For a few minutes she was silent, and I could see was struggling to suppress the tears my unusual conduct had occasioned.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar
[332] Nothing [Pg 233] more unfortunate could have occurred.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
In famine or in sickness, a man unconsciously consumes his own flesh.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
My uncle cast her out."
— from Nelson the Newsboy; Or, Afloat in New York by Alger, Horatio, Jr.
I remember that one of my brothers was a Captain in the Gunners, that another of them fought as a volunteer in the first Boer War; that my uncle, Captain Hind, of the Bengal Fusiliers, fought in the Mutiny and in the Crimean War, and his son at Chitral, and that I have one nephew in Kitchener's Army and one in the West Lancashire Hussars; and that three generations of solid sugar-planters and ship-owners cannot separate me from my forefathers, who seem to have been fighting all the time.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
I understand now, being much older and abler to take a just view of things, that if my uncle could have obtained his discharge he would have been unwilling to take it.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice
The post was occupied by a force of about 500 men under Colonel Hawkins, of the 7th Tennessee Union cavalry.
— from Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners. by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
He had been formally forgiven and received by the society which (however Fanny Eliott might explain away its action) had most unmistakably cast him out.
— from The Helpmate by May Sinclair
The most unhappy consequences have occasionally followed the use of confectionary, when poisoned in this manner.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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