The guard-mountings and parades, as well as the greater reviews, became the daily resorts of the ladies, to hear the music of our excellent bands; schools were opened, and the churches every Sunday were well filled with most devout and respectful congregations; stores were reopened, and markets for provisions, meat, wood, etc., were established, so that each family, regardless of race, color, or opinion, could procure all the necessaries and even luxuries of life, provided they had money.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A long and inconclusive debate occupied the Chamber during the spring of 1919, as to whether inhabitants of the devastated area receiving compensation should be compelled to expend it in restoring the identical property, or whether they should be free to use it as they like.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

And promptly as the United States mail could deliver and return, came Singletree, Darnley & Co.’s check for five thousand dollars.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

A medida que el tren se tragaba las leguas, [4] veíamos desfilar a Rengo, con sus viñedos, a San Fernando de estación oscura y triste, a Chimbarongo, Curicó, Lontué, cubierto igualmente de viñas, Talca, Linares.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Nag coiled himself up, raised his head, and looked into the bathroom in the dark, and Rikki could see his eyes glitter.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

A Latin inscription in honour of the painter and his paintings appeared over the tribune at the end of St. George's Hall:—' Antonius Verrio Neapolitanus non ignobili stirpe natus, ad honorem Dei, Augustissimi Regis Caroli Secundi et
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

he earth was shivering and weaving as he laid her down; a rock crashed sharply in the distance.
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

Joining at the foot of the terrace in one foaming torrent the waters of the Basin plunge in one fall of two hundred feet, thence pass under a snow tunnel and down a rocky chute swept clean by the flood to augment the already raging waters of the Stehekin.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

[78] "That's Ol' Dave, all righ'," cried Smitty.
— from Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it by Clarence Edward Mulford

His air, though deliberate and reflective, could scarcely be called prompt and acute.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

HUBBARD, LEO R. Drycleaning and redyeing course. SEE Hubbard, Clarence Custer.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

In the dining-room the shaded lamp burned dimly, and Regina could see the outline of Hannah's form on the sofa, and knew from the continual turning first on one side, then on the other, that the old woman was awake, though no sound escaped her.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

ed., 2 vols. (1915), a sympathetic treatment of deism and rationalism; C. S. Devas, The Key to the World's Progress (1906), suggestive criticism of the thought of the eighteenth century from the standpoint of a well- informed Roman Catholic.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Nag coiled himself up, raised his head, and looked into the bath-room in the dark, and Rikki could see his eyes glitter.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling