Under General Orders No. 100, 1863, men and squads of men who, without commission, without being part or portion of the regularly organized hostile army, fight occasionally only, and with intermittent returns to their homes and avocations, and frequent assumption of the semblance of peaceful pursuits, divesting themselves of the character and appearance of soldiers; armed prowlers seeking to cut telegraph wires, destroy bridges and the like, etc., are not entitled to the protection of the laws of war and may be shot on sight.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In cutting it the only thought was the requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Sometimes for half an hour at a stretch he would sit silently gazing at the saffron-red, downy, wrinkled face of the sleeping baby, watching the movements of the frowning brows, and the fat little hands, with clenched fingers, that rubbed the little eyes and nose.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Wyatt’s three rooms were in the after-cabin, which was separated from the main one by a slight sliding door, never locked even at night.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But I have, since last evening, a new hope.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

low enough and not too low, style easy, rather colloquial (over and over again saying "you" to Whitman who sat opposite,) sometimes markedly impassion'd, once or twice humorous—amid his whole speech, from interior fires and volition, pulsating and swaying like a first-class Andalusian dancer.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Buck was no less eager, and no less cautious, as he likewise circled back and forth for the advantage.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

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— from The Gayton Scholarship: A School Story by Herbert Hayens

The father that I loved so well; the father that I never loved enough, and never knew; the Benefactor whom I first began to reverence and love, because he had such sympathy for me; All are here in you.
— from The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens

Out of ninety-eight species of mammals contemporary with early man in Europe, forty-one Fig. 191. —Bone Harpoon (Palæocosmic), from Périgord Cavern. are wholly or locally extinct, and none have been introduced except those brought by man himself.
— from The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, John William, Sir

I've wasted yours long enough, and now, if I can't bring him home, I'll stop with him until we both make good.”
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss

In the lower entry a number of people sat at little tables hung on hinges along the wall, and just large enough to hold the plates and beer-mugs.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

[35] I like your plan of teaching by letter exceedingly: and not only so, but have myself adopted it largely, with the help of an intelligent under-master, whose operations, however, so far from interfering with, you will much facilitate, if you can bring this literary way of teaching into more accepted practice.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

[ Contents ] [ Contents ] CELTIC FOLKLORE J. RHŶS [ Contents ] HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK [ Contents ] CELTIC FOLKLORE WELSH AND MANX BY JOHN RHŶS, M.A., D.Litt. HON.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

Both historians unite in stating that after their retreat to the West of the Mississippi, Lubois erected at Natchez near the brow of the bluffs, the terraced Fort Rosalie,—the remains of which were plainly visible when Monette wrote, but which, when Claiborne's history was written, had been largely effaced by the great landslide.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

I don't know how 't 'll be, Sam,—folks is sim'lar to de cocoa-grass, whut grows up mighty peart, tell 'long come somebody wid a hoe to slosh it down,—but ef you libs long enough, an' nuffin happens, you'll keep on habbin a buff-day ebry
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 07, May 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various