McPherson lay at Huntsville with about twenty-four thousand men, guarding those points of Tennessee which were regarded as most worth holding; Thomas, with over sixty thousand men of the Army of the Cumberland, was at Chattanooga; and Schofield, with about fourteen thousand men, was at Knoxville.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Do I have to work on Sundays, too?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Where one would have to write out sheaves of papers, here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There will be discovered many opportunities for public service which [87] neither the community as a whole, nor even a majority of its members, will at first recognise the importance of, or see their way to embrace, and which public services it would be useless, therefore, to expect the municipality to undertake; but those who have the welfare of society at heart will, in the free air of the city, be always able to experiment on their own responsibility, and thus quicken the public conscience and enlarge the public understanding.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

With heads hanging there were oxen standing by the bulwark—one, two, three ... eight beasts.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Why did he, the irreproachable one, have to wash off sins every day, strive for a cleansing every day, over and over every day?
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

I had always been diffident about horses, anyway, even those of the common altitudes, and I did not feel competent to hunt on a horse that went on stilts.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Ang panahun mubúni sa kaguul, Time heals the wounds of sorrow.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But let us first hear the whole of St. Paul's language: "If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

He saw her receive the magnificent Chief of Staff of the Army, resplendent in the uniform of his exalted rank: her, the wife of Sergeant Graham of "the 10th."
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

She had tried to talk about as her cousins expected her to, when once she got into the story; but its effect upon the visitors had not been just what either the Starkweather girls, or Helen herself, had expected.
— from The Girl from Sunset Ranch; Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe

A beggar in Naples who can show a foot which has all run into one horrible toe, with one shapeless nail on it, has a fortune—but such an exhibition as that would not provoke any notice in Constantinople.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

His temper was often sullen, and when in one of his gloomy moods he would spend the whole evening in his farm kitchen in morose silence.
— from More Tales of the Ridings by F. W. (Frederic William) Moorman

Therefore the glory of worship, reverence, and fear from all creatures, was due unto him; the worship, obedience, subjection, and service of angels were due unto him; the fear, honour, and glory of kings, and princes, and judges of the earth were due unto him; the obedience of the sun, moon, stars, clouds, and all vapours, were due unto him; all dragons, deeps, fire, hail, snow, mountains and hills, beasts, cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls, the service of them all, and their worship, were due unto him (Psa 148).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

I never saw her turn when once she had taken up a notion.’
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Select those that are free from blemish--make a syrup with half their weight of sugar, and preserve them in the same manner directed for apricots--green gages.
— from The Virginia Housewife Or Methodical Cook by Mary Randolph

If, Wilson being the same man, fortune had hemmed him in, and contracted his sphere of action,—or if, as author, he had devoted himself to works of solid learning, instead of to the airy pages of "Blackwood,"—the sprightly humor and broad hilarity that were in him would have bubbled out in these "Letters," and the "Noctes" and the "Recreations" would have been a song unsung.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various