The method adopted to perform this work, was to burn and destroy all the bridges and culverts, and for a long distance, at places, to tear up the track and bend the rails.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

DEAR GENERAL: We reached this place yesterday at noon; Hardee, as usual, retreating across the Cape Fear, burning his bridges; but our pontoons will be up to-day, and, with as little delay as possible, I will be after him toward Goldsboro'.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There are indeed deaths corresponding to the two Angels—the death that comes by lingering disease and pain, and that which comes by old age.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged without injuring the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

'This gentleman, Mr Lightwood, is on that business.' 'Mr Lightwood?' During a pause, Mortimer and the stranger confronted each other.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Every society lady spends her life in boasting of her supposed sensibility, when in reality she cares for no one but herself.] and have so over-stimulated their appetites, that you cannot rely even on the most clearly proved affection; they can no longer display a preference which secures you against the fear of a rival.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name”; and he leaned down and plucked it.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

Well, in short, surely you would not be offended at my involuntary impulse to go up to you?..." "Stop, that's enough, don't talk of it," said the girl, looking down, and pressing my hand.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If all parties were agreeable, Martha and Jem were to be married with as little delay as possible, and they were to live on in Miss Matty’s present abode; the sum which the Cranford ladies had agreed to contribute annually being sufficient to meet the greater part of the rent, and leaving Martha free to appropriate what Miss Matty should pay for her lodgings to any little extra comforts required.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Everything that could be required was at length discovered, and placed in the boat alongside, except one thing.
— from Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Ah," said Mrs. Carbuncle, inspecting the little dish, and putting two and two together; "he's got it cheap, no doubt,—at the place where they commissioned him to buy the plate and candlesticks for the church; but at £3 16s.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Mus., No. 90832 ; photo, by Messrs. Mansell & Co. It is interesting to note that Kish and the king of Kish represented the most dreaded enemies of Lagash, at least during a portion of the reign of Eannatum.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

In animals there have also been noticed salivation, amaurosis, unsteady gait, dragging of the hind legs, dyspnœa, and paralysis of the breathing centres.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Patty's face was flushed, her lips dry and parched, and her eyes feverishly bright.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

In their entertainments they made lavish display and provided various amusements.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

I at once resolved to marry Lady Dudley and put an end to the miserable struggle which threatened to exhaust my sensibilities and destroy by these repeated shocks the delicate delights which had hitherto resembled the flower of fruits.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The magistrates of police have very wisely ordered that meat should be a little dearer at Paris during this time, and that the profit should be given to the hospitals.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

THE NAYLOR COMPANY Book Publishers of the Southwest SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS iv 4th Printing Copyright ©, 1962, by Loraine Daly and Pat Reumert
— from The Padre Island Story by Pat Reumert

He must, therefore, have lived during a period of Greek history which was characterized by great intellectual activity; for he had, as his contemporaries, Pericles the famous statesman; the poets Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Pindar; the philosopher Socrates, with his disciples Xenophon and Plato; the historians Herodotus and Thucydides; and Phidias the unrivalled sculptor.
— from Fathers of Biology by Charles McRae