One of the Franklin judges, in sending a plea for the independence of his state to the Governor of North Carolina, expressed with unusual frankness the attitude of the Holston backwoodsmen towards the Indians.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

[Pg 3] life and standards as is not to be found in any group of Northern communities except perhaps New England.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

W. W. Hart 27¾ 10 27½ Barren grounds of northern Canada David T. Hanbury —27½ 11¾ 23 Barren grounds of northern Canada Caspar Whitney 27¼ 12½ 27 Barren grounds of northern Canada Earl of Lonsdale —27¼ 10⅝ 27½ Barren grounds of northern Canada Imperial Museum, Vienna 26⅞ 11 27 Barren grounds of northern Canada
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell

Apirsmert Juno, that with gret onrest Now cummyrris erd, sey and ayr, quod he, Sal turn hir mynd bettir ways, and with me 20 Fostir the Romanys, lordis of al erdly geir, And Latyne pepill kepe bath in payce and weir.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

Go out next Christmas Evening, and at midnight you will see the brightest of the fixed stars, Sirius, blazing in the southern sky—not however due south from you, but somewhat to the left of the Meridian line.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

In the hallway beyond a group of noblemen conversed excitedly with the women of the castle.
— from Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

That I, though among many others in this common concernment, interpose to your deliberations what my thoughts also are; your own judgment and the success thereof hath given me the confidence: which requests but this, that if I have prosperously, God so favouring me, defended the public cause of this commonwealth to foreigners, ye would not think the reason and ability, whereon ye trusted once (and repent not) your whole reputation to the world, either grown less by more maturity and longer study, or less available in English than in another tongue; but that if it sufficed some years past to convince and satisfy the unengaged of other nations in the justice of your doings, though then held paradoxal, it may as well suffice now against weaker opposition in matters, except here in England with a spirituality of men devoted to their temporal gain, of no controversy else among protestants.
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

The governor of North Carolina exchanged a glance and a nod with the governor of South Carolina.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson

“Billy, you lead these boys straight to Manassas Gap.” “Oh, no, Cousin Eliza!” exclaimed Dalton.
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler