Lincoln told Noah Brooks, one of his biographers, that he “remembered just how those men looked as we rode up the little hill where their camp was.
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure
As for Ruth, she had just hoped that Mary Lee would naturally want to stay with her.
— from Mary Lee the Red Cross Girl by Helen Hart
I just hope that Mr. Logan's coming here hasn't aroused suspicion."
— from The Space Pioneers by Carey Rockwell
It brings out sharply the real character of the typical Jesuit, his training, motives, limitations, aims."
— from A Traitor's Wooing by Headon Hill
Joseph Haydn, the merry little peasant. SEE Macrae, Opal Wheeler.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
"I remember just how those men looked," said Lincoln, "as we rode up the little hill where their camp was.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
It was evident Matilda was not in an amiable mood, and Jane having said the few words that brought her to Jevery House that morning, left her friend.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr
The Jews had the moral law written in their Scriptures, and recognised it as the will of Jehovah; and the Gentiles had its requirements, concerning their duty to each other, and their duty to worship, written upon their hearts.
— from Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation: A Book for the Times by James B. (James Barr) Walker
As the whole business of the Cabbalists and Masorites was the study of the true reading of the Hebrew Scriptures, to preserve and teach the proper text, they certainly are justly held the most likely to have invented, or at least Page 57 [57] received and preserved these vowel points, because the whole use of these points is to serve to this purpose.
— from Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield
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