My own cap had also disappeared in the fright, and I was in a bad way for defence, and completely at a dead loss as to the bearings of the camp.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
His method of charting his ANALYSIS differs in appearance from the chart on page 31 , but it is identical in PRINCIPLE AND EFFECT.
— from The Knack of Managing by Lewis K. Urquhart
It is the new man, formed on the model of Christ Himself, and displaying itself in all the most minute details of our daily history—in the family, in the business, in all our intercourse with our fellow-men, in our temper, spirit, style, deportment, all.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh
They carried home wonderful stories of necklaces set with pearls as big as peas and worn commonly by the Indian maidens, of countless hares and deer in the woods, of delicious grapes, cucumbers and melons that grew wild on the vines, and of rich forests of oak trees that grew larger and better than those of England.
— from Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
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