Another time about the fourth Watch, early in the morning he fell upon several Casics , Noblemen and other Indians , who lookt upon themselves to be safe enough, (for they had their faith and security given, that none of them should receive any damage or injury) relying upon this, they left the Mountains their lurking places, without any suspition or fear, and returned to their Cities, but he seized on them all, and commanding them to extend their hands on the ground, cut them off with his own Sword, saying, that he punished them after this maner, because they would not inform him what Lord it was, that succeeded in that Kingdom.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

the S. W. Mountains which appear to be about 15 Miles from us Still Continue to become lower, they are Covered with Snow at present nearly to their bases.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Some of the senators and representatives declined to present the petitions sent from their own districts; others offered them merely as petitions for "universal suffrage," carefully omitting the word "woman" and trusting that it would be inferred they meant suffrage for the negro men.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The remaining virtues that are clearly and exclusively social, will be easily seen to have no independent maxims; the conduct in which they are respectively realised being merely the fulfilment, under special conditions, of the rules already discussed.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at noon when we were to go through them, for then a whole hundred of them followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

These details are identical with those prescribed to-day excepting that she may wear lustreless silks as well as wool, the duration of mourning may be shorter, and she need never wear her veil over her face except at the funeral unless she chooses.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

For under such conditions, the school becomes itself a form of social life, a miniature community and one in close interaction with other modes of associated experience beyond school walls.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

A spark falling upon some combustibles led to the invention of gunpowder.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Carrie went straight forward until she crossed the river, and then turned into Fifth Avenue.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Rees, Citizen Scout, has this day presented to me a certificate, given him by Major Mock, Fourth U. S. Cavalry, for thirty-nine days' service as scout and guide, at $5 per day, amounting to one hundred and ninety-five dollars.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

It was upon that day that Captain Moses Harris, First U. S. Cavalry, relieved the civilian Superintendent of his duties, and soldiers supplanted the so-called assistant Superintendents as a Park police.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

As I have so often said before, there is only one way to properly understand the feelings under such conditions, and that is, "put yourself in his place."
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

May, June Privet ( Ligustrum ovalifolium ) Green 15 ft. unless sheared Cuttings Rose of Sharon ( Hibiscus Syriacus ) White, Pink to Purple Up to 18 ft. August to October Snowball, Japanese ( Viburnum tomentosum ) White 8 to 10
— from Gardening for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

With her begins a new ideal of womanhood; from her proceeds a type unknown in fact and fiction until she came.
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley