The student may, without tax and without price, have access, in the libraries of Congress and of the several departments, to books of every nature and kind; and the museums of natural history are rapidly approaching a standard of comparison with the best of the world.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He did not bear his blushing honors modestly; few of a right arm that indefinite locality known as “the middle of next week,” is something that the possessor can as little resist showing as can a girl her first solitaire ring.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

To him that will well consider it, idle speaking is precisely the beginning of all Hollowness, Halfness, Infidelity (want of Faithfulness); it is the genial atmosphere in which rank weeds of every kind attain the mastery over noble fruits in man's life, and utterly choke them out: one of the most crying maladies of these days, and to be testified against, and in all ways to the uttermost withstood.
— from Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 by Charles Wesley Emerson

Maspero's Histoire ancienne , p. 382, may also be consulted upon the character of the Ethiopian kingdom and the monuments of Napata.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

Toddle assured him grandly, shaking his [Pg 287] head as who should conduct of that kind a thousand miles off—" nut me, Post!
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

When this was explained to the Mexican, his brow contracted still further, but rather with inquisitiveness than embarrassment: "I am Olin-pilli," (that is, Olin the Lord, or Lord Olin,) he replied, "the speaker of wise things to the king, and the mouth of nobles."
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

The Ethnological Museum of the city, better known as the Museum of Northern Antiquities, is generally considered to be the most remarkable institution of its class in Europe.
— from Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

Take, for instance, what is so commonly called the roar of Niagara, but which ought to be known as the music of Niagara, first at the Rapids and then the Falls.
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

For nearly three hundred miles,—from the inner boundaries of the delta to within a few hours' journey of the cataracts,—the silt and sand rest on what is known as the "marine" or nummulitic limestone,—a formation of great extent, for it runs into the Nubian desert on the one hand, and into the Libyan desert on the other; and which, though it abounds in the animalcules of the European chalk, is held to belong, in at least its upper beds, which are charged with nummulites, to the earlier Eocene.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

Modern research has tended to disprove the idea that the old Germans held a Yule feast at the winter solstice, and it is probable, as we shall see, that the specifically Teutonic Christmas customs come from a New Year and beginning-of-winter festival kept about the middle of November.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles