Colonel Comstock, who will take this, can spend a day with you, and fill up many little gaps of information not given in any of my letters.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Regarded in time, it is the continuous evolution of a being ever growing older; it never goes backwards and never repeats anything.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

They had gone out in neighbourhood groups, members of one tribe; but, returning, had become badly mixed.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

The kiss of peace, as Grancolas observes, is not given, because formerly at the dawn of easter-sunday, soon after the mass of easter-eve, the faithful used to assemble in the church "and kissing one another with mutual charity to say, Surrexit Dominus "; (the Lord is risen) Ordo Rom. ab Hittorpio ed.
— from The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs

The general principle which these cases illustrate is that when flowers have always been fertilised by the wind, they never have brilliant corollas; when they acquire the habit of impregnating their kind by the intervention of insects, they almost always acquire at the same time alluring colours, perfumes, and honey; and when they have once been so impregnated, and then revert once more to wind-fertilisation, or become self-fertilisers, they generally retain some symptoms of their earlier habits, in the presence of dwarfed and useless petals, sometimes green, or if not green at least devoid of their former attractive colouring.
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen

Maretzek was seventy-six years of age at the time of his death, and he had grown old, if not gracefully, at least good-naturedly.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

I have no doubt but that the literature of Norway contains frequent references to it of olden date, but the earliest notice of it in that country which I have been able to procure is one contained in A Narrative of the North-East Frosty Seas , declared by the Duke of Mosconia his ambassadors to a learned gentlemen of Italy, named Galeatius Butrigarius, as follows [254] :— “The lake called Mos, and the Island of Hoffusen in myddest thereof is in the degree 45.30 and 61.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

It is very easy to say that governments are good, or if not good, ought to be made so.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He had no longer the germs of influence nor great prospects: nor yet such a fortune as justified him in an appeal to one of the new and populous boroughs.
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman