature, could have been dead to the enchanting scenes which the banks of the lovely Guadalaxara now presented in ever-varying succession.
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 3 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

The coasts of New Caledonia, however, were beset with reefs and shoals, so that it was practically impossible for a sailing ship like the Resolution to make any close survey without running risks of being lost altogether.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston