Col. Benjamin on threatened secession of progressives (about 1800) 83 Hawkins , Col. Benjamin on use of parched corn 481 Hawkins , Col. Benjamin on Yuchi 499 Hawkins , Col. Benjamin , treaty concluded by 61 Hawkins , Col. Benjamin , visit to Cherokee by 55 Haywood, John , on Cherokee migrations and predecessors 21 – 22 Haywood, John on Cherokee heroism 394 – 395 Haywood, John on Cherokee myths 20 , 229 , 440 , 441 , 445 , 469 , 477 – 478 Haywood, John on Cherokee relations with Chickasaw 390 Haywood, John on Cherokee relations with Creeks 383 , 384 Haywood, John on Cherokee relations with Tuscarora 379 Haywood, John on conflicts with Cherokee 76 Haywood, John on destruction of Chickamauga towns 55 , 79 Haywood, John on first trader among Cherokee 31 Haywood, John on introduction of guns among Cherokee 32 , 213 Haywood, John on killing of Scott party and Bowl migration 77 , 100 – 101 Haywood, John on Nancy Ward 204 Haywood, John on Natchez among Cherokee 388 Haywood, John on office of “pretty woman” 490 Haywood, John on Sevier and Campbell’s expedition (1780)
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The troopers, who rode with the beautiful English seat, looked brown as berries from their bloodless campaign among the farms of Westchester, and the music of their sabres against the stirrups, and the jingle of spurs and carbines was delightful to me.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

This is the Tribunal Extraordinaire; which, in few months, getting into most lively action, shall be entitled Tribunal Revolutionnaire, as indeed it from the very first has entitled itself: with a Herman or a Dumas for Judge President, with a Fouquier-Tinville for Attorney-General, and a Jury of such as Citizen Leroi, who has surnamed himself Dix-Aout, 'Leroi August-Tenth,' it will become the wonder of the world.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Among the influences that have helped to shape my own creed and inspire my own life, have been the beautiful lives and noble characters of Japanese officers, students and common people who were around and before me.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But—would your worship believe it?—my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Undoubtedly during all this time there were not lacking generous and noble spirits among the dominant race that tried to struggle for the rights of humanity and justice, or sordid and cowardly ones among the dominated that aided [ 36 ] the debasement of their own country.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Such are the cases in which we say that fear, indignation, joy, or sorrow are communicated.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Happy am I, that have deserved to have joy of such a consort, and not to go basely alone to the gods of Tartarus!
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Brahmans and Pandits say that if on starting on a journey one sees a corpse, it is a good omen.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

This common sense is the judge or moderator of the rest, by whom we discern all differences of objects; for by mine eye I do not know that I see, or by mine ear that I hear, but by my common sense, who judgeth of sounds and colours: they are but the organs to bring the species to be censured; so that all their objects are his, and all their offices are his.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The "Rosy Death" had decomposed and poisoned all the healthful juices of society and corrupted the very heart of the human race--morality, faith, and philosophy, everything which makes men manly, had gradually perished unobserved in the thoughtless whirl.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

As a matter of course, the arms of the jarls of Sutherland are carved on one side of the stone, and on the other are the arms of the town—a horse-shoe.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

I had a scheme for buying back my yacht, the jolly old Siren, and cruising about the Mediterranean for a month or so.
— from A Damsel in Distress by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

They had not taken the trouble to understand the movement, to discriminate between its aspects, to put themselves frankly into communication with its leading persons, to judge with the knowledge and justice of scholars and clergymen of its designs and ways.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

The people allowed themselves to be deprived of the belief in Jupiter and Juno, of sacrifices and ceremonies, but not of the games, the festivities, the dances and banquets, by which those ceremonies had been accompanied; and the Church was at all times wise and tolerant enough to suffer what she could not prevent.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn

Jacob ordered strawberries and cream, ice cream and champagne cup with reckless prodigality.
— from Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Thousands of books and pamphlets have been written to convict the Jesuits of such a conspiracy, many of [36] them far more convincing than these protocols.
— from The Jew and American Ideals by John Spargo

On the abstract justice of such a course we need not dwell.
— from A Vindication of England's Policy with Regard to the Opium Trade by Charles Reginald Haines

And therefore he takes upon himself the judgment of sacrifices, and condemns and slays his brother as a heretic.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

My Philosopher's meaning is plain, and, as usual, good; but not even I, who have less reason to laugh at him than anybody, can gravely accept the juxtaposition of suffering and cigars.
— from Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 by George Meredith