Detail for Court martial Segt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SYN: Untrue, erroneous, fallacious, sophistical, spurious, deceptive, fabrication, counterfeit, mendacious, sham, mock, bogus, unfaithful, fib, falsity, fiction, dishonorable, faithless.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

(I am not sure but the day for conventional monuments, statues, memorials, &c., has pass'd away—and that they are henceforth superfluous and vulgar.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

To excuse my never coming down From Cambridge; Mary smiled and ask’d Were Kant and Goethe yet outgrown?
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

For, after all, the possibilities were double-faced, and her bold departure from custom might simply mean that what she had to say was so dreadful that it needed all the tenderest mitigation of circumstance.
— from Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton

Tugucati Octo cento millia dualapancati Nouecento millia Sambilancati Diece fiate cento millia Sainta.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Here she put down five cents more; she never bet higher than this on a “row.”
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Oxen have from a very early time been employed for purposes of agriculture; and we find among the names derived from cattle many suggesting that they must have been put to this use at the time when those names arose.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

I don't care a damn for Colonel Mayor Sampson.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey

A letter has just come down from Colonel Merewether saying that all is going on well at Senafe.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend Captain Marryat "Snarleyyow" Chapter One.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

The sights and smells of the water-front are here, too, ships and stevedores unloading them, sailors lounging before dingy drinking-places, and across the cobble-stones is a ferry-house, with "truck" wagons on the way back to Long Island waiting for the gates to open, the unmistakable country mud, so different from city mire, still sticking in cakes to the spokes, notwithstanding the night spent in town.
— from New York Sketches by Jesse Lynch Williams