In 1739 he married a German girl of the Mohawk valley, who died after bearing him three children.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And the red sunset threw a mystic light upon the waters, and tinged with fire the towering woods, and made a golden glory of the piled-up clouds.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The anti-Shôgun party made a great grievance of this journey, and fell foul of the government for having permitted the "barbarians" to approach so near to the sacred capital, Fushimi being practically a suburb of Kiôto, and the Satsuma people put in a written memorial on the subject, more to annoy the Tycoon's government than as a mark of real hostility to us.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The bighorn sheep feed much in the caverns of the Rocky Mountains, eating a kind of moss and grass growing on the floors of these caves, and also a peculiar soft, sweet-tasting "clay", of which the natives also are fond.
— from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston

In the latter was related, with a charming naturalness and spirit, the elopement, to get married at Gretna Green, of two little children of the mature respective ages of eight and seven.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

There was a legend, universally believed, that an early Pope, Silvester (314-335) healed the Emperor Constantine of leprosy, and that the Emperor, in gratitude, made a great grant of territory to the Pope.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

[Pg xxv] mation and good government of the people in the Lahore (Civil) Command.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

Marege, a Gascon gentleman of the Prince's suite, was present, but had been ill.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 02 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

When she bent her deep eyes upon him they seemed to speak of safety and freedom and to make a green garden of the future.
— from Nona Vincent by Henry James

One of the entertainments for which the Opera-house was used in 1723 attracted the notice of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, whose presentment follows: "Whereas there has been lately published a proposal for six Ridotto's or Balls to be managed by subscription at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket; we the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex, sworn to enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King and the body of this County, conceiving the same to be wicked and illegal practices, and which, if not timely Page 158 [158] suppressed, may promote debauchery, lewdness, and ill conversation; from a just abhorrence therefore of such sort of assemblies, which we apprehend are contrary to law and good manners, and give great offence to His Majesty's good and virtuous subjects; we do present the same, and recommend them to be prosecuted and suppressed as common nuisances to the publick, as nurseries of lewdness, extravagance, and immorality, and also a reproach and scandal to civil government."
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm

Then the serious mood came back as the girl stared out at the meadows and growing grain of the "Eden" farmland.
— from The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter

"However this may be, Don Simon de Auda returned to Spain after the peace, was rewarded for his zeal by being made Privy Councillor of Castile, and was sent back to Manila as Governor General of the Philippines.
— from The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth