On the 18th of January I ordered Canby, in command at New Orleans, to move against Mobile, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, for the purpose of destroying roads, machine shops, etc.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
You strike my people; and your disorder’d rabble Make servants of their betters.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
‘Hold your nonsense, Mr Quilp, do,’ returned Miss Sally, with a grim smile.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Duranti sa gúbat didtu ra mi sa bukiran, We stayed in the mountains for the duration of the war.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
‘Dear me, I was thinking of something else for the moment, I declare,’ replied Miss Squeers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
A very nutritious dish and a most ingenious device, requiring much skill.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
And Derek remained motionless, staring at the Bridal Wreath, till the big man came down again and, retiring into a far corner, sat sipping at his own cup.
— from The Freelands by John Galsworthy
Further is to be found in the Yellow Book the evidence how, from the start of this dark rebellion, Mr. Seward, the master spirit of the Administration, dealt death blows to all energetic, unyielding prosecution of the war for crushing the rebellion, and that he was double-dealing in all his public actions.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
E. de Rough, Memoire sur la statuette naophore du musee Gregorian, au Vatican.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers
"You have brought Asmodeus into Lichfield," Colonel Musgrave one day rebuked Miss Stapylton, as they sat in the garden.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
a deep, rich, moist soil along the borders of streams and swamps.
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis
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