Under cover of night our right wing was withdrawn to the north side of the river, Lee being completely deceived by Wilson's feint.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

RUSHER, one who strewed the floor with rushes. RUSSET, homespun cloth of neutral or reddish-brown colour.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Considering the relative ages of the two ladies, the aunt's chance, in the ordinary course of nature, of receiving the ten thousand pounds, was thus rendered doubtful in the extreme; and Madame Fosco resented her brother's treatment of her as unjustly as usual in such cases, by refusing to see her niece, and declining to believe that Miss Fairlie's intercession had ever been exerted to restore her name to Mr. Fairlie's will.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Perhaps it may not be necessary to boast on this subject of my own impartial indifference; but I must think that the Greeks were strongly supported by the prohibition of the council of Chalcedon, against adding any article whatsoever to the creed of Nice, or rather of Constantinople.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

No more can the twigs of circumstances, or the boughs of environment, or the grasses of accident that make the tiny waves of our individual experiences,—or even the great rocks and cliffs of national or racial import,—such as wars, and pestilence, and famine,—finally check or stay the river of life in its onward flow toward the sea of its final and infinite meaning.'” He went again to the window, and stood looking out into the night as though listening to the voices.
— from The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

As in the case of numerous other railroads, the financial breakdown of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was primarily due to a bad or reckless financial policy, for there was nothing inherently insecure in the railroad property itself.
— from The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States by John Moody

So Bluff hurried away around the bend, to amuse himself to his heart's content opening native oysters right where they grew, something he had looked forward to doing with almost childish delight.
— from The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf; Or, Rescuing the Lost Balloonists by Quincy Allen

This entire ridge consists of no other rock than trap traversing the Triassic formation in a huge vertical dike.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

I asked him why she stayed here, whereat he shook his head and replied, he supposed because of the “curse,” since he could conceive of no other reason.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

You can imagine it better than I can depict it, merely from my telling you that he returned claiming his forfeited rights; that if he went away evil, he came back worse; and that if he was poor and without credit before going to the war, now he could count on no other resources than his desperation, his lance and a half dozen adventurers as profligate and impious as their chieftain.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

C o nsign o reggiáre, to command with others, or gouerne in fellowship.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Much of this, in {2} spite of alteration and excision, is based on divine and heroic myths, and it also contains occasional notices of ritual.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch