Commanders and garrisons of the posts along our railroad are hereby instructed that they must hold their posts to the last minute, sure that the time gained is valuable and necessary to their comrades at the front.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

His systems of revenue having been generally opposed by the southern members, and the original opposition to the constitution having been particularly great in Virginia and North Carolina, the aspersions on his views, and on the views of the eastern members by whom his plans had been generally supported, were seldom controverted.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

What may not be accomplished by such a party of Christian laborers, going into villages and neighborhoods unreached by other means?
— from History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

The zealous Sister was not superstitious, nor could she be called nervous, but these strong noises frightened her, and she became pale as the rappings continued to grow in volume and number.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

I find no evidence that the mistletoe was ever thought to be the soul-box of the oak; none to prove that the tree at Aricia was an oak; nothing to show that the branch to be plucked was the branch of gold in Virgil, and nothing to indicate that Virgil's branch was the mistletoe.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

"My hair is bleached before its time with the slavery to which I have submitted with this goal in view, and now the prize is snatched from me just as it seemed within my reach.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The plain hooks I got in Vancouver are no use either when there apparently isn't a worm in the country."
— from Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

It was only as the Revolution gained momentum that the party grew in vigour and numbers.
— from The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by W. Stewart (William Stewart) Wallace