Although most of the database consists of brief citations, MI also contains the complete text of selected stories from a long list of periodicals.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Davis's disappointment in not turning my Atlanta campaign into a "Moscow disaster." I have just finished a long letter to General Grant, and have explained to him that we are engaged in shifting our base from the Ogeeohee to the Savannah River, dismantling all the forts made by the enemy to bear upon the salt-water channels, transferring the heavy ordnance, etc., to Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head, and in remodeling the enemy's interior lines to suit our future plans and purposes.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For a long, long time she had not slept so well.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He kept the stone for himself, and calling the people around him he painted them, on face and breast, with the red wâ′dĭ, and whatever each person prayed for while the painting was being done—whether for hunting success, for working skill, or for a long life—that gift was his.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

They came rushing along, with bold, fearless faces, and loud laughs and jests, particularly aimed at all those who appeared to be above them in rank or station.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

There is a class of street-readers, whom I can never contemplate without affection—the poor gentry, who, not having wherewithal to buy or hire a book, filch a little learning at the open stalls—the owner, with his hard eye, casting envious looks at them all the while, and thinking when they will have done.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I wrote him an ingenuous letter of acknowledgment, crav'd his forbearance a little longer, which he allow'd me, and as soon as I was able, I paid the principal with interest, and many thanks; so that erratum was in some degree corrected.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The answer which suggests itself is that when there is just enough leisure between the impressions for the attention to adapt itself comfortably both to them and to the index (one second in W.'s experiments), it carries on the two processes at once; when the leisure is excessive, the attention, following its own laws of ripening, and being ready to note the index before the other impression comes, notes it then , since that is the moment of easiest action, whilst the impression, which comes a moment later, interferes with noting it again; and finally, that when the leisure is insufficient, the momentary impressions, being the more fixed data, are attended to first, and the index is fixed a little later on.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But I was not the witness of his grief; for I was lifeless, and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A quarter of an hour later we two slid out of the shell-hole, and crawling on our elbows we fell at last like bundles into our listening-post.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

Several large trees were felled and left lying across the path; and the cattle of the villagers, and the more rude hoofs of dragoon horses, had poached into black mud the verdant turf which Waverley had so much admired.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

What are you doing here?" "I'm feeling a little lonely," said the professor, smiling at Mrs. Carr-Boldt.
— from Mother: A Story by Kathleen Thompson Norris

The funeral had been early, and the distant visitors had been able to leave in good time, so that there was no need for a large luncheon party; and the lawyer and a cousin of Mr. Warrender's were the only strangers who shared that meal with the mother and son.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

More than one kind-hearted woman went up and kissed her, and when, at the close of the services, Mr. Tracy held her in his arms for a last look at her mother, their tears fell fast for the child, so unconscious of the meaning of what was passing around her.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Each rose from a little log cabin clinging to the side of a little hollow at the head of a little creek.
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

Hamlet brought both his wives to Denmark, and prepared for a long life of prosperity and peace.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 by Various

Our train does not go for a long, long while.'
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

These were valiant and haughty cavaliers of the old chivalrous lineages, who had inherited a deadly hatred to the Christians from a long line of warrior ancestors, and to whom the idea was worse than death that Granada—illustrious Granada, for ages the seat of Moorish grandeur and delight—should become the abode of unbelievers.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving