By deed of cession of February 25, 1790, Tennessee ceased to be a part of North Carolina and was organized under federal laws as “The Territory of the United States south of the Ohio river,” preliminary to taking full rank as a state six years later.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But when it became usual to insert the undertaking to warrant in a deed or charter of feoffment, it lost something of its former isolation as a duty standing by itself, and admitted of being [378] generalized.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I lifted Hareton in my arms, and walked off to the kitchen with him, leaving the door of communication open, for I was curious to watch how they would settle their disagreement.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

It was not a mere drift over her surface of life,—drift of cavalry and foot soldiers, richly caparisoned elephants, white tents and canopies, strings of patient camels bearing the loads of royalty, bands of kettle-drums and flutes, marble domes of mosques, palaces and tombs, like the bubbles of the foaming wine of extravagance; stories of treachery and loyal devotion, of changes of fortune, of dramatic surprises of fate.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

And this victory he won, not by dint of clamour, or falseness, or obstrusive self-assertion, but by the force of his own intellectual powers, his unsullied integrity, his admirable character.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

They are often truer and safer guides to classification than are the designs of centre or field.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

On the morning of the 7th the pursuit was renewed, the cavalry, except one division, and the 5th corps moving by Prince Edward's Court House; the 6th corps, General Ord's command, and one division of cavalry, on Farmville; and the 2d corps by the High Bridge Road.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

In this condition of affairs the bill under consideration directs the Secretary of the Treasury "to credit to each State and Territory of the United States and the District of Columbia a sum equal to all collections, by set-off or otherwise, made from said States and Territories and the District of Columbia, or from any of the citizens or inhabitants thereof, or other persons, under the act of Congress approved August 5, 1861, and the amendatory acts thereto."
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

The one traces the development of complex organs from simple rudiments; the other follows the building up of complex conceptions out of simpler constituents of thought.
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

—Wind was cold, so I prudently remained in my cabin all day, only creeping out for dinner.
— from The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates by Arthur Conan Doyle

A single instance of this kind, in a writer of common accuracy, might be carried, in charity, to the debit of chance, or forgetfulness; but the catalogue, presented by the reviewers, is truly overpowering.
— from Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2) by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent

And it shall be competent for the President to assign to one of the said agents, in addition to his proper duties, the duties of superintendent for such district of country, or for such tribes, as the President may think fit.
— from Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) by Tyrone Power

And perhaps because of the unusual experience of the afternoon, he did not listen, as he was rather apt to do on common occasions, for the rest of the congregation, this for Deacon Scott, that for Mr Wainwright, the other for some one else, for whom it seemed a suitable portion; he listened for himself, with his father all the while in his mind.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

[Leo X. allowed the festival of this saint to be celebrated in the diocese of Cortona on Feb. 22nd.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

No light lament of pity mixed with gladness, But with true tears, poured from the soul of sadness, Over the princes dead and their bereavèd home Say we, above these brethren dead, On citizen, on foreign foe, Brave was their rush, and stern their blow— Now, lowly are they laid !
— from Four Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus

To be drawn or coaxed out far enough to admit of an opponent's going through the centre shows woful ignorance in any guard.
— from American Football by Walter Camp