The squabbles in Richmond, the howls in Charleston, and the disintegration elsewhere, are all good omens for us; we must not relax one iota, but, on the contrary, pile up our efforts: I world, ere this, have been off, but we had terrific rains, which caught us in motion, and nearly drowned some of the troops in the rice-fields of the Savannah, swept away our causeway (which had been carefully corduroyed), and made the swamps hereabout mere lakes of slimy mud.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Men who have spent their lives in generous and holy contemplation for the human race; those who, by a certain heavenliness of spirit, have purified the atmosphere around them, and thus supplied a medium in which good and high things may be projected and performed—give to these a lofty place among the benefactors of mankind, although no deed, such as the world calls deeds, may be recorded of them.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

chaussée , m. , la partie d'une maison au niveau du sol.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Unsa man ang náa dihà sa unáhan?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

small triggerfish with a protruding mouth and no dorsal spine.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They had the air of a rough tribunal; Jacques One and Two sitting on the old pallet-bed, each with his chin resting on his hand, and his eyes intent on the road-mender; Jacques Three, equally intent, on one knee behind them, with his agitated hand always gliding over the network of fine nerves about his mouth and nose; Defarge standing between them and the narrator, whom he had stationed in the light of the window, by turns looking from him to them, and from them to him.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But the arms of a man are never depicted suspended from a true lover's knot.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It will be as much as nine dollars, so you see you are sure of getting back your money."
— from Mark Mason's Victory by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

And take me for your kind adviser, And only think of growing wiser; Then, when you meet again, no doubt, Something you'll have to talk about, And need not get into a passion, And quarrel in this vulgar fashion.
— from Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

It followed me one day to one of the underground railway stations, and would get into a compartment with me, which led to a lawsuit that made a nine days' sensation in the legal world.
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

When I came to myself again, Niels Daae stood beside me with an empty water bottle, the contents of which were dripping off my person and off the sofa upon which I was lying.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

Many a nefarious deed stuck to his hands, but not one that had not been committed with all possible caution and secured against any afterclaps of the law.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

He had, nevertheless (April 19, 1776), advised Congress 'to engage them on our side,' as 'they must, and no doubt soon will, take an active part either for or against us;' and the Congress itself had, on June 3rd—not a month before the Declaration of Independence was actually accepted—passed a resolution to raise 2,000 Indians for the Canadian service, which, shortly afterwards, was extended by another (referred to in a letter of Washington's of June 20), authorizing General Washington to employ such Indians as he should take into the service in any place where he might think that they would be most useful, and to offer them bounties, not indeed for scalps, but for every officer and soldier of the King's troops whom they might capture in the Indian country or on the frontiers of the colonies.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

He was naturally mobbed, and never dared stir out in the day time, but sometimes slunk out at night.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

But during all this time Eleanor by no means forgot Mr. Arabin, nor did she forget Mr. Slope.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope