On the 19th of April eighteen men, who had escaped from the enemy, rejoined the regiment.
— from Historical Record of the Thirteenth Regiment of Light Dragoons Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1715, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1842 by Richard Cannon

The Major is firmly grasping a pole of Liberty in his right hand, and is holding forth in front of the hustings erected for the election, round which are gathered numerous voters and a crowd of others, who are being addressed from the platform.
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

Why is it that many children who have been reared in an atmosphere of sanctity, children who have enjoyed from their earliest recollection moral and spiritual administration, have fallen into vice and depravity?
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

These errors of description amongst medical writers have of course occasioned much obscurity and perplexity in the productions of travellers and historians, who have generally confounded all these diseases with the Hebrew leprosy, or the leprosy which for so long a period desolated the fairest portions of Europe, where every country was crowded with hospitals established for the exclusive relief of the malady.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Master Headley, a very peaceful citizen in his composition in spite of his trade, was much inclined to forbid Stephen from the experiment, but he refrained, ashamed and unwilling to daunt a high spirit; and half the household, eager for the excitement, rushed to the kitchen in quest of apples, and brought out all the women to behold, and add a clamour of remonstrance.
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[Pg 243] X CREDIT FOR QUALITY IN SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION From the "Educational Review," March, 1909, and the "Western Journal of Education" (now the "American Schoolmaster"), May, 1909 In the Educational Review for May, 1908, Mr. W. B. Secor had an article under the caption, "Credit for Quality in the Secondary School.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd