Has he any family or relatives?" "No, not so far as any one knows.
— from The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester
There [Pg 30] are no figures of relative numbers, no times, no description of the terrain, no statement of casualties.
— from German Influence on British Cavalry by Erskine Childers
The new Federalism or rather new Nationalism is not in any way inimical to democracy.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
With a cry which did not sound like his own voice he walked to a mirror which was hanging on the wall and then recoiled with a shudder, for the face which looked from the glass was not his own handsome countenance, but the old, grey-bearded, wrinkled face of Roversmire, now no longer calm and placid but convulsed with terror and anguish.
— from The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy by Fergus Hume
North of room 59 remains of the foundations of rooms (not numbered on the plan) were found, and it may be possible that at this point there was a small open space, without a kiva; if so, it would have been exceptional in Cliff Palace.
— from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes
[FN] The Indian name of Verdrietig Hoek, or Tedious Point, is of record Newas-ink in the De Hart Patent, and in several other forms of record—Navish, Navoash-ink, Naurasonk, Navisonk, Newasons, etc., and Neiak takes the forms of Narratsch, Narrich, Narrock, Nyack, etc. Verdrietig Hoek, the northeastern promontory of Hook Mountain, is a rocky precipitous bluff forming the angle of the range.
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber
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