The novel, long out of print, had in its day a phenomenal sale, for its realistic presentation of Indian and frontier life in the early days of settlement in the South, narrated in the tale with all the art of a practiced writer.
— from Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

Miss Penwick was one of the learned ladies of her generation, a fact which counted for less in the erudite day into which it was her misfortune to linger than in those of her far-away youth.
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

one and only one, For I am vocal through the universe, I' the workshop, manufactory, exchange And market-place, seaport and custom-house O' the frontier: listen if the echoes die— "Unfettered commerce!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The faint light in the east deepened and the sun flashed out.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The first troop was raised by Captain Franklin Kirby, from Lieutenant in the Fifth Foot; the second by Captain Samuel Birch, from Lieutenant in the Eleventh Dragoons; the third by Captain Martin Basil [1] , from Lieutenant in Eliott's [11] Light Horse; and the fourth by Captain Edward Lascelles, from Cornet in the Royal Horse Guards.
— from Historical record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons;—Lancers Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of its subsequent services to 1841. by Richard Cannon

Oh burn me with your beauty, then, Oh hurt me, tree and flower, Lest in the end death try to take Even this glistening hour.
— from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale

Jacob Farand, was the first lawyer in the Eastern District.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

The first relates to the family life in the early days of the [5] Massachusetts Commonwealth, the province that produced the first juvenile book.
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey