Ascending the hill, we soon emerged into a broad road leading into Columbia, between old fields of corn and cotton, and, entering the city, we found seemingly all its population, white and black, in the streets.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and sleepy-hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes; and, best of all, a great open fireplace, with quaint tiles all round it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

3. Classification of the Materials The selections in the materials on assimilation have been arranged under three heads: ( a ) biological aspects of assimilation; ( b ) the conflict and fusion of cultures; and ( c ) Americanization as a problem in assimilation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

My good friend Mr. Garrison kindly took charge of all the details necessary for the success of the trip, and he, as well as other friends, gave us a great number of letters of introduction to people in France and England, and made other arrangements for our comfort and convenience abroad.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The most wealthy of the Italian comedians in Paris was Pantaloon, the father of Coraline and Camille, and a well-known usurer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The walls, which are full of chinks and crannies, are of that immense thickness which proves that our ancestors built for their remote descendants, and not in our modern fashion; for we are beginning to build in the English style, that is, barely for one generation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

With such scraps tossing and rolling upward from the depths of his mind, the prisoner walked faster and faster, obstinately counting and counting; and the roar of the city changed to this extent—that it still rolled in like muffled drums, but with the wail of voices that he knew, in the swell that rose above them.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Breaking across this is a graceful line of figures, beginning on the left where the mass of rock is broken by the little flight of cupids, and continuing across the picture until it is brought up sharply by the light figure under the trees on the right.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

If we are sound on this capital point, everything else may take its chance; we shall at once see the folly of contending about ceremonies, about forms of Church-government, about, I will even say, sacraments or creeds.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

From overhead came a creaking, and a band of light appeared and widened, grew dazzling as a circular trapdoor opened on daylight.
— from World of the Drone by Robert Abernathy

It would be perfectly possible to gather a series of such cases from among the distinguished physicians of history, and as for our contemporaries and colleagues, at least one out of four of them will tell you that at some time he has suffered from an affection of this kind and has been much worried {332} about it, yet has recovered without incident and without any serious development.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

On the belts of the older men, loth to leave the fire-end, mothers and wives were hanging bags with thick farls of cake, and cheese, and the old Aora salve for swordcuts.
— from The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro

The common ancestral group of all are probably the Tripospyrida, which possess the three typical basal feet of Cortina and Cortiniscus , an odd caudal and two paired pectoral feet (Pl. 84 ).
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

The shattering fall of crest and crown and shield and cross and cope, The tearing of the gauds of time, the blight of prince and pope, The reign of ragged millions leagued to wrench a loaded debt, Loud with the many throated roar, the word went forward yet.
— from Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Work stoppages would result in a loss of production--a loss which could bring higher prices for our citizens and could also deny the necessities of life to the hard-pressed peoples of other lands.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Harry S. Truman

Two of the Bishops were sent to the Tower “for open contempt and contumacy”; and others seem to have been threatened.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

A family solicitor may be pardoned for occasionally calling a client a fool.
— from The Other World by Frank Frankfort Moore

All things in nature combine beauty with utility and while full of change are constant and enduring.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder