Next winter cut these back to an outer eye, leaving six or nine inches of each branch from the stem.
— from The Book of Pears and Plums; With Chapters on Cherries and Mulberries by Edward Bartrum

They stood in front of him as still as sculptors' models, but fingers and toes kept exchanging little signals of nervous distress.
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

At the close of the convention this amusing card was sent to the press: "All presidents of State delegations represented in the National W. C. T. U. desire to explain, in refutation of a statement in the Post of October 31, that, so far from 'capturing the convention,' Miss Susan B. Anthony made no effort to influence their delegations in public or in private, and is not, nor ever has been, a member of the W. C. T. U., either local, State or national, hence has had no part in its deliberations."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Lying across the foot of Po-Po's nuptial couch was a smaller one made of Koar-wood; a thin, strong cord, twisted from the fibres of the husk of the cocoa-nut, and woven into an exceedingly light sort of network, forming its elastic body.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville

THE MAPS OF YUCATAN, 1501-1800 While I was at work on the main body of this book my attention was drawn to the question of cartography by Dr. Edward Luther Stevenson of New York.
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means

All the morning I was fearfully nervous, starting at every little sound or noise.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

Resolved, That it is to us a matter of small importance whether the General Synod recognizes us as an Evangelical Lutheran Synod or not, since our orthodoxy and our existence as a Lutheran body in no wise depends on their judgment.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

[in Norwich] 2 Wells, William, Theologiæ Baccalaureus 5 Throkmorton, Bassingbourne 2 1614 Cropp, John, Physician and Surgeon 4 Bird, Henry 1 1615 Ross, Richard, Gent., late Sheriff of Norwich 1 1614 Barbar, Gabriel, Gent., in the name of the Society of Virginia 11 1616/7 Nutting, Edward, late Sheriff of Norwich 5 1616/7 Batho, William, B.T. 1 1617 Anguish, John, Gent., and Citizen 7 1617 Anguish, Edmund, Gent.
— from Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen