[Pg i] RUSSIAN EXPLORATIONS, 1725-1743. VITUS BERING: THE DISCOVERER OF BERING STRAIT.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Dieskaw , defeat of, by Sir William Johnson 203 Dillard, J. H. , arbitrator between East Cherokee and Thomas’s creditors 174 Disease , myths and lore concerning 250 – 252 , 281 , 308 , 435 – 436 , 502 Diskwa′ʻnĭ , see Blythe, James .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The Duke of Buckingham said of the King:— “The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his thoughts.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

17 The Duke of Bridgewater started a scheme for the improvement of London and Westminster, and the Duke of Chandos another.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

It was a man in an old-fashioned dress of black serge and having the aspect of a steward or principal domestic in the household of a nobleman or great English landholder.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Niobe comes, surrounded with a crowd of attendants, conspicuous for the 199 VI. 146-166 gold interwoven in her Phrygian garments, and beautiful, so far as anger will allow; and tossing her hair, hanging down on both shoulders, with her graceful head, she stands still; and as she loftily casts around her haughty eyes, she says, “What madness is this to prefer the inhabitants of Heaven, that you have only heard of, to those who are seen?
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The woman—Madame Duclos—wore a dress of brown serge.
— from The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

He could say certainly no more than that when all their well-laid plan was ready to be executed, they rose against the soldiers which guarded them with such suddenness and brave violence that they succeeded in seizing and in holding the Citadel; which gave no chance for grave uneasiness, for the officers of the force thus for a moment driven off thought that because of their retiring within so narrow a place they speedily must surrender for dread of being starved there; and it was held to be but a sign of their still greater simplicity—since thus would there be more hungry mouths to fill—that they carried their women and children with them into the stronghold where they lay besieged.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

"I'm glad to have at least one chance to wear this dress," observed Bobby, smoothing down the folds of her rose-colored frock with satisfaction.
— from Betty Gordon at Boarding School; Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Alice B. Emerson

In danger of being seized by a savage dog, which sprang at me when I fell into the hen-coop; in danger of being apprehended by the tenants of the lot; in danger of being shot or wounded by any one who might have attempted to stop me, a runaway slave; and in danger on the other hand of being overtaken and getting in conflict with my adversary.
— from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself by Henry Bibb

Jack's limp form was rolled up in a dirty old blanket so as to look like some kind of a bundle.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code by John Henry Goldfrap

An anomaly, when ascertained to be such, is easily disposed of; but sometimes it is very difficult to decide whether a construction is anomalous or not.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

The livid sky threw a wan leaden light on the village which was now transformed into a lake of mud pricked by needles of water that dotted the puddles with drops of bright silver.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Passing on through wide-spreading prairies, we cross the mighty stream of the Mississippi to a slightly elevated district of broad savannahs, till we reach a treeless region bordering the very foot of the Rocky Mountains.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston