But his efforts were so feeble that under the cover of night Ewell got back with only the loss of a few hundred prisoners, besides his killed and wounded.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Constitution of New England Guards.
— from The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace by Frederick Morse Cutler

Come on, now, everybody get busy, and we’ll try out the boat.”
— from Tom Fairfield in Camp; or, The Secret of the Old Mill by Allen Chapman

Of all the sections of the country only New England gave Adams a solid support.
— from Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown

The unrestricted selection of parish ministers by the people was no slight cause of New England growth, and was also a peculiar custom or institution not seen in the mother country, where appointment to parishes was chiefly in the hands of the aristocracy or the crown.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

Turning naturally to our own next of kin, a child of New England, going back from the teaching of his youth to his fathers and to their fathers, soon finds before him the Puritan.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

The County of Nottingham, England, gave similar demonstrations and in addition gave lectures to 125 mothers on the necessity of taking unusual precautions with reference to the health of babies at this period.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

To-day the city drags along a weary, inactive existence: soldiers from the barracks and long-robed priests from the church fill the streets, and are as numerous as the civil inhabitants, if not more so; convents and cloisters of nuns, either grass-grown ruins or else sombre grated and barred edifices, are to be met with at every step.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

Come on, now, everybody, get the honey!"
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

The time-honored paragraph in the catalogue on “necessary expenses” gave the annual maximum as two hundred dollars.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers