By the act of July 28, 1866, the peace establishment was fixed at one general (Grant), one lieutenant-general (Sherman), five major-generals (Halleck, Meade, Sheridan, Thomas, and Hancock), ten brigadiers (McDowell, Cooke, Pope, Hooker, Schofield, Howard, Terry, Ord, Canby, and Rousseau), ten regiments of cavalry, five of artillery, and forty-five of infantry, admitting of an aggregate force of fifty-four thousand six hundred and forty-one men.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They tried to be kind to her, but she only turned her face away when Mrs. Crawford attempted to kiss her, and held herself stiffly when Mr. Crawford patted her shoulder.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour; observing, that 'he was thirty years in preparing his History, and that he employed a man to point it for him; as if (laughing) another man could point his sense better than himself.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She rose, and before her mother could prevent her, she had rushed to the window, crying,— “Phoebus!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

At the office all the morning, where comes my Lord Brunkard with his patent in his hand, and delivered it to Sir J. Minnes and myself, we alone being there all the day, and at noon I in his coach with him to the ‘Change, where he set me down; a modest civil person he seems to be, but wholly ignorant in the business of the Navy as possible, but I hope to make a friend of him, being a worthy man.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Take in my card, please," he said.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Ann tripped lightly upstairs, and Mr. Cameron, pushing his spectacles high up on his bald forehead, looked with an anxious glance to right and left.
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

"Yonder's my corn patch," he said.
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck

They even became affectionate in the course of half an hour, and mutual confidence proved how strangely their tastes were in unison.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Mr. Child pressed his suit earnestly.
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

She would have received many costly presents had she not made it known that she would accept nothing but flowers.
— from Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Huret

Venezuela may have been altogether at fault in the transaction out of which this demand arose; the amount which England exacted may not have been unreasonable; and the method of its assessment, though not the most considerate possible, has support in precedent; and even the threat of a naval force may sometimes be justified in enforcing unheeded demands.
— from Presidential Problems by Grover Cleveland