There were Andover and Exeter with their memories of New England dead—large, college-like democracies; St. Mark's, Groton, St. Regis'—recruited from Boston and the Knickerbocker families of New York; St. Paul's, with its great rinks; Pomfret and St. George's, prosperous and well-dressed; Taft and Hotchkiss, which prepared the wealth of the Middle West for social success at Yale; Pawling, Westminster, Choate, Kent, and a hundred others; all milling out their well-set-up, conventional, impressive type, year after year; their mental stimulus the college entrance exams; their vague purpose set forth in a hundred circulars as “To impart a Thorough Mental, Moral, and Physical Training as a Christian Gentleman, to fit the boy for meeting the problems of his day and generation, and to give a solid foundation in the Arts and Sciences.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I merely read a few lines of this Appendix 2, which is a letter from the German Military Command to the Ministry of National Economy dated 28 June 1943: “More especially during the month of March, which you particularly mention, it has been impossible to allot the publishers any quantity from current production, as this was needed for urgent propaganda purposes.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

Dimittere autem rancorem et maliciam omnino necessitatis est, dimittere vero actionem et emendam opus est consilii.
— from The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert

While he was planning for a great stroke, and calling out the militia of New England, D'Estaing was making ready to relieve Georgia, and a few days after Washington wrote his second letter, the French and Americans assaulted the British works at Savannah, and were repulsed with heavy losses.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

We should make our notch every day on our characters, as Robinson Crusoe on his stick.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

“An you know what I'm gwine do with my other nickel every day?
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

" Besides these important ruins, there are a great many others not especially different from those previously described.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

It is certainly not the mark of Nicholas Emanuel Deutsch of Bern, for he died several years before 1548, the date on several of the cuts with the mark H.R. M.D. in Munster’s Cosmography, and which date evidently relates to the year in which the artist made the drawing.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Our present inquiry concerns the militia of New England during the fifty years from 1790 to 1840.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

"He chiefly aims at making a mystery of everything, but so many people not engaged in trade make a mystery of nothing every day, that he is sadly handicapped.
— from The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair (Shafto Justin Adair) Fitz-Gerald