American boys should study this great man, for he loved our country, and took our Republic as the pattern for France.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

General Halleck was right in his estimate of East Tennessee as a strategic field essential to the Union service, the gate-way to Kentucky, to the Union line of communication, and the Ohio River; but General Grant found it so far from his lines of active operations that it could not be worked without interrupting plans of campaigns for the summer, and giving his adversary opportunity to dictate the work of the year.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

The notes taken by Leslie and embodied in his Life of Constable are the only record we have apart from the abstract of the first lecture.
— from Constable by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

217 shows a dog harnessed to a travois, made of two shaft poles; the harness consists of a padded collar similar to those used in Northern Quebec for sled dogs, and a cincha of leather or canvas and traces of rope or thong.
— from The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard

As for the old virtues, such as love of children and the ordinary round of domestic duty, they simply bored her.
— from Beatrice by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

They have a leader called a taiyón who is generally the largest deer-owner of the band, and he decides all such questions as the location of camps and time of removal from place to place; but he has no other power, and must refer all graver questions of individual rights and general obligations to the members of the band collectively.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

But al this diligence and letters of Cortes and the other rulers preuailed not, he seing this, set at libertie the priest that was brought prisoner, and sente him vnto Naruaez , with certaine riche collers of gold, and other iewels with a letter, wherein he wrote, that he was more gladder of his comming in that fléete than any other, for the friendship and olde acquaintaunce that had bene betwixt them, desiring him that they mought talke and cōferre togither, alone, for to take order to prohibite wars, sedition, bloudshedde and disquietnesse among them, beyng of one natiō and brethren, requestyng him to shew his cōmission from the king vnto him, or vnto the counsell of Vera Crux , and he would willingly obey it as reason did require: and if he had not brought any such commission, yet he would make some honest agrement with him.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

The easy smile faded from Jack's face, and was succeeded by a look of concern and then of resignation.
— from Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte

When our letters were divulged, some man began to reason whether of conscience it would be right to make war upon us, considering that we offered due obedience to the authority, and required nothing but liberty of conscience, and that our religion and actions should be tried by the Word of God.
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox