The business continued until the old corner building was taken down, about the year 184-, and replaced by the fine stone edifice erected by Mr. George E. Morton on the site.
— from History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins

By counting the guns every man on the ships can tell what sort of a dignitary has arrived."
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

Master Richard could not understand what the matter was, as he looked at the press that gathered every moment on the stairs and in the court.
— from The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson

An Arabic document quoted by Casiri, and dating from the reign [68] of Henry the First of Castile, specifies as belonging to an aristocratic lady of that time, “Egyptian shirts of silk and linen, embroidered shirts, Persian shirts with silk embroidery, Murcian gold necklaces, ear-pendants of the same metal, set with gems; finger-rings and bracelets, waist-belts of skins, embroidered with silk and precious stones; cloaks of cloth of gold, embroidered mantles of the same, coverings for the head, and kerchiefs.”
— from The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leonard Williams

On the vote of the three millions of dollars, which was taken at about eight o'clock in the evening, forty-eight votes were given, every member of the Senate being in his place and answering to his name.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

All that the latter really had done was to place Norfolk and the French sympathisers under a cloud, and make Gardiner entirely master of the situation whilst he carried out the King’s own policy.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

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— from Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

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— from Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Yet, savages as they were, they offered us, at present at least, no violence, while one who had fought in the van ever since they had entered the saloon came forward and, standing before Mary and me, said in good English (many of the Shawnees and Doegs having learnt our language when they dwelt in peace with the colonists, and retained it and taught it to their descendants): "White women--children of those who drove us forth from them when we would have remained their friends, children of those who stole our lands under the guise of what they called fair barter and traffic--the fortune of the night's fight has gone against you and you are in our power."
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

his father, 1856; m. 1857, Frances, dau. of John Peter Grant, Esq. Member of the Supreme Council of Calcutta; has issue.
— from The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington Titled, Untitled, Professional, & Commercial by Anonymous