1842 Foundation of Royal Exchange laid—Medal connected therewith—Father Mathew’s Miracle—Christening of the Prince of Wales—King Edward VII.—Hard Work of the King of Prussia—The Earthquake in London—The Queen drinking “Grog”—Photography—Talbotype—Sale at Strawberry Hill—Presents to the King of Prussia 177 CHAPTER XVIII.
— from Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

One imagines the women, skilled like their men-folk in all manner of cunning workmanship, eagerly, generously ransacking their stores of purple and fine linen to decorate the Tabernacle, and spinning and embroidering with a desperately delighted sense of recovered refinements, which, as much perhaps as their fervour of religious enthusiasm, led them to bring their {150} gifts till restrained ‘from bringing.’
— from Jewish Portraits by Magnus, Katie, Lady

"Light Horse Harry" Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, and General Pickens brought reinforcements to Clarke and the combined force again besieged Augusta with renewed vigor May 15th, June 5th, 1781.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

Then, suddenly, the train pulled in, full of returned exiles longing to be back again in "dear old England."
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

For beauty is a flower of roots Embedded lower than our boots; Out of the primal strata springs, And shows for crown of useful things Arachne’s dream of prey to size Aspired; so she could nigh despise p. 83
— from A Reading of Life, with Other Poems by George Meredith

A party equally of order and of progress, in favor of retrenchment, economy, low taxes, sound currency, civil service reform, preservation of State and of federal honor, strict adherence to the Constitution, keeping federal and State governments within their separate and defined spheres of action, while encountering the hostility of extremists, would rally to its support enough of intelligence and patriotism to repress sectionalism and hate, and bring our lately discordant States into a fraternal union, based on fixed law, mutual toleration and respect, and exact justice.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

Henry Lee, father of Robert E. Lee and widely known as "Light Horse Harry" Lee, was selected as the individual to deliver the funeral oration of George Washington.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Among the vague traditions of certain Alaskan Indians is one of an immigration from Asia, under lead of “a creature resembling a man, with long, green hair and beard, whose lower part was a fish; or, rather, each leg a fish.”
— from Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

I recollect that at the close of the last session of Congress, I went over to Arlington, the estate formerly of Robert E. Lee, and I saw there the great National cemetery into which that beautiful place has been converted.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

The several things on which he did not speculate sufficiently were the life or health of Mr. Ross; the chance that some obnoxious neighborhood growth would affect the territory he had selected as residence territory; the fact that difficult money situations might reduce real estate values—in fact, bring about a flurry of real estate liquidation which would send prices crashing down and cause the failure of strong promoters, even such promoters for instance, as Mr. Samuel E. Ross.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser