They also confidently rely upon defections in the army and navy.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

He would certainly run us down in the next half-mile.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod.
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Every physician can recall unnecessary disturbances in the office because a mother has allowed a child to acquire a wrong mental attitude toward the family physician.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

So the Evil's triumph sendeth, with a terror and a chill, Under continent to continent, the sense of coming ill, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels his sympathies with God In hot tear-drops ebbing earthward, to be drunk up by the sod, 15 Till a corpse crawls round unburied, delving in the nobler clod.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell