It is chiefly notable from the fact that the celebrated chief John Ross derives his Indian name, Gu′wisguwĭ′, from this bird, the name being perpetuated in Cooweescoowee district of the Cherokee Nation in the West.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The delay, however, is not great, and everything seems generally arranging itself for your return very comfortably.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

“The dinner here is not good, but at least you will see him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This is useful in shifting cargo, etc., where the distance hoisted in not great.
— from The Use of Ropes and Tackle by W. A. (William Armour) Pearl

The exact date, however, is not given.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

If tomorrow, by the third hour of the day, he is not given up to us safe and sound, the hostages we have taken, and more than eighty others, will be shot within sight of the two camps."
— from The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure by Gustave Aimard

Now, however, both in England and America, it is well settled that it makes no difference whether the party be a regular practitioner or not; if he, bona fide and honestly exercising his best skill to cure a patient, performs an operation or administers a medicine which causes the patient’s death he is not guilty of manslaughter.
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

And to Vishnu he said: ‘Be thou the granter and bestower of Mooktee in this world, and that, which in my sight is good, shall appear the same in thine; and whosoever shall admit any doubts herein is no Gyanee ( i.e. , learned in the truths of divinity).
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

"Well," said she, "Luella an' Freeman Henry come over here this very day, an' Freeman Henry's possessed you should sell him the Flat-Iron Lot." "Wants the Flat-Iron Lot, does he?" inquired Nicholas grimly.
— from Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown

A school can ameliorate all this by one course which requires much reading of the Bible and Shakespeare, by furnishing in the school library abundant access to the best current prose and verse of the day which will directly appeal to the young reader, since each decade has its new gods in letters, and by selecting teachers for the professional courses who have shown that they can write at least well enough to be paid by newspapers and magazines for their work.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

This decision, however, is not given without qualifications and reservations; nor is there perfect unanimity regarding it.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain