George on Iroquois peace embassy 486 Lowrey , Maj. George , signer of act of union 136 Lowrey , Col. John , part taken by, in Creek war 90 , 91 , 97 Lyttleton , Governor, negotiations with Cherokee by (1758–59) 42 [ Contents ] M McCarthy, W. C. , East Cherokee agent 174 – 175 McCarthy, W. C. on East Cherokee condition (1875) 175 MacCormack , ——, collection by xxix McCulloch on De Soto’s route 193 McDowell , ——, defeat of Ferguson by 57 McDowell , —— on Ohio Cherokee 79 McFarland , Colonel, expedition under 75 McGee , Dr W. J., memoir by xliii–xliv McGee , Dr W. J., work of xx, xxi, xxix McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , endeavor to form Indian confederacy by 72 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , life of 209 – 210 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , ransom of Mrs. Brown by 65 McGillviray , Gen. Alexander , remonstrance against Creek raids to 67 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on Ani′ Kuta′nĭ 393 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on farewell address of Floyd Welch 226 – 227 MacGowan , Dr D. J. on Ketoowah society 226 McIntosh , Gen. William , attitude of, during Creek war 89 , 90 McIntosh , Gen. William , killing of 134 McIntosh , Gen. William , life of 216 – 217 McIntosh , Gen. William , removal of Creeks after killing of 385 McIntosh , Gen. William , treaty signed by 61 McKenney, Thomas , Chief of Indian Bureau (1825) 111 McKenney, Thomas on Cherokee government 107 McKenney and Hall on battle of Horseshoe bend 96 McKenney and Hall on Cherokee declaration of war against Creeks (1813) 89 McKenney and Hall on invention of Cherokee syllabary 110 McKenney and Hall on killing of Doublehead 85 McKenney and Hall on number of Cherokee in Creek war 96 McKenney and Hall on Osage-Cherokee troubles 137 McKenney and Hall on Prophet’s mission among Cherokee 89 McKenney and Hall on Sequoya’s ancestry 109 McKenney and Hall on Tahchee 141 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , effort to cause Cherokee removal by 105 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , emigration under direction of 103 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , figures of, on Cherokee emigration 106 McMinn , Gov. Joseph , treaty signed by 103 McNair, David , grave of 221 – 222 Magic in Cherokee myth 243 , 246 , 255 , 277 – 278 , 279 , 320 , 374 – 375 , 393 – 394 , 434 , 501 , 502 , passim Magic , Indian practice of 495 Mahican , association of, with Delawares 494 Mahican , modern representatives of 498 Mahican , separation of, from Delawares 19 Maine , work in xiii, xvii–xviii Maize , see Corn .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Her father, of course, was startled out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him the sight of this and all its noise.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

But she could not entirely govern the orbits of her satellites, however regular her own movements, and her old nature asserted itself in her children.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Allworthy was likewise greatly liberal to Jones on the marriage, and hath omitted no instance of shewing his affection to him and his lady, who love him as a father.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

‘If any man come after me and hate not his father and mother, and his own (natural) life also, he cannot be my disciple.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

With him along is come the mother-queen, An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife; With her the Lady Blanch of Spain; With them a bastard of the king's deceas'd; And all th' unsettled humours of the land- Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens- Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, To make a hazard of new fortunes here.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Or if we do applaud, honour and admire, quota pars , how small a part, in respect of the whole world, never so much as hears our names, how few take notice of us, how slender a tract, as scant as Alcibiades' land in a map!
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Is madame at home or not?” “Madame has been out for a walk but has returned now,” answered the waiter.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I ordered the jolly-boat to be hoisted out, and we tried the current, which was found to set north-east by north, at the rate of half a mile an hour, or nearly.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

Then there was signaling between the Montauk and her own neighbor destroyer about sailing formation in the danger zone.
— from Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

And if in the days to come your thoughts ever do revert to me, I pray you think of me as happy or nearly so, owning no master save my whim, bending my back to none, keeping my hat on my head when I choose, and ending my days in a ditch or in a palace, the carver of mine own destiny, the sole arbiter of my will.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I believe you went East with that two thousand dollars and won a stake at gentleman's poker; and then you come back, with your chest all throwed out, and get mysterious as hell over nothing." "Well, what do you care?" answered Rimrock scornfully.
— from Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

Take, for example, the forced resignation of a stenographer, at the end of a session, in order that the speaker of the House of Representatives might appoint his own nephew to the place for the vacation , during which there were no duties.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, June 1884, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

Situated as it is, so near the outlet of the Magdalena River, it is destined to {232} increase in size and commerce, and to become to Colombia what New York is to the United States—the great commercial emporium of the republic; Aspinwall and Panama, free ports, being more a highway of nations than a part of this country.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

904 The rate of flight of the eider duck ( Anas mollissima ) is said to be ninety miles an hour; and Bachman says that the hawk, wild pigeon ( Columba migratoria ), and several species of wild ducks, in North America, fly at the rate of forty miles an hour, or nearly a thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Charles IX was urged to mete out the same penalty to his brother, the marshals Cossé and Montmorency, and Henry of Navarre.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

“Here, give me a hand,” ordered Nancy.
— from Nancy Dale, Army Nurse by Ruby Lorraine Radford