"Thank you; I'll remind you of your promise when that joyful day comes, if it ever does," returned Jo, accepting the vague but magnificent offer as gratefully as she could.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[pg 394] On D r John Donne , late Deane of S. Paules , London .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers—sappers, I think, men in small round caps, dirty red jackets unbuttoned, and showing their blue shirts, dark trousers, and boots coming to the calf.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The Member for Arcis.] SYLVIE, cook for Madame Vauquer, the widow, on the rue Neuve-Saint-Genevieve, during the years 1819 and 1820, at the time when Jean-Joachim Goriot, Eugene de Rastignac, Jacques Collin, Horace Bianchon, the Poirets, Madame Couture, and Victorine Taillefer boarded there.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

As we approach the land, we can see distinctly the steep, folded slopes, covered with dense, rank jungle, brightened here and there by bold patches of lalang grass.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

On his [188] way by ship to Arnheim, he met a Swiss Christian, who took a great fancy to him, and in a conversation expressed a wish that the Lord might enlighten his eyes as he did Rabbi Jechiel Hirschlein who had been baptized at Zurich.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

John on the Suck 464 Dorsey , Dr G. A., models of altars prepared under direction of xlviii Dorsey , Dr G. A. on Quichua ceremony 453 Dorsey , Rev. J. O., on Siouan myths 432 , 433 , 440 , 448 , 449 , 452 , 456 , 459 , 463 , 465 , 474 Dorsey , Rev. J. O., study of fraternities and cults by xlviii Doublehead , expedition against Knoxville under 75 Doublehead , hostility of, in 1794 76 Doublehead , killing of 85 Doublehead , progressive leader 83 Doublehead , reservation for 85 Doublehead , treaty signed by (1806) 85 Doublehead , leader in war with Creeks (?) 384 Dougherty, Cornelius , establishment of, as trader among Cherokee 31 Dougherty, Cornelius , Wafford’s relationship with 238 Douglas , General, defeat of Texas Cherokee by 145 Dragging-canoe , chief of Chickamauga band 63 Dragging-canoe , enmity to Americans of 54 Dragon fly in Cherokee lore 431 Drake on Cherokee chiefs in Creek war 97 Drake on Cherokee government 107 Drake on Creek war 90 – 93 , 96 Drake on events preceding Removal 125 Drake on Fort Mims massacre 216 Drake on Georgia acts affecting Cherokee 117 , 221 Drake on imprisonment of missionaries 120 Drake on Indian civilized government 113 Drake on Chief McGillivray 210 Drake on Chief McIntosh 217 Drake on Ross arrest 123 Drake on scalping by whites 209 Drake on Shawano 495 Drake on Tecumtha 216 Drake on Wayne’s victory 213 Drake on Weatherford 217 Drake on Rev. S. A. Worcester 218 Drama , nature and development of lxxvii–lxxxi Dress , Cherokee, in 1800
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Yoganandaji and I boarded a small bus and, with a small boy as official cranker or battery substitute, started off over a smooth dirt road, just as the sun was setting on the horizon and squashing like an overripe tomato.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

un-ún 1 n k.o. shrub of waste spaces producing a dark red, juicy, edible, berry, about 1 cm.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The best known of his works are "Poetischer Hausschatz des Deutschen Volkes" (Leipzig, 1839); "Hausschatz Deutscher Prosa" ( ib. , 1855) and "Geschichte des Deutschen Romans," Jena 1843.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The carving on the church door, representing John writing the book of Revelation in the island of Patmos, is said to have been done by Puget.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

The great struggle for political power, the contest as to the source thereof—whether a fancied divine right ( jus divinum ) in any family, or in an individual by anointment of a priest; or the free voice of a free people governing themselves by framing a constitution, limiting power in the hands of rulers, who are only their agents—is now undergoing a severe test.
— from Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

And from this masterpiece of simple and direct emotion, which to me has always seemed the high-water mark of Hugo’s lyrical achievement as well as the most human of his utterances, one might pass on to masterpieces of another inspiration: to the luxurious and charming graces of Sara la Baigneuse ; to the superb crescendo and diminuendo of les Djinns ; to ‘Si vous n’avez rien à me dire,’ that daintiest of songlets; to the ringing rhymes and gallant spirit of the Pas d’Armes du Roi Jean : ‘Sus, ma bête, De façon Que je fête Ce grison!
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley

Latrobe, a Marylander, had been serving with D. R. Jones's small division.
— from Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

However, only 1,470 feet of salt was encountered in an oil test just east of Upheaval Dome (Robert J. Hite, U.S. Geol.
— from The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park by Stanley William Lohman

" "Then, my dear," replied Joan, making a very special ring of smoke, "you know more about him than I do.
— from Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton

Traduction, introduction et notes de Regis Jolivet.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

You did right, Jones.
— from One Touch of Nature: A Petite Drama, in One Act by Benjamin Webster

Daley, Rev. John New York, N. Y. Cath.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

By the whining note in the growls of the dogs, Reivers judged that the latter was the case this evening; and when he moved forward and stood listening outside the flap of the big tepee he knew that it was so.
— from The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen